https://seomadman.com Recurring data reports on search volatility, AI answer coverage and index behaviour. en https://seomadman.com/reports/canonical-tag-adoption-web-almanac-2025 https://seomadman.com/reports/canonical-tag-adoption-web-almanac-2025 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez The 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter puts rel=canonical on 68% of desktop and 67% of mobile pages, up from 65%, with mismatches under 1%. reports technical-seo indexing https://seomadman.com/reports/cloudflare-ai-training-crawler-share-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/cloudflare-ai-training-crawler-share-2026 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Cloudflare reports AI training made up 52% of identified crawler requests in June 2026, up from 22% in Spring 2025, with search crawling shrinking. reports ai-search technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/desktop-search-click-distribution-datos-q4-2025 https://seomadman.com/reports/desktop-search-click-distribution-datos-q4-2025 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Datos and SparkToro's Q4 2025 clickstream shows 24.5% of US desktop Google searches ended with no click in December, versus 25.1% a year earlier. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/inp-good-scores-by-site-rank-2025 https://seomadman.com/reports/inp-good-scores-by-site-rank-2025 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez The 2025 Web Almanac's INP data: 77% of mobile sites have good INP, popular sites trail at 63%, and mobile home pages beat inner pages 80% to 69%. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/llms-txt-fetch-counts-by-ai-crawler https://seomadman.com/reports/llms-txt-fetch-counts-by-ai-crawler Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez EZY Research's 12-week server-log panel shows OpenAI and Anthropic crawlers fetching llms.txt in single digits while pulling robots.txt thousands of times. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-overview-citation-source-overlap https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-overview-citation-source-overlap Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez BrightEdge's own year-long tracking: only 17% of AI Overview citations also rank in the organic top 10, flat since last year, with wide swings by industry. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-referral-traffic-by-industry-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-referral-traffic-by-industry-2026 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Similarweb measured 770.7 million monthly AI referral visits worldwide, up 117.4% year over year, led by marketplaces and news. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/core-web-vitals-by-cms-platform-2025 https://seomadman.com/reports/core-web-vitals-by-cms-platform-2025 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez The 2025 Web Almanac's CMS chapter breaks Core Web Vitals pass rates down by platform: Duda at 85%, Wix up 14 points to 74%, WordPress flat at 45%. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/schema-org-type-adoption-web-almanac-2024 https://seomadman.com/reports/schema-org-type-adoption-web-almanac-2024 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez The 2024 Web Almanac breaks JSON-LD down by schema.org type: WebSite tops out at 12.73% of mobile pages, Organization at 7.16%, Product at just 0.77%. reports structured-data technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/serp-volatility-by-category-september-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/serp-volatility-by-category-september-2026 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Semrush Sensor's live index reads 2.1 out of 10 for mid-September 2026, but News and Finance run far hotter than Science or Health. reports core-updates technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/google-ranking-updates-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/google-ranking-updates-2026 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Eight confirmed updates, with Google's own start dates and rollout durations, and what the pattern says about when to judge a decline in your data. reports core-updates search-console https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-chatbot-market-share-trackers-compared https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-chatbot-market-share-trackers-compared Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez StatCounter, Similarweb, Sensor Tower and OpenAI itself all published a 2026 ChatGPT usage figure. None of the four is measuring the same thing. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/organic-ctr-by-position-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/organic-ctr-by-position-2026 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Three trackers measured 2026 organic CTR by position and reported position 1 anywhere from 27.6% to 39.8%, because none used the same method. reports technical-seo ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/llms-txt-adoption-tracker-comparison https://seomadman.com/reports/llms-txt-adoption-tracker-comparison Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Five independent trackers measured llms.txt adoption in 2026 and reported numbers from 7.4% to 28%, because none counted the same thing. reports ai-search technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/confirmed-update-frequency-2015-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/confirmed-update-frequency-2015-2026 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez 87 confirmed major Google updates since 2015, counted year by year, next to Google's own figure for total changes, and why the two must stay separate. reports core-updates https://seomadman.com/reports/mobile-first-indexing-completion-status https://seomadman.com/reports/mobile-first-indexing-completion-status Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Tracing Google's mobile-first indexing announcements from 2016 to the 2023 completion notice, and its documentation on mobile-desktop content parity. reports technical-seo indexing https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-overviews-serp-prevalence-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-overviews-serp-prevalence-2026 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Semrush's own tracking: 6.49% of keywords in January 2025, a July peak near 24.61%, then 15.69% in November - the real trend, not a snapshot. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/spam-policy-enforcement-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/spam-policy-enforcement-2026 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez From the May 2026 spam-policy rewrite to the August spam update, tracing enforcement against mass-produced, low-value content across 2026. reports core-updates technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/discover-technical-eligibility-requirements https://seomadman.com/reports/discover-technical-eligibility-requirements Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Google's Discover eligibility page sets an exact image-size floor and a named list of content policies. Here is what it says, word for word. reports content-strategy https://seomadman.com/reports/google-lens-visual-search-growth https://seomadman.com/reports/google-lens-visual-search-growth Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Google's own dated numbers: 12 billion Lens searches a month in June 2023, nearly 20 billion by October 2024 - and why the 22%/26% claims don't check out. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/redirect-link-equity-retention-estimates https://seomadman.com/reports/redirect-link-equity-retention-estimates Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Google has never published a percentage for how much link equity a 301 redirect passes. The 90-99% figure in circulation comes from somewhere else. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/meta-description-rewrite-rate-compared https://seomadman.com/reports/meta-description-rewrite-rate-compared Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Portent, Ahrefs and Search Engine Journal each measured how often Google rewrites a meta description in 2020: 71%, 62.78% and over 70%, weeks apart. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-crawler-blocking-rate-trend-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-crawler-blocking-rate-trend-2026 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Live HTTP data from Cloudflare's network shows AI crawler 403 rates rising through 2026, distinct from counting robots.txt disallow rules. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-citation-rate-by-content-format https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-citation-rate-by-content-format Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Five precise stats on AI citation rates by content format circulate online. Two trace to real studies. Three do not survive verification. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/page-experience-update-timeline https://seomadman.com/reports/page-experience-update-timeline Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Google's own dated posts trace the page experience rollout from 2020 to its 2022 desktop finish, and what the 2026 docs now drop. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-overview-traffic-decline-estimates-compared https://seomadman.com/reports/ai-overview-traffic-decline-estimates-compared Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Studies put the AI Overview traffic hit from 24% to 80%. We traced seven quoted figures to source; four hold up, and they measure different things. reports ai-search https://seomadman.com/reports/amp-traffic-impact-cases-compared https://seomadman.com/reports/amp-traffic-impact-cases-compared Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Independent.ie gained 55% mobile traffic on AMP. Kinsta lost 59% of its leads. Here is what really happened across five documented, named case studies. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/schema-org-vocabulary-growth-2026 https://seomadman.com/reports/schema-org-vocabulary-growth-2026 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Schema.org's own release notes put the vocabulary at 823 types and 1,529 properties as of version 30.0, alongside a new Google-backed usage dataset. reports structured-data technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/google-review-fraud-enforcement-scale https://seomadman.com/reports/google-review-fraud-enforcement-scale Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Google's own Maps blog states 2025 review-fraud enforcement scale, and its April 2026 update bans staff review quotas and naming employees in reviews. reports technical-seo https://seomadman.com/reports/penske-media-google-antitrust-timeline https://seomadman.com/reports/penske-media-google-antitrust-timeline Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Hafez Penske Media sued Google over AI Overviews in 2025. The dated record: the complaint, Google's dismissal motion, Penske's opposition, and an EU complaint. reports ai-search