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You'll need to change the metadata of the pages being indexed. The help documentation provides some instruction on this:


http://help.bloxcms.com/knowledge-base/applications/settings/site/faq/article_96a473b2-2bf0-11e5-b049-f3a48a6666ae.html


If you've change the name of the paper and need the site's titles changed - you'll also need to update your settings in the menu entry Settings > Site. Note that it may take a bit for search engines to pick up the changes though there are ways to convince Google to check back a bit sooner in the webmaster tools for the site in Google:


https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

Custom dimensions could be used to track the logged in state of the user. It's also possible for us to look into tracking users more directly with GA's user tracking:


https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123663?hl=en&ref_topic=3123660


This may be needed to actually provide more useful conversion reports with ecommerce activities (such as a paywall). The ID can also be synced with the logged in user so cross device activities are better tracked.

Would it not be more useful to have this information in Google Analytics rather than in BLOX? If we were to add support to log back to GA that a user is logged in and/or if they are under an active subscription, would that not better satisfy this question and pretty much any combination of questions related? For example, you would also be able to ask questions like - of those users, what percentage used mobile - and what percentage of those users used iPhone vs Android? You could also see the break down of users by section - or pretty much any other data point GA is collecting.

I tested that URL on dev with the setting of 'articles with child media' set. I pulled one of the articles in manually - More Washington cases of deadly birth defect, but rate may be lower - and it loaded with a child image asset which was named the same with a caption of: Dr. Lisa Galbraith, who works in Prosser, Benton County, was the first to deliver babies with anencephaly, a rare and fatal birth defect. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times). That appeared to match this block:

<media:content type="image/jpeg" url="http://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5c63e51e-6963-11e6-a22e-f55a75bfd7c3-1560x1040.jpg">

<media:description type="plain">

Dr. Lisa Galbraith, who works in Prosser, Benton County, was the first to deliver babies with anencephaly, a rare and fatal birth defect. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times)

</media:description>

</media:content>

On May 13th, 2016, we made an emergency change to our stats software to fix legacy ad tracking. Stats were temporarily reset back to April 5th and reprocessed. All ad stats should have been reprocessed and restored early on Saturday, May 14th, 2016 including the missing data between April 5th and May 13th.

Hey Kevin,

I've got a feature request in to build it - TNCMS-4089: Sort block by last important update - but it has not yet been roadmapped for release. Our next roadmap meeting is actually next week so I'll make sure we review this one for planning.
Hey Kevin - I talked with the dev team here and can confirm the behavior you are seeing. Looking back at the feature request - the issue of whether or not important update would have a bearing on the index's modification time was brought up but not addressed at that time. The admin interface also uses that column for showing things there were recently updated - if it was changed solely to important update - it would change the meaning of the admin's view. In order to facilitate this, we would need to make last updated on the frontend use a different index field - we'll look into possibly offering that - but I can't promise an ETA just yet on that.
When an article is first posted, the last update time is it's start time. If you enable 'important updates' - the search index's last update time will only be modified if the update is marked as important after the first start time of the asset.
I tested a couple of the sites - you can improve the score of the browser caching by using the CDN (cms.page.cdn) module on global resources that were added to the site outside of the standard templates. Most of the 3rd party images and no expire content items can't be fixed unless you remove those elements from your sites (Twitter, Facebook, ad networks, etc.). Some of the statically linked images on your site are not optimal as well - you may want to bring those into Photoshop and save them using the lowest possible settings without sacrificing visual appeal. 

Another tool that can help is the PageSpeed Insights site, which is similar to that testing site but tends to be faster:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

If you have some specific items in the tests you would like to review, let us know!