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    accessibility issues complained by Google

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    we recently upgraded to Cubecart 6, and really like it.

    when checking on core vitals of our website, we noticed that google consistently complained about some accessibility issues. Here are list some from our website, but I suspect it's universal:

    Buttons do not have an accessible name:

    form.search_form > div.row > div.small-2 > button.button
    <button class="button postfix nomarg nopad" type="submit" value="Search">
     
    Form elements do not have associated labels:
    form.panel > div.row > div.small-3 > input.quantity
    <input type="number" name="quantity" maxlength="3" value="1" min="1" class="quantity required text-center">

    I wonder what can be done to solve the problem?

    core web vitals issues with Google

    in Technical Help

    Posted · Edited by volteq

    I think most of the core vitals problems are addressed, except a yellow flag on Cumulative Layout Shift.

    we typically have 3-4 pictures on the product page, and that somehow casued issues on the desktop with Foundation skin. A suggestion was given that we should define the size of the image instead of 80% that we used. mobile device seems OK.

    My question is: if we do specify a size for the image, what size should we specify? would that cause problem for the mobile device?

    Here is a link to product page, in case you need it: https://volteq.com/regulated-adjustable-linear-dc-power-supply-hy1503d-15v-3a.html

    core web vitals issues with Google

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    that does it. You are a life saver. Thank you so much!

    with your help, I was able to get one of our page down to good performance, see this:

    https://volteq.com/volteq-regulated-variable-dc-power-supply-hy5003d-50v-3a.html

    however, even though Lighthouse reports 1.4s FCP and 1.8 LCP. the pagespeed test for core vitals still shows 2.7s and 2.8s. Very confusing, as the  "Diagnose performance issues" section shows numbers that agrees with Lighthouse.  

    is page speed for core vitals showing old data?

    core web vitals issues with Google

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Thanks! I was able to get the server side (hosting compan) to do compression, and that took care of this issue. I will check your code to see if it can add more compression.

    Another thing I did was to compress the images using webp format, which also helps.

    now the biggest issues I am encountering is related to render-blocking resources, and google fonts turns out to be a big one, specifically this one:

    https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700

    Not sure if we are using this, if not, how can we get rid of this?

     

    Thanks again in advance

    core web vitals issues with Google

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    it's really frustrating working with google on almost everything, whatever they do, they make it so complicated:(

    we have seen the core vitals going up and up like bi-polar disorder in the past, with us doing nothing on our website.

    does cubecart allow image compression for product pages?

    core web vitals issues with Google

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    we have recently upgraded to Cubecart 6, and have been going through improvements. we recently discovered that our whole mobile website has been flagged for performance issues. the desktop version seem to be fine with google, but the mobile pages all have the same issues. below are some sample product pages:

    https://volteq.com/2kva-variac-transformer-2000va-0-250v-220v-input.html

    https://volteq.com/volteq-regulated-variable-dc-power-supply-hy5005d-50v-5a.html

    can anyone please suggest ways to improve the performance?

    thanks in advance

    FedEx does not work?

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    thanks for your input. I did remove the country and added it back, clear the cache in different combinations and it still does not work.

    maybe you can help me by telling me where does the cubecart decide if an order is from US? I will check to see where it went wrong. 

    Just so you know, we have been using the module "by weight" for many years and it works for the same test address.

    Thanks in advance.

    FedEx does not work?

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    we recently upgraded to cubecart 6 and FedEx module to 1.05. when I tried to use FedEx module for shipping for US address, with the US set as the only country and shipping origin using a US address, it gives out a message saying that the website cannot take an international order, so somehow it is detecting the country incorrectly. have anyone got the FedEx module working for a US address?

     

    a lot of system errors

    in Technical Help

    Posted · Edited by volteq

    we have recently upgraded to cubecart 6 and it works great. however, I just noticed that there are a ton of system errors in the log, and they all seem to originate from the same file, and look something like this:

    [<strong>Warning</strong>] /home/.../public_html/classes/ssl.class.php:39 - Undefined array key "_g"

     

    [<strong>Warning</strong>] /home/..../public_html/classes/sanitize.class.php:114 - Security Warning: Illegal array key "&lt;?xml_version" was detected and was removed.

    do we have issues or it's normal?

    thanks in advance

     

    also this seems really strange on the error list:

    [<strong>Warning</strong>] /home/.../public_html/classes/session.class.php:676 - Undefined array key "HTTP_USER_AGENT"
    http://173.287.252.35:80/

    what is the best practice for urls after upgrading

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    we recently upgraded to Cube Cart 6, and use the tools that came with it to re-built the SEO friendly urls, which are different from the ones we had before. By doing so, we have created some issues and chaos, as customers coming in via google search will face a broken link, which is pretty nasty. I wonder what is the best practice on how to deal with the chaos between old and new urls. come to think about it, by using the new urls, we may also lose a lot of back-links. 

    Would really appreciate some good advices.

    Thanks in advance.

    change the font about public folder

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    thanks for your help. I have hence added the index.php, and it should be working now. the css file was actually good, but my index.php file was missing a line to set the view port. In case someone also was working on something similar, here is the index.php:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>Directory Listing</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Directory Listing</h1>
        <table>
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th>Name</th>
                    <th>Last Updated</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <?php
                    $files = scandir('.');
                    foreach ($files as $file) {
                        if ($file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != 'index.php' && $file != 'style.css' && $file != '.htaccess' ) {
                            $last_modified = date('M j, Y g:i A', filemtime($file));
                            echo "<tr><td><a href=\"$file\">$file</a></td><td>$last_modified</td></tr>";
                        }
                    }
                ?>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </body>
    </html>

    Here is the link to the directory, in case you want to see how it looks like: https://www.volteq.com/files/public/

     

     

    change the font about public folder

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    thank you for your information. I created index.php and style.css files, and was able to manipulate the format somewhat. the funny thing is that I can change the fonts on the desktop, but on the mobile device it does not seem to respond to the style sheet. Here is my .css file content:

     

    table {
                border-collapse: collapse;
                width: 90%;
            }
            th, td {
                text-align: left;
                padding: 5px;
                border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
                font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
                font-size: 20px;
            }
            th {
                background-color: #4CAF50;
                color: white;
            }
            p {
                font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
                            padding: 2px;
                font-size: 20px;
            }

    tr:nth-child(even) {
        background-color: #f2f2f2;
    }

    @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
        body {
            font-size: 18px;
        }
    }

    product listing with truncated title

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    we recently upgraded to the cubecart 6 and really liked the foundation skin.

    One issue we just noticed is that the product listed under a category all have truncated titles when viewed on a mobile device or when viewed with the three columns on desktop.

    How can I change it so that the full title is shown, especially for mobile device?

    thanks in advance!

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