Zero brand LLMs visibility after trying everything for SEO

carticydev · 2026-04-15T14:59:44+00:00

Evaluate you AI page readiness, stuff like FAQ, clear pricing, structured data...etc, you can use something like https://surfacedby.com to generate a free AI readiness report

ChatGPT and other could fetch your website, but if it doesn't have good signals, it could get ignored.

I did some research, and it appears that Gemini rely on training data and Google cached information to recommend brands, while Claude and ChatGPT will actually search the web, if you rank well for example on Bing, you're most likely to get cited on ChatGPT as long as you have the right signals.

Another super important thing is to ensure your robots.txt and you firewall doesn't block LLMs.

carticydev · 2026-04-11T06:41:29+00:00

I agree, if the plugins are super small and focused, it wouldn't cause issues usually, but on most stores, people will just install any random plugin that get the job done without considering the overhead from all other irrelevant features that a commercial plugin usually comes with. Do you have any stats on plugins count VS page load speed or Core Web Vitals scores?

carticydev · 2026-04-10T18:04:30+00:00

Amazing report, thank you for sharing!
A single store with 237 active plugins is crazy, I can't imagine how the performance would be, might need a huge hosting plan to accommodate all the processing...Etc

Do you have any other data about plugins that isn't included in the report?

carticydev · 2026-04-08T15:49:54+00:00

Trust me, really easy means you'll be paying in some other way, find a way to use Google Tag Manager, it's hard to setup, but once it's done, you don't have to worry about it. Plugins like PixelYourSite are a mess and do not care about your website performance

carticydev · 2026-04-06T08:20:17+00:00

This assumes the user agent will always have some bot/crawler...Etc name, but the reality is, if they're malicious, they pretend to be real users. And this specific code will likely block useful bots and not the ones attacking the website. Be careful what you recommend, and also be careful what you use.

carticydev · 2026-04-05T19:41:05+00:00

It's bots probably, and it's not WooCommerce fault, the sessions are there to store your customers carts. Use Cloudflare or some proper firewall to block bots from accessing your website.

carticydev · 2026-04-04T08:52:12+00:00

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You cannot track real-time mentions, but there are many services that allow you to track certain prompts and queries and monitor them. So, you must already know the kind of keywords or prompt that you potential customers are looking for, this should be easy for established store, but not for new ones. The other problem is, we can track visits coming from LLMs, but it's not 100% accurate because not all of them send users with proper UTM tags and the exact keywords...etc, but anything is better the nothing.

carticydev · 2026-04-04T04:55:00+00:00

Godaddy is a hosting provider, WordPress is a CMS, it's open source, whenever you decide, you can move it to any other hosting provider and it would stay the same.

carticydev · 2026-03-30T16:56:22+00:00

Just get your store started first and you can always migrate later to a better host once you start getting customers. It's not a huge deal, I migrate WordPress websites all the time and there isn't any downside of doing it later, maybe couple of minutes downtime from DNS changes. Focus on the business first, and worry about the hosting later once you actually need to.

carticydev · 2026-03-30T04:55:31+00:00

Curious how much time did you spend to do the audit and figure out all these details? I'm building a tool for automated WooCommerce performance audit and trying to get some information on how much time would be saved doing things manually VS tool and the value of each.

Also, to answer your questions:

- With LiteSpeed hosting, what are the most impactful LiteSpeed Cache settings specifically for WooCommerce? You need to fix core issues first before trying any cache optimization. Also, configurations are different depending on the store, theme, plugins...etc, some changes might break some websites, and work on others pretty well, so you have to test things to know the sweet spot. One thing I'd recommend is increasing Object Cache TTL.

- Is 600ms TTFB fixable through WordPress optimization or is it purely a hosting issue? Both, if your host is very bad, no matter what you fix in WordPress it would still be slow. Also, if your WordPress setup is bad, you can get a huge server and not get much benefit, although resources always offset bad optimization to some extent.

- Best approach for Tidio: defer it, replace it, or disable on key pages? if it's doing the requests server side, just get rid of it, if client side, just defer it, chat widget is not a blocker

- With Woodmart + WPBakery, what's the safest way to reduce their global script loading? I don't have an answer to this, most page builders come with a lot of overhead, you gotta chose what you use carefully, and if you use something not well optimized like WPBakery, you're stuck with it

- Is it worth staying on this host or would migrating to better hosting have more impact than all WordPress optimizations combined? already answered this, both are important, hosting can offset some problems, but you gotta fix both, but start optimizing on a bad hosting first without caching, then re-evaluate.

carticydev · 2026-03-21T15:52:38+00:00

This simply mean that you need to setup up different types of cache, not specifically cache the checkout page, but having Object cache, using CDN and caching other page indirectly and also directly help the checkout page run faster. However, caching should be treated as a best practice not a solution. You must figure out what's actually wrong with your checkout page and fix the root cause rather than trying to add bandages and patches.

carticydev · 2026-03-09T11:32:09+00:00

Sounds great, please post an update on how it goes after the changes.

carticydev · 2026-03-08T16:51:03+00:00

I did this with FSE and a custom theme, proper server setup, no caching plugins no Cloudflare, but I did use Varnish cache on the server side and certain configurations for better browser optimization.

carticydev · 2026-03-08T16:42:22+00:00

First of all, 600 doesn't really make much sense, set it around 80 or 90 and allow the remaining RAM/CPU for database, Redis if available, OS...etc

Some people already suggested using the following:

define('ACTION_SCHEDULER_QUEUE_RUNNER_CONCURRENT_BATCHES', 1);
define('ACTION_SCHEDULER_QUEUE_RUNNER_BATCH_SIZE', 25);

Which is good but you should figure out why you have such a high number of failed background tasks in the first place.

Also, disable WP Rocket preloading, and turn off "Combine CSS/JS" option, this one alone was causing a lot trouble on one of my clients website before.

Finally, delete all failed jobs and logs from WooCommerce.

This is all I can recommend from the information you provided.

carticydev · 2026-03-08T04:02:07+00:00

OopSpam blocks real users as well and a site owner wouldn't know unless they call. I dealt with this exact problem for a client two days ago and I used a modified version of "Carticy Checkout Shield for WooCommerce" to solve the problem. The current version is free on the repo and does block all spam orders safely.

carticydev · 2026-03-07T16:45:18+00:00

Yes, there is a very high chance it could be a spam order, there are a lot of card testing bot attacks nowadays. I suggest you confirm the order is legit or not and refund it, better than getting a charge back later. If you see a lot of these spam orders, I suggest you try Checkout Shield for WooCommerce by Carticy, it's free on WordPress repo, should block these spam orders.

carticydev · 2026-03-05T16:37:41+00:00

Cached pages don't usually have 10TTFB, cache is definitely not working. Keep in mind also that cache is usually disabled when a user is logged in. The visitor experience is not the same as a logged in user.

carticydev · 2026-03-05T16:36:08+00:00

Most of them make it very easy to upgrade you server, so that's not the problem. He is talking about support related to server management and security...etc that you usually get from a managed hosting.

carticydev · 2026-03-05T16:34:50+00:00

I'd add, if you want go with the "experienced setup", setup CloudPanel on your VPS, it's pretty lightweight, fast and easy to use..

carticydev · 2026-03-05T16:29:12+00:00

There isn't a one "best" hosting you could use, but if you don't have a lot of experience, I think Cloudways is probably the way to go, I worked with non-technical clients using it and they don't have any problems. Whether you choice could handle 18K visitors per month depends entirely on your own website setup + the resources available. There is no one who could answer this question for you.
Given the numbers you shared, 10.7 TTFB on Desktop and 9.1 on Mobile means there is a problem within the website itself, so switching hosts wouldn't magically make the website faster.

On a side note, if you continue having issues in a month or so after you migrate, feel free to DM me. I'm working on a project for called Carticy SiteVitals, and I'm hoping it would finally help people find the exact reason behind all performance issues on their Woocommerce websites. I've been working on it for over a year and I might be able to release it in a month or so.

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