Implementing Privacy Respecting Website Analytics using data anonymisation techniques and retaining the data yourself removes the need for ugly and annoying cookie consent banners maintaining compliance with privacy laws like GDPR.
By implementing the free Google Analytics tool, or GA on your website you get an extremely in-depth look at your website performance including traffic sources, page views, entry and exit pages etc.
Search engine friendly URL's (SEF), are clear to both humans and search engines as they provide a description of the content on the page that they point to.
If you want a page to be discovered you need to include descriptive text and keywords in the URL itself, so they are understandable by people, and are of great value in the search engine optimization (SEO) process.
Good webite hierarchy is an effective method of accomplishing this economically, and simply organising your content into descriptive categories, and subcategories is good practice.
This project involved migrating a Joomla 1.5 website to Joomla 3.6.5 and consisted of the following;
This involved analysing over 30,000 URL's on a Joomla website, investigating the options available, testing, developing a migration plan, installing JoomSEF to replace MijoSEF, producing a php script to modify the MijoSEF URL's, populate JoomSEF database tables with the URL's, removal of unwanted, and duplicate URL's in a test environment, followed by implementation on a live site.