Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
If you have already flushed the SEO Analysis Data and the issue still persists, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
Thank you, and we really look forward to helping you.
I’ll no longer give anyone access to my website, not even with a temporary login.
Also because the last time I did it you didn’t solve any problems and you changed settings that didn’t need to be changed and it took me a day to put everything back in place.
In any case, it is clear that there is a bug in your plugin because it has been reported to you so many times in the last few hours and by different users that it is useless for you to try to blame other plugins or the configuration of our websites.
All the free online tools I have tried for my website give me excellent results and report that everything is OK on aspects that your analyzer detects as errors.
I only point out that – in particular – your analyzer is not able to detect the page optimizations (HTML / CSS / JS minify and combine) made by LiteSpeed Cache, which instead is the best compared to all the others (just see the gtmetrix and PageSpeed Insights results).
Last thing: I don’t think you can include in the calculation of the SEO score the fact that a user has decided to use your Google Search console or not (I disabled it because it doesn’t work, it takes up KBs in my database unnecessarily and returns bogus data: if I want to see the Google Search Console dashboard I go directly to their site, and I’m sure I have REAL data)
Hello,
We deeply apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused on your site. We do not usually make changes on users site without their consent. If this happened on your site, it’s a fail on our end.
That said, to help us test this, would you mind running the SEO analysis on your site again then share a screenshot of the tests and the score. We will also need your site URL so we can test from our end and compare the results you get from your end and the results from our end. Have you also tried our external analyzer: https://rankmath.com/tools/seo-analyzer/
Lastly, the SEO analysis is an internal metric for use only to help you improve your site optimization. We include the test for search console connection as it is one of the boosts we have added to Rank math to help you in optimizing your site and improve your SEO performance.
All the tests by Rank math are only recommendations. Whether you pass or fail, the score you get with our analyzer doesn’t affect your site Ranking. You do not need to follow the guidelines religiously, if any test, like the search console test, is not something you consider on your site, feel free to ignore it.
Looking forward to helping you
My website is here: https://donpi.it
SEO Analysis results are the same with internal or external analyzer (internal also considers link to Google Search Console and some not optimized posts).
The problem (as you can see from the screenshot below) is that your analyzer (internal or external) can’t recognize my CSS, JS and HTML file as minimized and combined… instead they are! (as you can see clicking on the links).
In addiction, Mobile Snapshot is the same till two weeks
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Dggy8jBnXCzFnq7DA
Hello,
Thank you for keeping in touch with us and we apologize for the unexpected delays.
Upon checking your website, the SEO analyzer does detect your asset files as “unminified” even though they are actually minified.
Allow me to forward this issue to our developers. We will get back to you with a solution very soon. We appreciate your time and patience.
Hello,
Upon checking further, it does look like the CSS file is minified but there are some comments and additional whitespace that can be removed further:
Same with the JS:
We have made some tweaks to our SEO Analysis script though and we request you to run the SEO Analysis once again. If the data doesn’t update, please clear the SEO Analysis data from WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Status & Tools > Database Tools
Then, run the SEO Analysis once again.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Now CSS and JS are Ok
But your analyzer still says:
“The size of the HTML document is 58 Kb, over the average of 33 Kb and our recommendation of 50 Kb.”
This is NOT true! It’s 6,93Kb!
Look here: screenshot of my website HTML page info
Hello,
I checked your site with this tool: https://tools.pingdom.com/ and your site appears to be more then the said size:
Please check and let us know.
Looking forward to helping you
You’re joking, right?
Can you read my messages properly?
I said your parsing tool doesn’t detect the correct size of the HTML part of the page (and – before you corrected the script – it didn’t recognize CSS and JS correctly either).
125.9KB detected by pingdom is the size of the ENTIRE page (HTML + CSS + JS + 2 JPG) !!!
Moreover pingdom is an obsolete tool, because it doesn’t even detect that my page is compressed with the Brotli technology (from Cloudflare), which is much more efficient than the old gzip …
If you look at this screenshot (taken from pingdom) you will see that the HTML page size is 9.8KB – pingdom
And if you look at this other screenshot (taken from GTmetrix, which is a much more efficient tool than pingdom) you will see that the HTML page size is 8.2KB, and the total is 114.5KB. – GTmetrix
And if you look at this other screenshot (taken from Google PageSpeed Insights, another reference tool) you will see that the HTML page size is 8.1KB, and the total is 115.9KB. – PageSpeed Insights
And – finally – the screenshot of YOUR analysis tool, which insists on detecting the size of my HTML page as 58KB … RankMath SEO Analysis Tool
You have something to correct, don’t you think?
Hello,
We have taken note of your feedback and shared that with the dev. team. We will make changes to the tool to show more accurate details.
Thank you so much for sharing your valuable input with us.
Hello,
We have investigated the issue and found that in some cases, the page size test did in fact return an incorrect size. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
We have made some changes in the SEO Analyzer tool, now it shows the correct size when I test your site with it: https://rankmath.com/tools/seo-analyzer/
Since the same API is used in the SEO Analysis feature in the Rank Math SEO plugin, it should be working correctly there, too.
Hope that helps.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
