{"id":8232,"date":"2026-05-16T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:45:24","slug":"google-tests-dark-amp-light-urls-in-search-results-for-the-same-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=8232","title":{"rendered":"Google Tests Dark &amp;amp; Light URLs In Search Results (For The Same URL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-logo-gray-tones-1778500684.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Logo Gray Tones\" title=\"Google Tests Dark &amp;amp; Light URLs In Search Results (For The Same URL)\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google is testing displaying the URL of the search result snippet where the https portion is a dark gray and the domain name portion is a light gray. It is a weird test, but hey, Google is always testing&#8230;<\/p> <p>This was spotted by Brodie Clark who posted about it on X and SERP Alerts &#8211; here is his screenshot:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-dark-light-urls-1778500726.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Dark Light Urls\" title=\"Google Tests Dark &amp;amp; Light URLs In Search Results (For The Same URL)\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Brodie wrote, &#8220;The test features the domain name (which is simplified without sub-folders on mobile already) with a darker https:\/\/ and the domain name in lighter text.&#8221;<\/p> <p>I honestly do not like this test &#8211; at least, reverse it so the domain name is dark.<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Tests #Dark #ampamp #Light #URLs #Search #Results #URL1778892324<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing displaying the URL of the search result snippet where the https portion is a dark gray and the domain name portion is a light gray. It is a weird test, but hey, Google is always testing&#8230; This was spotted by Brodie Clark who posted about it on X and SERP Alerts &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[877,12106,75,10059,308,95,1706,3382,22843],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-ampamp","tag-dark","tag-google","tag-light","tag-results","tag-search","tag-tests","tag-url","tag-urls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}