The Wideweb blog
Post-mortems, benchmarks and honest takes from the Wideweb bench. No schedule, no filler — every post opens with the lesson we earned.
· 10 min read · ai search / llms.txt / ai crawlers
What llms.txt does, which AI crawlers actually read it, what to put in it, and a copy-and-adapt template with Wideweb's own file as the example.
Turns out 97% of llms.txt files across 137,000 domains got zero requests in a month, and the biggest group of bots fetching the rest were SEO audit tools, not AI engines.
Dima Ogrenich · Lead engineer at Wideweb
· 11 min read · ai automation / small business / workflow automation
Which business processes pay back AI automation in weeks, which don’t, and a 4-question ROI test to run before you build any AI for business automation.
Turns out the dull back-office automations are where AI pays off most: MIT found the biggest returns there, while more than half of generative AI budgets still go to sales and marketing tools.
Pavlo Trykulich · Tech Lead at Wideweb
· 8 min read · eu ai act / ai governance / ai compliance
Every EU AI Act deadline in one list: Feb 2025 duties, the 2 Aug 2026 transparency rules, and what is deferred to 2027 — written for website owners.
Turns out the July 2026 Digital Omnibus pushed most high-risk AI rules to December 2027 but did not move chatbot disclosure, which has applied since 2 August 2026, so the EU AI Act deadline most websites face has already passed.
Pavlo Trykulich · Tech Lead at Wideweb
· 6 min read · structured data / SEO / AEO
A flawless FAQPage graph, an empty test result, and the August 2023 policy change everyone forgets at exactly the wrong moment.
Turns out Google's Rich Results Test only reports rich results you're eligible for — and since August 2023, FAQ rich results are reserved for government and health sites, so your perfectly valid FAQPage markup shows up as nothing.
Dima Ogrenich · Founder & CEO at Wideweb
· 4 min read · design audit / gradients / post-mortem
Same four hues, one working day: a public post-mortem of dialing our own site from startup-loud to enterprise-calibrated without a redesign.
Turns out the same four hues read startup or enterprise depending on how often you use them — the tell is frequency, not palette.
Dima Ogrenich · Founder & CEO at Wideweb
· 6 min read · Craft CMS 6 / Laravel / upgrades
A practitioner's read on the Laravel port — what's real, what's rough, and why 2027 is the year that actually matters.
Turns out the risky part of Craft CMS 6 isn't the Laravel port at all — it's the abandoned plugin already sitting in your Craft CMS 5 install.
Pavlo Trykulich · Tech Lead at Wideweb
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