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A serious flaw in PHP itself was fixed on October 21. If your site runs on WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento or another PHP platform, here is how to check your version and what to do.
Most AI fetchers and many first-pass search crawls don't run JavaScript. Every React app starts as an empty HTML shell. Here's what a bot actually sees when it visits your site, and how to fix it.
If your site is invisible to ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity, the standard advice is to migrate to a server-rendered framework. That is sometimes the right call. Often it is overkill. Here is the short version of how to decide.
You add a new marketing page, deploy it, and everything looks fine in the browser. But crawlers and AI fetchers see an empty HTML shell. The page was never added to the prerender route list, and nothing in the build warned you.
Before we shipped the GEO audit module, we ran the scan on Stackra's own site. Here is what it found and the four concrete changes we made in response.
A surprising number of small business websites are accidentally invisible to AI search. The fix takes five minutes. Here is exactly how to check and what to do if your site is blocking AI crawlers.
Most businesses searching this question are looking in the wrong place. Training data cutoffs are rarely the issue. Here is what actually determines whether AI mentions your business.
The FAQ had 9 question headings in the HTML and zero answers. Not CSS-hidden, but actually absent from the DOM. Here's why popular UI libraries do this, and the native HTML fix.
You ran a website audit and got back 200 issues. Now what? Most audit reports create confusion, not clarity. Here's what to look for in a report that's actually useful.
A Growth Readiness Score tells you how prepared your website is to support real business growth, not just whether it has clean HTML.
Six tools. Different strengths, different price points, different audiences. Here is what each one does well and where it falls short, including how established each one actually is by the numbers.
Sites running an SEO plugin, Tag Manager or analytics look different on two measures at once: better structured, and slightly slower. The gaps are nowhere near equal, and only one of them is a mechanism.
Custom code is not automatically faster than a site builder. One setting most people never see decides it, and you can check yours in about thirty seconds with no developer required.
A restaurant site, a SaaS product, and an auto dealer are not held to the same standard, and the data shows why. We measured 1.1 million US business websites across 26 industries on structured data, real-user Core Web Vitals, and conversion tooling. Here is where each sector actually lands.
Submitting your site to directories and launch platforms feels like SEO progress. Most of those links do little for your search rankings. Here is why, and what actually moves the needle.
Choosing Wix, or already on it, and wondering how it stacks up against Squarespace? Most comparisons rank features side by side. We looked at what actually happens to the sites: across 96,029 Wix and 86,994 Squarespace US small business sites, the differences that matter for Wix owners show up in performance and link authority, not feature checklists.
Wix and WordPress are the two most common ways a small business ends up with a website, and the SEO question is not which one is better. It is how each one works and what tools you get. Here is the practical rundown: the SEO tools, the AI tools, a few tips, and a couple of takeaways.
More traffic doesn't help if your website isn't converting. These 10 fixes focus on turning the visitors you already have into actual customers.
Before you spend thousands on a redesign, try these improvements. Most small business websites don't need to be rebuilt. They need a few key fixes.
Your website might look fine to you. But if visitors aren't turning into customers, something is broken. Here's how to spot the warning signs.
Every roundup of Google Analytics alternatives is the same five names in someone's opinion. Here is what a real check of 1.1 million small business websites found businesses actually installed instead.
Three free tools cover where your traffic comes from, what visitors do, and how search engines see your site. Here is what each one does, how to set it up from scratch, and how Stackra uses them.
GA4 is Google's free analytics platform. Here is what it actually tracks, which two reports matter most for a small business, and how to get started without a marketing background.
Shopify stores run a fully loaded stack. WooCommerce stores assemble their own. Squarespace and Wix stores run almost nothing. The platform you pick largely decides which of those you become.
Most 'best tools for restaurants' lists are opinion. We measured 137,970 US restaurant sites (and 242,371 worldwide) to see which platforms they actually run, what each one does, and where the whole category leaves money on the table.
Plumbers, HVAC, electricians, contractors. We checked 48,608 real US home-services sites to see what they actually install, and where the biggest gaps are (hint: speed and local schema).
You take your car in for service. You get annual checkups. Your website needs the same attention. Here's what a website health check actually covers.
These 7 mistakes show up on the majority of small business websites we've analyzed. Every one of them is costing you customers, and every one is fixable.
Think of this as a website health check you can do yourself. Most small business websites have fixable problems hiding in plain sight. This checklist helps you find them.
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