Search console error with AMP

Hi, @nehaahmed:

It sounds like you’re on the right track by inquiring with specific plugin authors for each plugin. They will be able to address questions related to plugin functionality or errors they may introduce.

In addition to suggestions on how to resolve these errors, I was wondering if you could provide me some suggestions regarding the plugins I have installed. I get reports about the low load times of my website, 5xx error and problems with css and js files not being minified.

Because there are so many plugins in play here, it may be easier to test each plugin in isolation to confirm it’s working as expected. This is especially true when using plugins that modify or cache files and response data.

A common process is to disable all but the plugin in question to eliminate interference by others. This may be challenging for a production site, so if you can duplicate the site for staging/testing, that should prove helpful.

Once you can test each plugin individually, check that the plugin is doing what it claims, and note anything weird that you could report to the author. You could also enable two plugins at the same to see how they interact with each other.

…it would be very helpful if you could suggest which plugins I should keep to improve the speed and security of our website, and which ones I should get rid of…

This is a tough one, since each site is so unique in its requirements.

As a general rule, however, the fewer requests that are made for your site, the faster it can potentially be. For instance, when the homepage is loaded in Chrome with DevTools open to the “Network” tab, there are around 200 requests made. These requests amount to over 7 MB of data transferred (with a clear cache). Reducing these requests would be a good place to start, possibly with concatenation of JS and CSS files.

Keep in mind that every active plugin possibly brings with it more load requirements. Social media and video player plugins are good examples of this, since they load their own assets. DevTools offers sorting requested files by size and speed, so may reveal additional areas of improvement.

Security is a big topic on its own, so I would suggest starting with this article for more information: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/hardening-wordpress/.

Also, would you suggest that I install the plugin “Schema – All in one schema rich snippets”?

I can’t make a direct recommendations here, but encourage you to back up WordPress and/or using a staging site before giving plugins a test drive ??

I hope this helps as you delve deeper into performance!

Hello @nehaahmed

Thank you for the support topic, It seems you are using another AMP plugin (AMP for WP) at the movement, please switch to the official AMP plugin so we can further assist your regarding AMP invalidations on your site.

When you install the official AMP plugin, it also adds a list and also marks AMP-compatible plugins and themes, you can find it on Plugin and Theme install pages.

You can also find out AMP-compatible plugins and themes on our site

Hope this helps!

@nehaahmed
As we didn’t receive a response I’ll mark this as resolved. Feel free to open a new support topic if you require any further assistance.