Man, it would be great if you can make some training on GA4. I've all but stopped using GA because I can't figure it out. I mostly stick with Search Console these days.

Here are a couple of resources Tracking Your Progress with Google Analytics Installing and Working within GA4

hi Derek, ga4 is a pita...
i have started adding burst statistics plugin to my site to have a better view of my visitors...
or independent analytics plugin is another i have used...
within ga4 the info is there - but such a pain to get to it...

Your in great hands here with Partha — there is nothing more I can add, and looks like you question was answered.

-Mike

Hey Derek,

I've had to remove the RSS feed ability in the past, because I found a LOT of abuse with my content coming from a country that is well known for creating content for peanuts.

That was back when I had a plugin that was allowed to inform website owners as to WHO was abusing their WordPress site.

Since then, I've discovered other options to prevent theft of my content. See screen print below...

Should you choose to allow RSS feed on your WordPress website, then I highly recommend that you discover how to protect yourself from such a theft of your content, by reading through articles and tips that others have shared online.

Hope you find this helpful.

Hey Derek,

He's Alive!!! LOL.

How you doing?

I guess you're talking about Google Search Consle now showing X amount of posts, featuring "feed" at the end, listed as not being indexed?

I'm certainly no expert, but I don't think it makes any difference whatsoever.

The reason I say this is that RSS feeds are in XML format, the same as our sitemaps.

So, as long as you Sitemap has been submitted and crawled, I guess you're good to go.

I can see why you may want a number of different RSS feeds indexed on your site, e.g. categories, tags, comments, etc.

However, these are obviously for multiple pieces of content all bunched together.

I'm sure some TECHNICAL SEO genius would be able to answer better, but I personally don't understand what difference an RSS feed for an INDIVIDUAL blog post actually does.

If someone subscribes to the feed of an individual blog post are they expecting that article to be updated on a daily or weekly basis?

If they're following comments then they can obviously subscribe to a comments feed (if you've decided to index this).

However, I guess there are times when an individual blog post can be updated multiple times a day, off the top of my head, something like bank interest rates or currency exchange rates changing from hour-to-hour.

So, if these are listed as one individual blog posts then it could be a good idea to index that specific feed, then visitors can return easily as and when they want.

That said, with Google autocomplete and autosuggest, do we really still have to remember the name of individual websites or indvidual blog posts ever again?

But, for me, in recent years, the only reason I have used an RSS feed is for email marketing purposes (send out posts as soon as they are published).

Sure, I remember the days of Feedburner, Feedly, etc.

However, if your XML Sitemap is submitted and active, then your posts are eventually going to get indexed anyway.

Sorry, not much help really, just thinking out loud, LOL.

Partha

Couple things.

1. It's weird you are getting a score or 96 with a 3.5 second load time. Are you counting the seconds on your browser, or is that what the stats are saying. Is this for an individual page, or your home page?

2. Don't waste too much time going down the speed rabbit hole. If your site loads relatively fast, that's fine.

3. Are you intentionally ditching Kraken for WP Smush? Kraken comes with WA hosting.

4. I haven't used a CDN with WA hosting yet. Interested to hear what you figure out. I'd contact Carson though. He'll have a definite answer for you. They do hosting different here, so I'm not sure how that would work with a regular CDN.

My understanding is that a 3rd Party CDN doesn’t work with WA, as they have their own CDN in place. What I have found though, is if you use a WordPress Cache Plugin, such as WP Rocket etc, you have to turn SitePlus+ from Extreme to Accelerated, otherwise you will have conflicts.

Just reading comments

Hi, I have been investigating a bit on my own site, following the discussions on the same topic here at WA.

I have used Wordpress them Speaker´s Outlet with all the standard tools including Kraken for optimizing pictures. I installed Lazy Load to get a higher score on the speed test. It improved a little bit but not much. Before my scores eas around 50 for mobile and 96 for desktop.

Then I installed the Generatepress theme instead of Speakers Outlet and my speed jumped from 96/69 to 99/80. A good result except from the mobile score. Then I deactivated Lazy Load and got initially an increased score, but now it is down again to what it was before i started using Lazy Load.

I will try out both Autoptimize and Smush this weekend to see what will be the difference.

I am interested to know this too. I have had big issues with Website speed too.
Are you finding that WA Hosting + SiteSpeed Extreme doesn't give you enough speed Derek? Is that why you are looking at wpsmush as an alternative to SiteSpeed Extreme?

Sorry Derek, I don't know the answers, but as previously said Chrystopher is probably your best bet.
Gaz

Hey Derek. I cannot believe you didn't get any response to your question. We don't know the answer but would have thought someone would have a constructive comment to make.
We know that Chrystopher (https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/chrystopherj) uses WebP format all the time, have you tried contacting him?
Colette and Philip

Hi Derek, for the starter membership here in WA, members get the Jaaxy starter package which is 30 keywords searches.

On upgrading to WA premium members get Jaaxy lite included in the package which allows unlimited keyword searches.

Obviously, there are added features at that point.

Hope that helps,

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/jaaxy