Optimize Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager via Preconnect Headers

Add the following before the tag in your html to give google analytics loading a little boost and make the pagespeed and chrome auditing tool happy with your site <link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”https://www.google-analytics.com”> <link rel=”dns-prefetch” href=”https://www.googletagmanager.com”> <link href=”https://www.google-analytics.com” rel=”preconnect” crossorigin> <link href=”https://www.googletagmanager.com” rel=”preconnect” crossorigin> These optimizations can speed up your page load. Opportunity: Preconnect to required … Read more

CloudFlare Mirage Causing Google Pagespeed Hang Ups

After encountering some Sea-Themed Google Pagespeed Warnings for porpoiseant , jellyfish.webp, and banger.js, I’ve tracked down the offending code to be from CloudFlare’s Mirage tool (found under the Speed tab)  From the CloudFlare Website, this is the summary of Mirage: What does Mirage do? Mirage tailors image loading based on network connection and device type. Devices … Read more

edmonton.webp jellyfish.webp banger.js 404 errors

I’ve been getting an increase in 404 errors hit by Googlebot recently: 66.249.69.204 – – [01/Jul/2019:20:29:17 +0000] “GET /porpoiseant/banger.js?cb=169-1&bv=2&v=15&PageSpeed=off HTTP/1.1” 404 3277 “https://fccid.io/JWC-BS5-5” “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://ww 66.249.69.206 – – [01/Jul/2019:10:37:53 +0000] “GET /detroitchicago/edmonton.webp?a=a&cb=170-1&shcb=27 HTTP/1.1” 404 “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X … Read more