SEO doesn't exist because the ONLY way to optimize your website is to write good content and get quality backlinks. To be precise, 99% of "SEO" is backlinks and 1% is your HTML quality (in-page SEO).
To give you an example, you can have the worst HTML, no internal linking, to Sitemap, no nothing, but have 10-20 quality backlinks and still be #1 in Google.
I'm doing internet marketing for more than 15 years now and the proof is out there. Quoting something else from the article:
"Google will try to follow relative paths inside of Javascript, even when they don't exist. This can result in polluted crawl error reports."
So he author claims that a relative path to a URL (inside a JS call) will effect your organic results. I wonder if anyone understands that this makes no sense and especially SEO-wise.