I made my website rank by accident

I'm a full-stack developer from South Africa πΏπ¦. I love writing about JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
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I'm a full-stack developer from South Africa πΏπ¦. I love writing about JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
That's nice Chris Bongers. Good to learn about how these kinds of stuff can improve your rankingπ
Whoa, thats cool! If i ever get around to uploading video to my blog I'm doing this!
Awesome! Do remember to also convert GIFs to Video π
Chris Bongers I barely use GIFs in my blog posts, but when I do I most probably forget π
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You must be thinking, clickbait πͺ, right? Well, it kind of is, but also isn't.
I make my website rank on purpose but had an accidental big win on a specific topic. Let me explain what happened.
Now and then, I like to take a Sunday to go through my search console, Ahrefs, and analytics. This process includes checking broken links, seeing where I might have missed a broken image, and most importantly, where I can optimize!
On 27 June 2021, I wrote this article about moving from GIF to video format. And this article was purely written to make my website faster.
Which it did! These pages I changed became so much faster, so I was happy.
Back to now, I was checking my Google Search Console and noticed the following:

The screenshot above shows I got clicks and impressions on video content? And although I did do some twitch before, this never really picked up. So I was surprised where these impressions and clicks came from.
Diving a bit deeper into the reports, I found the keywords used and decided to go through them in the video tab on google.

And on the "Chrome screenshot" query, I managed to find the following video snippet.

Pretty impressive, as this is only an 8-second self-hosted video snippet. (Which used to be a GIF)
Here, you can see it in action: Detecting faces from the webcam in JavaScript.
Moving from GIF to video does not only make your website faster. It even helps get you ranked on video content!
I, for one, was super surprised as I haven't even optimized any on this content for that purpose.
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