gab81

hello???

anyone with the same issue? any solutions? else I will uninstall.

thanks

p.s. running 4.2.1

I may have found something…

I went to the Debug section and it seems the plugin is pushing the sitemap to BWT with the following URL:

https://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysite.com/sitemap.xml

BUT from Bing’s FAQs page https://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/how-to-submit-sitemaps-82a15bd4 it seems they changed the structure:

PINGING BING USING A HTTP REQUEST

If you have an automated system that generates your sitemap, you may find it easier to inform Bing about your sitemap by sending a HTTP request. Using your favorite method to send the request, use the following URL, replacing the example with your sitemap location and URL encoding everything behind the sitemap parameter:
https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com/sitemap.xml

could that be the culprit?

plugin is pushing to https://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap= but bing says it should be https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=

I guess not.. argh…

so I’ve tested the site with https://gtmetrix.com/ and I have followed what they said for Browser caching and I have a good A with that.

though I’ve noticed something interesting in regards to Gzip compression:

on Page speed insights, despite clearing the cache, he keeps saying “Enable compression” but Gzip is enabled, same thinjg goes on GTmetrix.

after testing on and off compression and htaccess I came to the following conclusion: 1) my Gzip works fine 2) both PageSPeed and GT metrix don’t detect it for some reason.. perhaps bc is with a plugin?

https://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and https://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test/ both report I have compression enabled so that makes me happy.. is there a way to force the other tools see the compressed version? tried both after loading with cache cleared, afterwards, etc, same result. Do they request a =no-cache?

thanks
Gabrio

did my reply came through?

thanks James

I have noticed something interesting… I enabled browser cachine and now https://gtmetrix.com/ gave me a higher score on that one, which is good.

however when it comes to “Enable gzip compression” both that one and Google’s page speed insights fail to detect properly.

I tried to enable Gzip via .htaccess with not much change, but the truth is that it’s enabled via a plugin called Super Cache.

The site is visibly much faster after caching and in fact if you go and check with https://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test/ or https://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php they correctly detect that.

my guess is that Google’s tool does not read the compressed file via the plugin correctly. At the bottom of the pages I see <!– Compression = gzip –> ??

many thanks,
Gabrio

well actually my plan was to have simple the sitemap.xml without having “sitemap” index, of course i know how that works…

however makes sense in a way to have the sitemap index with the child sitemaps for every month there….

still can i disable it and keep it all under one sitemap.xml and disable sitemap-misc.xml at all if ever?

thanks
Gab

for a 301? i disagree, is an important change for an SEO perspective.

but like i said, i would like to hear a dev because perhaps there’s some other reason why it does 302 by default, which is “temporary redirect”. perhaps they assume that the changes would be temporary but in my case they are not.

gabrio