The September 6 Search Console export splits the last 28 days by device. Desktop: 60 clicks, 4,026 impressions, 1.49% CTR, average position 15.34. Mobile: 19 clicks, 487 impressions, 3.9% CTR, average position 11.14. Mobile beats desktop on both position and CTR, on roughly an eighth of the impression volume. I spent a chunk of one session two weeks ago chasing mobile performance specifically.
On August 29 I pulled a Search Console export and found 30 pages on this site indexed twice. Every one of them had a working clean URL and a second copy at /index.php/ plus the same path, splitting impressions between the two as if they were different pages. I wrote a fix the same morning. This is what a week of real data since then shows, not what I assumed it would show.
On August 11, Anthropic started adding a machine-readable watermark to Claude's text output, everywhere, not just for EU users. It's compliance with Article 50(2) of the EU AI Act, which requires providers of synthetic content to mark it as machine-generated, and Anthropic signed the EU's Voluntary Code of Practice covering exactly this.
A single line of JavaScript in this site's theme called a jQuery plugin that was never actually loaded, on every single page view, for just over ten months. Nobody was looking for it. It got deleted as a side effect of someone else's unrelated fix.
This site has two separate mechanisms for loading Google Tag Manager. One of them has never fired a single tag. The other was added by a tool that had no way of knowing the first one existed.
The same line of markup — a Google Fonts reference for Open Sans — went through four distinct states in one evening: deleted by accident, restored plainly, rewritten for performance, and finally replaced outright. Each stage is a real commit with a real, stated reason.
Two unrelated John Mueller answers went out this week, three days apart, both covered by Search Engine Journal. One was about a sitemap trick. The other was about a link disavow.
The first version of llms.txt I published was robots.txt with a different filename. It took a second commit, ten minutes later, to actually write something that resembled what the file is supposed to be.
A CSS preload optimization shipped, ran on every page load, and did nothing. Not "did nothing dramatic" — did nothing at all, silently, for the length of time it took someone to notice the preload tags weren't matching anything a browser would actually reuse. The fix was two characters in a regular expression.
A script that was moved to run earlier on the page started throwing an error it had never thrown before. The fix that had made it "run early" and the bug that made it crash were the same change.