Chrome 65 beta has added SEO to audits in the Developer Tools Audit tab.
I have a number of guides on moving hasting away form CPanel, Setting up VM’s on AWS, Vultr or Digital Ocean along with installing and managing WordPress from the command line.
When you develop any site you need to perform regular audits to ensure it is up-to-date and compliant. Google Chrome has audit tools built right in (Chrome 65 has SEO audit tools (yay)
Chrome 64Developer Tools – Audit tool.
Chrome 64 Audit Scan options
Chrome 64 Audit Results
The performance results seem off given I have set up a CDN, optimized WordPress.
Time to download Chrome 65 beta and get new audit tools.
Chrome version confirmed
Audit Options
Chrome 65 Audit Results
Hmmm, results are different (same website, network and time)
Chrome 64 Audit Results:
- Performance: 45
- Progressive Web App: 30
- Accessibility: 86
- Best Practice: 56
- SEO: N/A
Chrome 65 BETA Audit Results:
- Performance: 24
- Progressive Web App: 45
- Accessibility: 65
- Best Practice: 63
- SEO: 90
Google recommends you load pages in under 1s, I would suggest using multiple tools to indicate site speed.
https://gtmetrix.com is a great site for testing your sites speed. I used GT Metrix to move my site from 26s to 6 by setting up a WordPress CDN, moving away from CPanel to a self-managed server on Vultr then to 4s with optimising PHP by setting up child workers.
https://www.webpagetest.org is also good for testing websites.
I will continue to use Chrome Audit Tools for other results like SEO
That’s weird Chrome Audit Tools, I thought I did not have meta tags?
I downloaded the WP Meta SEO plugin, I use the wp command from the SLI (setup guide here)
I activated the plugin in WordPress the loaded the dashboard. WP Meta SEO asked to import data from the Yoast plugin.
Now I can see my metadata is falling behind.
With WP Meta SEO I was able to apply individual page Meta tags.
I added the following meta tags with WP Meta SEO plugin for each page (the metadata below was for this page)
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://fearby-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/php_pool_featured.jpg" /> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@FearbySoftware" /> <meta name="twitter:domain" content="Programming, IoT and Server Stuff" /> <meta name="twitter:description" content="How to setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x to increase website traffic" /> <meta name="twitter:title" content="Setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://fearby-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/php_pool_featured.jpg" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Programming, IoT and Server Stuff" /> <meta property="og:description" content="How to setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x to increase website traffic" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://fearby.com/article/how-to-setup-php-fpm-on-demand-child-workers-in-php-7-x-to-increase-website-traffic/" /> <meta property="og:type" content="article" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x" /> <meta name="description" content="How to setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x to increase website traffic" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x" /> <meta name="title" content="Setup PHP FPM on demand child workers in PHP 7.x" />
fyi
I use the free version of the Yoast for SEO plugin in WordPress. The premium version has a lot more to offer, I might have to check Premium out.
I am now on the hunt for meta plugins for WordPress
I hope this guide helps someone.
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Revision History
v1.2 WP-Meta SEO
v1.1 Added webpagetest.org link and results
v1.0 Initial post