Customization / Optimization
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1.) Blocking Internal IP Addresses
There’s a WordPress plugin I’m looking into to help do this on a more sophisticated level, but in the meantime, we thought you could take care of this via Google Analytics… Log in to Google Analytics / main admin / filters / new filter / call it something like “internal traffic” / exclude traffic from IP address OR IPS domain (we just need to make sure that this is a static IP and I’m not sure if you pick “IP address” of “IPS domain”).Is anyone aware of any plugins that would take care of this or is Google Analytics the best option for this?
2.) Improving Website Speed
We are looking into the possibility of either updating or completely redoing our website. Either way, I want to have a better understanding of what’s going on with the speed of our website currently, which is pretty bad. You can examine our website speed via two ways. 1.) Webmaster Tools under “other resources” (screenshot below), or 2.) Google Analytics / Behavior / Site Speed / Speed Suggestions.Overall score was 41/100 obviously compression would take care of a bulk of that along with resizing images, etc.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
3.) Tracking Vanity URLs
To more effectively track offline marketing campaigns, I need to be able to create vanity URLS and do a “Server Side 301 Redirect.” For example, in a mailing piece, if we encourage people to visit mjds.org/tuition, I want to be able to track if this is effective. Below is a flow diagram that should help explain the steps that need to happen. I want us to be able to do this for every marketing mailing campaign that we do.The flow would be something of this sort….
Tier 1 (Vanity URL)
mjds.org/tuitionTier 2
Server Side 301 RedirectTier 3
mjds.org/tuition/?utm_source=mail&utm_medium=foldedpostcard&utm_campaign=TuitionTier 4
Using Apache .htaccessTier 5 (301 Redirect)
mjds.org/tuition/?utm_source=mail&utm_medium=foldedpostcard&utm_campaign=TutionI appreciate any insight that the WP community may have, I’m not familiar with all the plugins wordpress has but I’m sure there’s some solutions that we could utilize to accomplish our end goals.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I’m not 100% sure on the version of WP that is currently being used as I do not have backend access at this time.
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