This issue is affecting THOUSANDS of shopify stores

Shopify Discussion
1

There is a new seo error on google pagespeed insights affecting God knows how many Shopify stores - if it’s affecting kyliecosmetics.com , it’s probably affecting yours.

The critical errors are in hreflang (error) and rel-caconical (error) , and also :

Preconnect to required origins - Error!

I’ve checked dozens of shopify stores on pagespeed insights- all showing the same error since last Thursday (2 days ago).

And I was chatting to technical support and they denied any server side update . So either google’s pagespeed insight is faulty, they released a new update, or Shopify released a new server side update causing the errors.

They need to look into this urgently. Our organic traffic has plummeted.

2 Likes
2

have you found an fix for this? It is affecting every Shopify store and not affecting any non Shopify platform such as magneto or other platforms

3

No fix. Shopify support have repeatedly told me to contact my theme developer, even tho it’s a shopify issue , they won’t provide any solution or even the cause of the problem.

4

I’m having the same issue at simpledesertdesigns.com as well. I saw the same drop overnight essentially. Have you gotten any new information since you posted last?

5

I just found this article which seems like it might explain a bit… https://www.digitaldarts.com.au/hreflang-tags-shopify

The fact that it changed overnight suggests something happened to cause this change to our sites.

6

I just spoke with Shopify support, and they told me it is an issue with Lighthouse, currently being resolved by them over there, and mentioned this thread for more info -

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/14934

So I guess it is just a matter of waiting it out, but at least a concrete answer.

1 Like
7

No update. Something happened overnight as you say that caused this fault. Could it be a redirection issue? Possibly. And Google are now punishing for that. I have Markets and shopify automatically direct customers to the correct subfolder. This is great becuase it avoids popups. Why use a popup if a customer can automatically land on the correct site? Thats great UX to me. Shopify also said before in one of their support documents that the redirection occurs in a way that you don’t get punished by Google.

I might try installing a geolocation popup just to see if it corrects this issue. I suspect it might actually fix it as the popup basically blocks thw automatic redirection.

1 Like
8

I’ve got the Geolocation popup on several of the sites I work on, and this issue still affects them, so no need to add it specifically for resolving this. It does sound like it is a Lighthouse glitch that is only affecting Shopify, so just a matter of waiting for it to get fixed their end unfortunately!

2 Likes
9

Thanks for this info Leanna! Didn’t want to mess around with more apps… our store is a delicate ecosystem prone to screwing up at the slightest interference!

1 Like