Webmasters & Development
Building and running websites and applications.
guys pls help i run a hobby recipe blog and every SEO guide i read contradicts the last one... the current debate in my head is about keyword density... some people treat it as essential, others call it a relic. i dont want to waste hours on something that…
Our Node API sits behind nginx on the same VM. It listens on 5000. It's been fine for months, but now after a reboot we get this: If I SSH in and curl localhost:5000 I get a 200 instantly. Restarting nginx fixes it for a while. I'm out of ideas and support…
Were about to design the internal APIs for a dozen intrenal services, greenfield, i keep going back and forth between plain REST with an OpenAPI spec and gRPC with protobuf. Performance is not our bottleneck right now, consistency is. What would u pick, and…
so annoyed rn performance has been my pet project for months and we were finally all green. Then this: CLS regressed on the home page after a few small releases 🤦 Nothing darmatic changed in the layout. The suspcets are an image carousel and maybe a font…
ok weird one maintenance mode is not supposed to last all afternoon, right? i started updating WooCommerce from the dashboard. The progress spinner ran for ages, then i clicked away too early. Since then the site is stuck on the maintenance message. i have…
ok so our homepage LCP regressed and stakeholders are asking why: the only notable change is installing an optimization plugin... mobile is much worse than dsektop. a product photo is reported as the LCP element... what tools and steps do you use to break…
search Consoles Pages report has a big grey bar that keeps growing: 'Crawled currently not indexed' for over 300 category pages. Google clearly found them and visited them, then decided not to show them. i've clicked Request Indexing on a few, nothing…
ok weird one I'm building a startup landing page and the topic of infinite scroll came up in a planning meeting. We're a small team with a limited budget, so priorities really matter. Some people think it's a quick win for accessibility, others think it's a…
hmmmm ok we launched mreging two domains last week and organic traffic fell by half. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait. but this doesnt look like a wboble. ive got access to Search Console, analytics and the server.…
ok so after adding lazy loading everywhere, our Largest Contentful Paint went from comfortably green to this: PageSpeed says the LCP element is a product photo. Nothing about it changed visually, same file, same size. Yet it clearly paints much later now. Im…
help!! im new to server side rendering and this error has me confused: Its a SvelteKit project and teh error points at the users theme preference. Locally it sometimes happens, sometimes not. A colleague says its cuz of browser extensions, another says its…
so annoyed rn i don't get it. My sitemap is submitted, pages return 200, no noindex anywhere. Yet: about half of my blog posts sit in Crawled currently not indexed. some older pages from teh same section are indexed and even rank. im trying to figure out if…
i swear i installed it. pip install dotenv finished cleanly, pip list shows it, and when i run the app by hand everything works. then the Docker image starts it and i get this: same server, same repo, same user (i think). ive reinstalled three times and even…
im literally losing my mind here long time WordPress user here, slowly losing patience, for a membership community, Im seriously considering a flat file CMS. the pitch is faster, simpler and more secure... the worry is that every small change will end up as…
long time lurker first post lol search Console flagged teh home page for poor CLS out of nowhere, and teh PageSpeed report agrees: watching the page load on my phone, i can see content jump down at least once. my gut says its teh cookie banner, because thats…
hmmmm ok we got a complaint that people tap the wrong button on the checkout page cuz thigns 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…
Performance has been my pet project for months and we were fnially all green. Then this: CLS regressed on mobile category pages after a few small releases... nothing dramatic changed in teh layout... the suspects are a web font swap and maybe a font chagne…
so annoyed rn performance has been my pet project for months and we were finally all green. then this: CLS regressed on blog articles after a few small releases. Nothing dramatic changed in teh layout. The suspects are an embedded review widget and maybe a…
Developer here, but WordPress isnt my daily thing. A clients site broke after bumping the PHP version: The classic critical error page. Their setup has around twenty plugins including a forms plugin, i want to find teh exact cause instead of randomly…
so annoyed rn were redoing the website for a local bakery. Half teh team wants to stay on WordPress, the other half wants a custom Laravel site. Im supposed to make the call. Id love input from people whove maintained both: what actaully matters over three…
ugh. ive been reading framework debates for weeks and Im more confused than when I started. for a long lived enterprise app, is Vue a good fit? every option has passionate fans and loud critics. I care about maintainability, performance, and how easy it is…
ok weird one we launched a site redeisgn last week and ogranic traffic fell by half. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait. but this doesn't look like a wobble 🤷 i've got access to Search Console, analytics and teh…
Developer here, but WordPress isn't my daily thing. A client's site broke after a bulk plugin update: The classic critical error page. Their setup has around twenty plugins including a forms plugin. I want to find the exact cause instead of randomly…
long time lurker first post lol i did eevrything the optimization guides recommended, including adding lazy loading everywhere. The result: LCP is worse than before, and the report points at the main headline. it feels like the optimization made things…
small Flask ish API, nothing fancy. I moved it to a new box, created a venv, installed requirements, and hooked it up to gunicorn. instead of a running service I got this traceback: The weird part: if I source venv/bin/activate and run it, no error at all,…
