Improving Core Web Vitals settings on Drupal websites

19.07.2022
Google ranks website pages based on their user-friendliness - the better the page, the higher you rank in search results. To assess page quality, Google uses Core Web Vitals, a system of metrics that shows how comfortable a user is interacting with a web resource. We'll tell you what makes up a website's page quality score and how Initlab can help improve all the metrics that Google monitors.

Google AMP setup for Drupal 8 and 9

21.02.2022
Google has Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology. Briefly: Google generates prepared pages in lightweight mobile versions that are loading faster and shows them in search results above the rest. Because Google wants the Internet to be more comfortable for users - they should not wait long. But Google does not create AMP automatically - it needs to be connected and some pages require optimization to display in AMP format.

Remote PHP debugging with Xdebug and PhpStorm

13.05.2021
Xdebug is a PHP extension that, as the name suggests, enables debugging and profiling of PHP scripts. This extension boosts developer’s productivity by speeding up the debugging information loop. With Xdebig, the developer spends less time finding out the reasons behind errors and understanding the logic of operation of an unknown block of code.

How we teach SEO and optimize Drupal-powered websites

10.10.2019

Daria Bochkareva, head of the website promotion and content support department at Initlab, delivered the “SEO Fundamentals, schema.org markup” lecture to students of the Kuban State University. Daria covered the main SEO aspects and tools and gave examples of the structured markup compliant with schema.org. The students will apply the acquired knowledge when doing the web dev tasks given to them at the website development course they attend at the Faculty of Computer Technology and Applied Mathematics of KubSU.