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Framehole: PageSpeed 6.0 loophole for easy perfect score
- KingMob 6y agoI'm surprised Google allowed this hack. I wonder how long until they fix it?
- nathanyz 6y agoAs Google pushes forward with their new Web Vitals, they left one giant hole in how those are being calculated.
- phillipseamore 6y agoActual user metrics will likely negate this in search scoring.
- KingMob 6y agoMaybe for PageRank. But as long as the Lighthouse score is gameable, we're going to see a lot of web shops use these techniques to appease clients.
- phillipseamore 6y agoThat's likely. But even an idiot would likely notice the frames loading. But this will likely not game PageRank unless for very unpopular sites (which don't have enough actual user metrics).
- KingMob 6y agoGoogle posted an update saying that the problem is restricted to their local tools, and not PageRank, so that's good. But many places still use PageSpeed, and I wouldn't bet anything vital on clients noticing iframes.
- nathanyz 6y agoI agree that user metrics should show the inverse. The problem is that Pagespeed and the new Web Vitals are supposed to be a proxy of user metrics. So business owners will assume that a 100 Pagespeed score actually means a faster website. If the Pagespeed score doesn't represent the actual experience, then isn't that a failure of it's purpose?