cache and google

  • Resolved marampb

    (@marampb)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Raul
    happy that your plugin more than doubled the number of active installs in the last 2 months! You deserve this! Your plugin is just great!

    I would have a question related to google indexing versus the fast velocity generated “cache” files. I just remarked that google indicates that some files are missing…
    I would say this is normal, as, after each website update, I clean all the cache, and new ones are then generated (I’m using the “integrity” on my Mac to check all the links – to be sure I only have 200 status – so indirectly this generate around 50-60 cache minified files).
    As temporary solution I added in the robots the directive
    Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/fvm/cache/*

    Would it be possible to integrate such feature directly on the plugin?
    Am I doing wrong – activating this directive?

    thanks a lot for your support and recommendations
    BR
    B

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  • Plugin Author Raul P.

    (@alignak)

    As you purge the cache, the js and css files generated will be gone, leading to a 404 error on those specific files… however, those are really just js and css files, not content, so it actually doesn’t matter.

    What’s important though, is that google and other bots can read them “when” they crawl each html page, since that will allow them to test for things such as mobile friendly pages and so on.

    Do NOT block with Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/fvm/cache/*
    This will trigger more errors on the developer tools, when google fetch the html page… but it’s not allowed to style the page because you blocked access to css and js files.

    I thought of several solutions in the past, but we need to uniquify the urls to bypass caches, and because each page may need different files (so one doesn’t fit all).
    I could implement a “no delete” option, so those are preserved… however, I think with time it will fill up your hard drive.

    Thread Starter marampb

    (@marampb)

    Thanks Raul
    i removed the Disallow directive.
    thanks again for your recommendations.

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