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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…
ugh. search Consoles Pages report has a big grey bar that keeps growing: crawled currently not indexed for most of my 1,200 product pages. google clearly found them and visited them, then decided not to show them 🤷 ive clicked Request Indexing on a few,…
startnig my first freelance gig and Im leaning towards plain HTML with a bit of JS. part of me thinks its teh sensible choice, part of me wonders if Im just picking what I know or what looks good on a CV 😤 id like to hear from ppl whove built something…
hmmmm ok small business site, and its completely down. all I see is this: WordPress sent an email about a technical issue mentioning a plugin, but the recovery mode link just loops back to teh error. This started right after coyping staging to live. I'm not…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts well. Im working on a React app and noticed that a useEffect that fetches data runs twice when the component mounts... the network tab shows two identical requests. in the…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my site on a small VPS keeps randomly falling over with this: A restart of the server or waiting a while fixes it, then it comes back a few days later. It got noticeably worse after the host's maintenance window. I'd…
guys pls help search Console flagged mobile category pages for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: Watching the page load on my phone, i can see content jump down at least once. My gut says its an embedded review widget, cuz thats the…
maintenance mode is not supposed to last all afternoon, right? i started updating the translation files from teh dashboard 😤 The progress spinner ran for ages, then my laptop went to sleep. Since then teh site is stuck on the maintenance message... i have…
long time lurker first post lol updates on this site have been flaky for a while. Today, updating WooCommerce failed with an error about not being able to create a directory, and now the site shows: Id like to fix both problems: get the site back now, and…
ugh. maintenance mode is not supposed to last all afternoon, right? I started updating my theme from the dashboard. The progress spinner ran for ages, then my internet dropped. Since then the site is stuck on the maintenance message. I have access to my…
After switching to a new CDN, our Largest Contentful Paint went from comfortably green to this: PageSpeed says the LCP eleemnt is a product photo 🔥 Nothing about it changed visually, same file, same size 🔥 Yet it clearly paints much later now. Im trying to…
Accessibility dsicussion time. I keep seeing strong opinions about auto playing carousels, and both sides sound very sure of themselves. For an online shop, we want to do the right thing, not just teh thing that looks good on a checklist. How do you decide…
long time lurker first post lol I'm a backend dev, not a C person. Today my Ruby job runner started crashing after heavy concurrency, and all I get is: Our own code is plain high level code. I don't manage memory anywhere xD So how can it segfault? Is the…
Reproducible crash, at least. heavy concurrency kills the C++ API server instantly: i found a core file somewhere once but no idea what to do with it :D do i really need to learn gdb tonight? i can reproduce it in staging with the exact same input, which…
hmmmm ok this one is driving me crazy. after a reboot, a chunk of requests fail with this page: not all of them, maybe one in ten, the Spring Boot app health check is green the whole time, my manager asked if we turned it off and on again. we did... several…
ok weird one we launched switching to a new CMS last week and organic traffic fell overnight to a trickle. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait... but this doesnt look like a wobble... ive got access to Search Console,…
ok so owner of a small content site. i handled switching to a new CMS myself, followed a guide, felt confident. then the analytics graph fell overnight to a trickle. Im second guessing everything now: redirects, sitemaps, robots.txt, the tracking code. Is…
small Flask ish API, nothing fancy. I moved it to a new box, created a venv, installed requirements, and hooked it up to the systemd service 🤷 instead of a running service I got this traceback: the weird part: if i source venv/bin/activate and run it, no…
so annoyed rn we got a copmlaint that ppl tap the wrong button on product pages cuz things move right as they tap... then I checked teh vitals: CLS is in teh red, lighthouse on my desktop says its fine, which confuses me even more. is there a way to see the…
help!! starting an internal dashboard and Im leaning towards Svelte. part of me thinks its teh sensible choice, part of me wonders if Im just picking what i know or what looks good on a CV. id like to hear from ppl whove built something similar. what made…
so annoyed rn merged a dependency update PR and now Vite refuses to build: The error is npm ERR! code ERESOLVE. The PR looked harmless, a few version bumps. I'd rather understand the cause than blindly revert or slap a flag on it. What's the right way to…
search Console flagged teh home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and the PageSpeed report agrees: watching the page load on my phone, I can see content jump down at least once :D my gut says its an embedded review widget, because thats teh last thing we…
