Number of domains discovered.
Number of links discovered
Number of root linking domains discovered.
Now here’s the key point, and it’s a really big one. There are more URLs, domains, links, and root linking domains unique to desktop crawl results than are shared between desktop and mobile crawlers. australia number data orange bar is always longer than the gray one. This means that up until the second level of crawl, most link relationships, pages, and domain indexes differ. This is huge. This is a fundamental change to the link graph as we know it.
And now for the big question, what we all care about the most – external links.
Overall, 63% of external links are unique to desktop crawlers. In the mobile-only crawling world, the total number of external links was halved.
What is happening at the micro level?
So, what really causes this huge crawl discrepancy? Well, we know it has something to do with some common shortcuts to making a site “mobile friendly,” including:
Subdomain versions of content that have fewer links or features.
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