Webmasters & Development
Building and running websites and applications.
To add some context: say you're changing your site's URL structure during a redesign. Hundreds of pages, some ranking well. Some of the pages have links from other sites and bring in steady search traffic, sooo losing…
Let's swap war stories. Here's teh screen that haunted me for a weekend: app logs looked healthy, heatlh check passed locally, restarting fixed it for about twenty minutes and then teh 502s came back lol turned out to be something embarrassingly small.…
Im building an API where clients create orders with a POST 😂 Mobile clients on bad connections sometimes time out and retry, and weve ended up with duplicate orders a few times. customers notice duplicates immediaetly, and refunding them by hand is getting…
so i was just monitoring the logs and everything went completely sideways. the sync job was running fine all night, but suddenly the whole thing just collapsed and now the database is sitting there with half finished records... im honestly losing my mind…
Bit of a crisis here. switching to a new CMS went live, and since then organic traffic fell by half. Search Console started showing lots of 404s and some pages marked as excluded by noindex. We did set up redirects, at least for the main pages. Could the…
help!! say u're starting a small content site with a couple of interactive bits, like a filterable list and a form. You could use a full component framework, a static site generator, or hand written HTML. each option…
our Ruby job runner has been rock solid for a year. since heavy concurrency it dies every few minutes with this: no exception, no stack trace, teh supervisor just restarts it. customers get random failures and i have literally nothing to grep for 🤦 how do…
long time lurker first post lol small site owner, getting a bit desperate. we launched a batch of category pages and most of them never made it into Google: thats 40 category pages marked crawled but not indexed... theyre similar in structure because they…
ok weird one just finished migrating to a new host and was feeling great until I opened the site: i copied the files and imported the database... i updated wp config.php with what i believe are teh new credentials. Still the same error :D i've triple checked…
guys pls help woke up, opened my site, and isntead of my homepage theres one grey sentence: i think it happened after an ovrenight auto update... wp admin shows teh same message, so i cant log in to undo anything. i suspect a WooCommerce add on cuz it…
well. say you have a search console, a JavaScript analytics tool and raw server logs, and they all disagree about traffic.. :/ not slightly: meaningfully. the gap is big enough that a client asking about it would expect an explanation, and "tools disagree"…
ok so search Console flagged the home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: Watching teh page load on my phone, I can see content jump down at least once. My gut says its an embedded review widget, because thats teh last thing we…
help!! this is a good thread. Imagine your phone buzzing in the middle of the night because a clients store is showing this to every visitor: thats the etnire page. front end and /wp admin both. i had auto upadtes on for plugins, so something udpated…
long time lurker first post lol i swear i installed it. pip install psycopg2 finished cleanly, pip list shows it, and when I run the app by hand everything works. Then teh Docker image starts it and I get this: same server, same repo, same user (I think).…
say ur frontend sends fetch(url, { method: "POST", headers: { "Content Type": "application/json" }, credentials: "include" }) to an API on a different origin, and the browser blocks it. GETs are fine. The API does set…
hmmmm ok say you have a variable number of cards and want a repsonsive grid with no media queries, equal column widths, and a last row that doesnt stretch to fill the space. the obvoius approach with flex wrap and a…
ok so say your ORM backed endpoint is fine locally and slow in production. The query log shows the same SELECT ... WHERE id = ? repeated hundreds of times per request. locally everything feels instant cuz the test…
I'm optimising a news style page and the content jumps around while it loads. Images pop in and push text down, and a banner slot at the top expands after a moment xD Lab tools flag cumulative layout shift as the main…
Got a proposal from an SEO consultant for a SaaS docs site, and a big part of it revolves around keyword density. It sounded convincing in the meeting, but afterwards I found forum posts calling it outdated. I'm not trying to bash anyone, I just wanna know…
Ah, i went through something similar. Im running a site with a few hundred product and category pages. In teh search console, a big chunk of them are listed as crawled but currently not indexed lol No errors, no noindex tags, they return 200. ive tried…
im fixing a navigation menu soemone built with <div elements and click handlers... it works with a mouse, but u cant open it with the keyboard and screen readers just announce "group". an accessibility audit flagegd…
ok so i did everything teh optimization guides recommended, including a redesgin. The result: LCP is worse than before, and teh report points at the main headline. It feels like teh optimization made things slower. Is that possible? Id like to keep teh…
Our homepage LCP regressed and stakeholders are asking why: the only notable change is switching to a new CDN. mobile is much worse than desktop. a product photo is reported as the LCP element 🔥 what tools and steps do you use to break LCP down into its…
were redoing the website for a photographers portfolio. half the team wants to stay on WordPress, the other half wants a flat file CMS. im supposed to make teh call. id love input from people whove maintained both: what actually matters over three to five…
Say u update several plugins at once and the whole WordPress site, admin included, goes blank. uve got file acecss but no clue which update did it. The front end shows teh generic critical error mesasge and the login…
