Indianapolis - Circa April 2017: Tesla Service Center. Tesla designs and manufactures the Model S electric sedan IV
Alan Clarke, Tesla’s long-time engineer will be leaving the company after 12 years with the company. During his time at the company, he undertook a couple of interesting projects which includes:
Model S Exterior Door Handles Concept Mechanism and first prototype design to prove out concept for production
Model X – Advanced Engineering, integration of front drive unit and rear drivetrain, integration of high voltage distribution, manufacturing of all closure panels
Advanced design of Front and Rear Suspension and Steering including Catia Kinematic Modeling for Model S
He started his career as a senior design engineer in 2009 and climbed up to become the director of new program engineering. During his last couple of years at Tesla, he worked on the Cyber Truck prototype which is yet to be released. He also led the architecture design for both Model 3 and Model Y.
At Ford, he will be joining Doug Field who was also at Tesla. Mr. Clarke will be joining Ford’s Advanced EV development group where he will be helping Ford push into the EV market.
The EV market is growing at a rapid pace with the help of governments who are envisioning a future where renewable energy will be the main staple behind many industries.
This year has been subpar for Tesla’s stock as the high-growth stock has been trading at a 22% decrease at the time of this writing.
As the EV market heats up and competitors who have the resources behind them to develop products, this might not be the last we’ll see an executive departing Tesla.
Affirm the buy now pay later company, saw a 21% drop in their share price as they accidentally tweeted out their results before the appointed time.
It seems to be a social media disaster for the company and they are currently seeing the impact of it. Before the event, the company was enjoying a 7% rise in share price and the stock was trading at approximately $82 per share.
After the “accidental” tweeting of the company’s second-quarter results, it drops to approximately $54 per share. The company went public in 2021 and has been trading at a 60% decrease in price at the time of writing. The second-quarter net loss stands at $159.7 million. Operating loss stands at $196.2 million.
The company saw a drastic increase in both net loss and operating loss respectively, a year ago they recorded a $26.6 million net loss and $26.8 million in operating loss a year earlier. Revenue rose to $361.0 million which is up from $204.0 million a year prior.
The company tried to clean up the publicity mess by admitting that it was indeed a mistake on their part.
Due to human error, a small portion of Affirm’s fiscal Q2 results were inadvertently tweeted from Affirm’s official Twitter account earlier today. Affirm has since issued its complete fiscal Q2 results, which are available at https://t.co/kQLTu8O9Vv.
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Meta the parent company of Facebook threatens to shut down their services in Europe if the European Commission passes its data privacy law. Despite the company’s threat which was revealed in its annual letter, EU officials remain unfazed.
The law that is expected to pass will ensure that users’ data in Europe will pass through European servers, be processed, and then be sent to Facebook’s servers in this case for example.
Within the report, the company stated, “If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs (standard contractual clauses) or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe.”
EU lawmaker Axel Voss took to Twitter and added that it would be the company’s loss if they do decide to leave. Despite the frenzy that this caused on social media, it seems as if it’s more bark than bite at this bite.
It’s impossible but it would be improbable for Facebook to leave Europe as they are currently at crossroads with their company as competitors are eating out their market share.
This law isn’t new as there have been rumors for some time that this will soon come to pass. Over the last decade, the European Commission has been slowly tightening the noose around the neck of large multi-national tech companies who they accuse of indulging monopolistic practices to drive out local competitors.
In this case, data privacy and governance are a topic they seemingly take seriously and expect new laws to pass in the near future.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SEPTEMBER 06: Peloton Co-Founder/CEO John Foley speaks onstage during Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 6, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
John Foley declared that he is venturing down as CEO. Spotify’s previous CFO Barry McCarthy will step into his role. Peloton which could be seen as a pandemic stock has been cooling off over the last year as bans are slowly lifting and life in society is coming back to some level of normality.
The firm is additionally eliminating 2,800 positions internationally, around 20% of its corporate labor force. Cuts will come at each level of the organization. It goes to show how far the company has fallen.
During the pandemic at its height, it was trading at $162.72 per share. As of this writing, its stock price is at $32.27 per share.
Despite the brave move by Mr. Foley to give up the seat, it was written in the stars. Investors were getting anxious over the company’s future and a fresh face at the helm with new ideas will probably steer the company in a new direction.
Blackwells Capital, an investment firm requests the board to terminate Foley and look to see if a buyer is out there for the company.
There have been rumors that large tech companies have been carefully circulating the brand to see if it was up for grabs. Foley came out with a statement addressing the matter, “We are open to exploring any opportunity that could create value for Peloton shareholders,”.
The biggest digital currency rose as much as 3% to $42,956, breaking through its 50-day moving average for the first time in 2 months.
“Bitcoin has broken some key levels and a downward-trending line here over the past few days and is showing signs of bullishness,” however it’s “being capped by the 50-DMA and needs to close above it,” said Vijay Ayyar, head of Asia-Pacific at Luno Pte. “The next stop from here is $46,000 to $47,000.”
Bitcoin’s rise above the technical mark goes hand in hand with the surprisingly good U.S. jobs report Friday closely following the solid returns from Amazon.com Inc.
The biggest digital money, which alongside Ether was supported by a heap of short liquidations on Friday“can make further upward progress in the weeks to come” given the technical breakout, said Fundstrat’s Mark Newton in a report. “Initial upside targets lie at $45,000 and then $51,100.”
It seems as if the sentiment among outsiders has been a bit more optimistic about the crypto market recently. The question of how long it will last is up to anybody’s interpretation as the industry is a wild west and things can turn bare tomorrow.
Jamaica, an island of almost 3 million people with most living below the poverty line. Statisticians love to gloss over the numbers and present what they often want us to see.
It’s easy to lie with statistics, but this is not a mathematical piece that is filled with formulas and notation. I am taking a jab at globalization, the utopian vision that was thrust onto our and most developing countries’ doorsteps that we never asked for.
The other day I was watching a documentary called “Life and Debt” which was based on Jamaica’s troubles with the IMF and how it affected Jamaica’s economy over the long haul.
It’s an interesting documentary that I will reference a lot throughout this passage. Enough of the babbling from my side let’s continue.
Globalization For All Its Worth
Like every new “world order”, oftentimes economists, scholars from various disciplines, politicians, government officials, and the oligarchs who run things planetarily get together and morph the word through their lends.
I believe that if they could have the power to shape the world into a square instead of a sphere, they would’ve done it without blinking.
I understand that lust for men throughout history is the idea of spreading certain ideologies and religions around the world and if you read the books, they will go to great lengths to let it be known.
Currently, they are pushing climate change and the idea of an electric society that is detached from the old age energy resources of oil and gas. While it seems romantic, it isn’t realistic yet, until there are substantial technological breakthroughs.
Check the stats of companies selling solar equipment and check their revenue numbers for example. Nevertheless, after sitting around with their friends, they decide it’s best to move in this direction.
A Tale of Two Parts
Ancient Beginnings
It’s hard to tell exactly when globalization started but experts point to the “Silk Road” to be the major point in history where globalization was in full effect. The Silk Road was a path between Rome and the Chinese empire, it was a way for them to trade goods during that time such as cotton.
It basically linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. One of the earliest trades was silk for horses. It performed well in the beginning and for most of the time was quite efficient, despite the intermittent wars and enemies who tried to disrupt this supply chain earlier on.
I also want to touch on the point that during this time, it wasn’t a large piece of both economies and others.
This first phase of globalization was largely based on two empires, China and Rome. Its decline was largely correlated to that of the two bilateral empires at that time.
Another wave of globalization swept the planet when the Middle East was one of the dominant powers at that time. They were mainly trading spices in a time when the Muslims dominated the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade.
Another phase came along which was pivotal even to us Caribbean and Latin American people. Within the 15th to 18th century, the Europeans had a resurgence and seek to impose their strength upon the planet.
Fueled by the energy to discover new lands and the spirit of Christopher Columbus, they somehow discovered the Americas and took advantage of it.
This was when the famous slave trade had started and Africans were brought to the Caribbean to help foster the expansion of sugar and various other items such as Potato, Tomato, and so on.
Europeans such as the Spanish, English, French, and others were the main players here and the ghost of the past still lingers within this region up until today despite over a hundred years since “slavery”.
This little history could be seen as the first part of globalization, you still have historians who would argue that this is still not globalization in the way we know today. But I will leave that up to the scholars.
Industrialization
The second part of globalization which in itself contains different phases is when the British became the dominant force on the planet. This started around the 1800s and went right up to the early 1900s.
This rise was largely credited to the intellectual power they had and the resources at their disposal to develop machinery equipment to mass-produce and transport products.
This basic model of large-scale industrialization allowed them to develop thousands of different products which could then be shipped off into other countries.
British had also had a lot of colonies around the world that benefited from these technological advancements and further cemented their place as the dominant power. This came at a cost that was reflected in the various colonies around the world such as in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia.
Up until that point, everything was going well, then a world war came from 1914 – 1918. It was a brutal part of human history and many lives were lost. Countries stagnated and others rose during this period such as America who realized that war was profitable.
France and United Kingdom were able to recover comfortably during this period but Germany was devastated, their economy fell by 27%. inflation rose through the roof, there was a power vacuum needed at that time.
Hitler at that time seemed like the right guy for the job. Years later he was pivotal to the second world war. World War 2 was fought between 1939-1945, yet again America benefited from a profitable war, shipping weapons across the world and protecting “allies”.
A year before World War 2 had ended something interesting happened, IMF (International Monetary Fund) was created. The overall vision seemed noble, they wanted to rebuild the economies of the world. While at the same time stabilizing the dollar and opening up trade. Let’s take a trip on a brief past of our little Jamaica.
Post-Independence
After Jamaica had gained independence, the economy was growing and relishing the returns of bauxite mining which helped us immensely post-world war. As a country, we were quite comfortable compared to others that were in the Caribbean.
It wasn’t all doom and gloom. Within the 1950s to 1960s the real GDP growth averaged around 4.5 percent.
This benefit from bauxite mining was short-lived as the aluminum industry went through a recession. Other factors such as an oversupply of aluminum worldwide decreased profits and caused multinational producers to flee the country as the interest was dwindling.
Tourism also declined during the 1970s but had a resurgence in the 1980s. The 1970s and the 1980s were an interesting era in Jamaica in every facet that we could imagine.
It helped shaped the country, everyone has their own basic interpretations of what happened, but from an economic standpoint, it wasn’t a disaster. Jamaica at the time post-independent was a one-legged stool and it proved to be a major catalyst for the country’s development.
Still for a brief time within the 1970s and 1980s Jamaica had the second largest GDP of the commonwealth, behind Trinidad and Tobago.
To put things in perspective, Trinidad and Tobago is an oil-exporting country. In 1985 Jamaica’s GDP per capita was US$1.7 billion US$940 per capita. Politically and socially, our skilled Jamaicans left the island and foreign investments dried up and investors weren’t optimistic about the country’s future.
Also, Michael Manley was still in office and was perceived to be sharing communist ideologies by some of the public. Given how close we are to Cuba in proximity, that idea or rumor at the time wasn’t far-fetched at the time given Fidel Castro’s reign and his regime.
Despite the negativity, Michael Manley did initiate plans to create a country where we would not be reliant on foreign capital and fight inequality which is still a burgeoning problem we face today.
It wasn’t entirely a failed project but the elites never agreed with his opinion. Edward Seaga’s popularity around this time was steadily growing and he came into office at the start of the 1980s and tried to grow the economy but his efforts were short-lived.
Throughout the 1980s the country’s GDP went through a period of stagnation and decline. To put things in perspective, Jamaica’s debt in 1986 was US $3.5 billion, it had one of the largest debt per capita ratios in the world.
Knocking on IMF Door Steps
Jamaica joined the IMF initiative in 1963, which is a year after its independence under Sir Honorable Alexander Bustamante who was a political leader at that time.
Donald Sangster was also pivotal in this role pulling the strings and hitting head with the major governmental bodies at this time. The first IMF loan at the time was seen as unnecessary by some as the country never needed the cash to spur growth.
In fact, the country didn’t even use the money at all, it was just a “free lunch” at the time that we didn’t need.
The fact that we were added a year after to the IMF system after independence seems strange but that’s for another day. During the slow economic period of the 1970s, Jamaica drafts up a plan for 2 arrangements with the IMF which was given the green light.
In the latter part of the 1970s, the countries fell into issues with repayment and went into three separate EFFs (Extended Fund Facility). Over the years this constant borrowing has led the IMF and other external agencies to exploit our economy.
IMF as a Political Weapon
The IMF being created after the world war is not a coincidence, a lot of changes happened throughout the world in 1944, a year before World War had ended that was pivotal to the world economy.
America came out of this period the dominant power which is slowly eroding today depending on how you look at it. It’s no coincidence that the US dollar became the world reserve currency in 1944 which was signed off by 44 allies in the Bretton Woods Agreement which Jamaica was a part of as well.
This new changing of the guard from the British to the US shifted the power of the landscape. At this point, the dollar was used as a form of weaponization against smaller countries that don’t have the economic stability.
The IMF used the power they have to impose political changes and economical changes to a country before they even get the deal signed by IMF.
One of their main tactics is to disrupt trade tariffs and promote globalization. This globalization is not exactly friendly for smaller countries that might be at the mercy of large multi-national corporations looking to salvage anything they can from a local economy.
We could easily use Jamaica here as an example when most businesses were beginning to get privatized and not state-owned. All the operations of that business were left up to the individuals working in that organization.
Due to the opening up of the economy to foreign trade, our agriculture industry fell drastically. If you should ask any high official who was involved with the IMF arrangements during this time, each time they borrowed money, they took their little time chipping away at the economy.
Our banana, poultry, milk, and many other important industries for our local market were impacted. Forcing local farmers to cut prices to compete with global companies whose revenues for a quarter is the GDP of most Caribbean islands.
The IMF in sum, gave us the money but at the same time extract more than what they’ve given us in loans to further enrich themselves and their cronies.
Jamaica was now a part of the global economy in every way and if the globe sneezes, we catch a cold. Given our over-reliance on tourism, we are even more deeply entrenched in this system.
The Last Option
If a country is borrowing money from the IMF, it obviously means that country needs to get its stuff together. The IMF should always be the last option after all the other options are exerted.
This is why they can set in place any rules they want within the deals and let you jump through hoops to get it completed before the deal is done.
Being that the IMF is entangled with the US, if your country is not within the US arms for a myriad of reasons, it could face economic sanctions. That’s how it is when a country has the resources and powers to do whatever it wants.
Globalization and the Future of Jamaica
Given the obvious problems Jamaica is facing, there are opportunities for smart young people who are talented and skilled.
It’s going to take a large effort to upskill the industry but it is necessary as we can move away from industries from the past and instead focus on industries where we might have a better chance of competing in.
Tourism is a mature industry within Jamaica and growing but it’s also a very paid industry and is susceptible to a lot of global forces in order to meet the yearly quota.
In order for Jamaica to compete globally and not be reliant upon international bodies to bail us out, we have to take advantage of industries such as robotics, cyber security, artificial intelligence, engineering, and quite and few others to push us into a Caribbean powerhouse.
As countries are growing they will need skills and services from this area and we can compete with other nations if we develop our youth to do so.
At the moment this idea looks dim and is probably a product of my fuzzy imagination while sipping a cup of mint tea on an early morning steering into the sky and thinking about what can happen.
It can be done within the next 50-100 years; countries take a long time to change as most humans don’t want to change the status quo. Another thing is to link with our brothers and sisters over in Africa, as you have economies that are rising and we could benefit from those relations.
Asian countries should also not be left out of the mix as they are experiencing a lot of growth right now, overall, the east is where we should look as the west is in slow decline due to inertia and other issues, it’s common for civilizations to rise and fall, it’s where we stand within the mix of the change is the issue.
We shouldn’t be reliant on America who is at the moment showing systemic weaknesses that will trickle down into our economy that is so reliant on their tourist dollars. We need an economy that is resilient because it’s going to need it going forward as nations rise and fall.
I have a lot of hope in Jamaica and in order to compete not just within the Caribbean and globally, we have to promote not just our sunshine, beaches, and food. We can also show the world what we can offer in terms of ingenuity, innovation, and skills that can help the world.
Chinese researchers from Suzhou in China’s eastern Jiangsu area have fostered an AI framework that can grow embryos in an artificial womb. Revealed first by SCMP, the “AI caretaker” is intended to care for an enormous number of creature-incipient organisms at this point.
Analysts in the paper guarantee that a similar innovation could be utilized to take out the requirement for a lady to convey her child for a very long time, permitting her embryo to develop outside her body in a safe yet proficient manner.
The gadget that is named ‘long term embryo culture device’ is a holder where they have mouse-growing organisms developing inside tubes, each loaded up with nutritious liquids.
In the underlying stages, the improvement of every embryo must be noticed, archived, and changed physically. Nonetheless, presently they have an AI caretaker that screens the incipient organisms in insane detail.
The AI assists the machine with noticing the minutest changes in the embryo and finely tuning the CO2, sustenance, and natural information sources. The framework is likewise fit for positioning the incipient organisms in light of well-being and advancement potential.
Assuming that an incipient organism passes on or experiences a deformity, the machine would make a specialist aware of eliminating it from the framework.
While this appears to be unrealistic, it should defeat a huge load of difficulties to be satisfactory – – current worldwide regulations don’t permit trial studies on human undeveloped organisms past about fourteen days of advancement.
Specialists anyway guarantee that the exploration in later stages is significant as a few secrets actually exist about the physiology of run-of-the-mill human undeveloped turn of events.
They guarantee that this tech would assist with understanding the beginning of life as well as early-stage advancement, while likewise offering a method for tackling birth deformities and major regenerative medical problems.
This likewise comes when China is seeing the slowest development in the populace in many years, with an ever-increasing number of youths pushing bearing youngsters in the midst of the spotlight on vocation as well as high living expenses in bigger Chinese urban areas, and state motivations aren’t of any assistance.
It’ll be intriguing to check whether this framework will at any point see the degree of improvement and acknowledgment the scientists focus on, particularly considering the country has restricted surrogacy, and any emergency clinic conveying such a child would need to bear the youngster’s liability, something no clinic wishes to.
This thought is likewise encircled by moral and social worries as well as mental ramifications on the youngster.
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Facebook parent Meta is experiencing one of their worst days ever as their stock fell 26% Thursday after The organization guage more fragile than-anticipated income development in the following quarter.
It likewise said it’s enduring a hotshot from Apple’s protection changes, and showed the main quarterly decrease in day-by-day dynamic clients on record.
The stock got done with its greatest one-day drop ever, in front of the 19% fall it found in July 2018. Thursday’s drop shaved more than $230 billion from its market cap, achieving it to $660 billion.
Meta missed earnings estimates for the fourth quarter at $3.67 as analysts were expecting $3.84. But it beat on revenue for the quarter, at $33.67 billion vs. the $33.4 billion estimated.
The company made a statement that the company’s average performance could be attributed to Apple’s recent iPhone privacy changes. As a result of this, it caused a reduction in the $10 billion revenue hit this year.
Other factors such as macroeconomic challenges like inflation and disruptions within key supply chain areas are affecting advertiser budgets.
Despite the short-term fall in stock, Facebook is heavily investing in products that are deemed to pay off well in the future. At the moment they are pushing the “Metaverse” narrative which is deemed to be a key segment of interest given their overall name change.
Facebook isn’t the only company that dipped that day, Snap was down more than 23%, Pinterest fell 10% and Twitter shares were down more than 5%.
Yet again tesla is wrestling with huge programming quality issues. The Associated Press reports Tesla has given a review for 817,143 vehicles over an imperfection in safety belt ring usefulness.
All Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, as well as 2021 and more current Model S and Model X vehicles, have a “product mistake” that keeps the toll from sounding on startup assuming the ring was hindered and the safety belt wasn’t affixed.
You could run into the issue just by shutting the entryway soon after leaving the vehicle, as indicated by the review notice.
The automaker intends to fix the safety belt ring bug by delivering an over-the-air update at some point toward the beginning of February.
There are no reports of wounds, and the visual safety belt ready actually shows up appropriately. South Korean analyzers previously found the issue on January sixth, and Tesla concluded a review was essential on January 25th after an examination.
While this review is moderately minor, its planning couldn’t be a lot more awful for Tesla. It comes only a couple of days after a review for a Full Self Driving bug, and keeping in mind that the NHTSA is researching a series of occurrences where vehicles utilizing Autopilot collided with crisis vehicles.
A driver is coming up against lawful offense indictments for an Autopilot-related accident, as well. That is on top of reviews for actual issues like camera, trunk and suspension abscond.
Tesla doesn’t have gained notoriety for quality right now, and the safety belt toll shortcoming just builds up that picture.
It’s easy these days to create a website, the hardest part is growing it. Another important part of website management is the tools available at your disposal.
It’s common knowledge that content is king, but there are tools out there that you can take advantage of to make your life easier as a blogger or website owner.
Depending on your goals, there are tools within almost any subdomain in website management that can help you achieve that goal a little easier.
If you are looking to improve your SEO, content management system, website speed optimization, spot trends, link analysis, and so on, you can find tools for almost all of those jobs.
Within this post, you will be provided with 15 tools you can leverage to make your job easier as a website owner and improve your productivity at the same time.
Screaming Frog
If you are interested in detailed SEO analysis and understand the overall architecture of your website such as site structure, broken links, response codes, meta descriptions, etc.
This can be a useful tool you can use and can probably get you pretty far along your journey. It’s been around for some time and is widely popular.
MarketMuse
Content is king! If you want to up your content game, this is a useful website that you can use.
This tool will allow you to analyze the content of a page then compare it to other pages around the web that have similar content.
You can basically use this tool as a gauge to see how bloggers design high-quality content.
Yoast SEO
If you are a WordPress user, you are probably familiar with this tool that you can use on your WordPress website to do website optimization.
When Yoast SEO came on the scene it was a game-changer, it made it easier for webmasters to become familiar with SEO on a fundamental level.
This allowed them to optimize different parts of their online website such as meta-descriptions, keywords, and so on. If you are not using it already, you should definitely give it a look.
PageSpeed Insights
Website is important and it’s a very underrated topic. In our short attention span era, users are not going to wait 5 seconds for a website to load when they could’ve easily done a Google search during that wait time and find the same content.
In order to ensure that your website is optimized as it grows, it’s important to have a look at page speeds.
PageSpeed Insights created by Google can help you analyze this crucial issue and see where your website stacks up.
JustReachOut
Getting press and backlinks for your website brand is super important. Backlinks are still one of the most important metrics that Google uses to assess website quality which will have an effect on the content you produce on your website and whether it can get ranked.
JustReachOut will assist you in getting press and getting your website noticed which will be beneficial for the long term.
Keywords Everywhere
If you want to have more control over your keyword research process, this can be a useful extension you can use to help you in your keyword research process.
It can help you to do competitive research and assess the performance of a keyword across many competitors.
This tool can save you a lot of time, given the fact that it’s an extension, while you are browsing through Google searches you can easily do CPC (cost per click) research as an advertiser.
You can also do page and website level traffic which is crucial in analyzing pages and coming up with inferences. The possibilities with this tool are left only to your imagination.
Ahrefs
This is another tool that you might see webmasters use often to do a detailed analysis of websites. It’s one of the best on the market, the only drawback is the price.
If you are just starting out and you are bootstrapping your way on a tight budget, this might not be suitable for you.
If you love to experiment and have the cash on this is another amazing SEO tool that can help you do advanced level research and take your SEO game up another level.
Majestic
Similar to Ahrefs, Majestic is a tool that can assist you with your SEO activities. It also can get pretty detailed if you need to and provide you insights and data that would’ve otherwise gone unnoticed using other tools.
Similarly, it’s popular that you would find used among webmasters or SEO specialists.
Redirect Path
This is an amazing free extension you can use that can spot those pesky HTTP codes on your website which can lead to a poor user experience that can have an effect on your website.
For example, as websites age over time and changes are made, not every single page or link will be updated on a website. Some things will be left under the rug.
A simple issue such as having a lot of 404 pages showing bad links is not good especially if your website is small.
This extension helps you to notice such errors along with other issues such as redirect errors which might come up when you are changing links. It will show 404, 301,302, and 500 HTTP Status Code Errors.
All these issues are necessary to address if you want to maintain a clean and smooth user experience.
Google Search Console
Over the years Google has improved on its search console interface and capabilities. Due to the fact that it’s created by Google, you can freely enjoy certain analyses that you would normally have to pay for.
Google Search Console is not as advanced as some of the others pointed out in this blog but it can help you to analyze basic metrics on your website such as clicks, index coverage which shows you how many of your pages have been indexed so far, URL analysis which can allow you to analyze URLs and find different interesting data about them.
You would’ve to try it out for yourself to understand the full feature set of this application which is pretty reliable.
Google Analytics
This is another tool that is under the Google umbrella that can assist if you are a webmaster specifically if you are doing PPC advertising with Google.
The information available at your fingertips are endless and if you love number crunching and analyzing data, you might enjoy your time meddling with this platform and see what you find.
This is not an exhaustive list that will have you feeling overwhelmed, overall you can pick and choose which tool you are going to use as some of them are quite similar.
It would be an overkill and a waste of money and time to use everything. Instead, choose the best tools that fit your style and is suitable for where you want to go right now.
