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Description
This might require extra care due to Bluegenes being a SPA.
https://intermine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/webapp/monitoring-site-usage/search-engines/
*Steps we should take:*
- Generate a sitemap similar to that used in legacy webapp (https://legacy.flymine.org/robots.txt -> https://legacy.flymine.org/sitemap-index.xml -> https://legacy.flymine.org/sitemap0.xml)
- Permanent URLs for a bunch of common report pages
- ~~Best way to implement this would be to track popularity of each report object, and have a web service which returns these~~
- It seems we would rather have **all** the genes and proteins for the main organism be linked in the sitemap - this is currently generated with a [python script](https://github.com/intermine/intermine-sitemaps)
- URLs to all public lists
- URLs to all templates
- Use *Google Search Console URL inspection tool* to see what the crawler sees for each of these page types
- Ideally, we should prerender/SSR
- Homepage
- Specific template page
- Specific list page
- Specific report page
Resources for prerendering:
https://medium.com/@joelsanchezclj/prerendering-a-re-frame-app-with-chrome-headless-bb875de31fd0
https://techascent.com/blog/isomorphic-rendering.html
Remember to ping Google once new sitemap is in place: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/build-sitemap
(If the sitemap is dynamically generated, we need to ensure to automatically ping Google when it changes.)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked monitoring guidance, the legacy robots.txt and sitemap chain, and the intermine-sitemaps Python script. Use Google Search Console URL inspection to compare the homepage, template, list, and report page types; done requires a sitemap covering the requested public URLs and a clear decision on prerendering or SSR.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- clojure, python
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100