SEO Pulse: 2MB Cutoff, Agentic Commerce, Core Update (60s recap)
Duration: 1:02 ·
Critical: When Googlebot truncates at 2MB, it passes the incomplete content to indexing as if it were the complete file. If your canonical tags, structured data, or key content sit below the cutoff, they are effectively invisible to Google.
Video summary
- Audit page sizes against the 2MB limit. Run a crawl of your highest-traffic pages and check raw HTML file sizes. Prioritize pages with inline scripts, embedded SVGs, or extensive review/comment sections. Move heavy CSS and JS to external files.
- Prepare for agentic commerce. If you sell products, ensure your schema.org Product markup is complete, your merchant feeds are accurate, and you're registered with Google Merchant Center. Investigate Shopify Agentic Storefronts if applicable.
- Assess core update impact , but wait until April 15. Google recommends one full week post-completion before comparing data. Set your baseline as pre-March 27 vs. post-April 8. Focus on click-based metrics given the ongoing GSC impressions correction.
- Fix site-level CWV issues. The full scoring change means your slowest templates are now a domain-wide liability. Identify pages with LCP above 2.5 seconds and prioritize them as site-health issues, not individual page problems.
- Recalibrate historical CTR reporting. If you reported CTR declines between May 2025 and April 2026, those numbers were based on inflated impression data. Flag this in any active dashboards or stakeholder reports.