Independent, dated, practical guidance on keeping a website fast, secure and findable as AI changes how people search — for owners who run a site and developers who fix them.
Three guides that answer the questions we hear most: a slow site, the AI crawlers in your logs, and what to do about either.
AI Overviews, ChatGPT search and Perplexity cite sources differently — here is what each vendor documents versus what is guesswork, and what is actually worth doing.
Blocking 'AI' wholesale usually blocks the bots that cite you while doing nothing about the ones that fetch on a user's behalf. Decide per-bot instead.
Six seconds feels like 'rebuild everything', but it usually is not. A triage order that finds the dominant cause before you spend money.
