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Send the fixes to your developer: a checklist they can actually use
Turn a getReport report into a brief a developer can act on, with the fixes view, the Markdown and CSV exports, two sentences of context and an agreed order, then verify the result with a re-run.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Security10 min read
Server and X-Powered-By headers: why version numbers matter
Apache/2.4.29, PHP/7.2.24, Express. Two response headers hand every scanner your exact software versions. What they reveal, what hiding them does and does not achieve, and the fix for each server.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Speed12 min read
Service workers and offline pages: the minimal safe version
A service worker does nothing for a first visit and can serve stale pages for weeks. The minimal recipe: network-first HTML, cached hashed assets, an offline page, a kill switch, and when to skip it.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Platforms13 min read
Shopify: what you can fix, what you cannot, and what to ignore
A Shopify report has findings you control, findings Shopify controls and findings that do not matter on Shopify. This guide sorts them, shows where each fix lives in the admin, and tells you which apps to remove first.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO11 min read
Sitemap index files: splitting large sitemaps the right way
A sitemap stops at 50,000 URLs or 50 MB. This guide shows how to split it into an index with child files by type, date or language, what to leave out, and how WordPress and other CMSs do it for you.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO13 min read
Soft 404s: pages Google treats as missing even though they return 200
A soft 404 is a page that says "not found" or shows nothing while answering HTTP 200. Learn how Google spots them, how to find yours with Search Console and the report, and the fix for each cause.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Speed14 min read
Speed budgets: setting one and holding to it in CI
Pick a speed budget from your own numbers, write it into the repo and make the build fail when a pull request breaks it, with Lighthouse CI configs and a budgets.json for a shop and a marketing site.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Platforms11 min read
Squarespace: the checklist for speed, SEO and structured data
Squarespace 7.1 does images, SSL, sitemaps and canonicals for you. This checklist covers the settings that are still yours, the JSON-LD you add through code injection, and the report findings to ignore on the platform.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - SEO13 min read
Structured navigation for large sites: hubs, breadcrumbs, link depth
Organise a site of thousands of pages so every page is a few clicks from home, with hub pages, breadcrumbs, crawlable pagination and the sitemap as a backstop, then audit it page by page.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Security13 min read
Subresource Integrity for third-party scripts: help and harm
What an integrity hash protects against (the polyfill.io kind of incident), what it cannot (tag managers, chat, anything that updates), how to generate hashes, and when self-hosting is better.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - WordPress12 min read
The 8 WordPress rookie mistakes getReport checks (and the fixes)
Eight settings left at their defaults after launch cost WordPress sites rankings and security. See how to spot each one from the outside, why it matters and the exact admin screen that fixes it.Updated 25 Sept 2026 - Security13 min read
The Japanese keyword hack: symptoms, where it hides, how to recover
Japanese titles for your site in Google, a Search Console owner you did not add. How the Japanese keyword hack works, how the checker sees it through the cloaking, and the recovery steps in order.Updated 25 Sept 2026
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