You dont honestly think i am relying on the word of one person who hasnt updated their plugin (although i am sure it would only get updated if it needed to be)

I am already using yoast and smush it and hummingbird and w3cache and loads of other things which are giving me a rating in the 90s with GT Metric but googles own pages are still giving me problems.

I have run through the official W3C Validator and these are the errors that it found :

Warning: The banner role is unnecessary for element header.
From line 65, column 1; to line 66, column 402
rap_all’>↩<header↩id=’header’ class=’all_colors header_color light_bg_color av_header_top av_logo_left av_main_nav_he…eader_border_disabled’ role=”banner” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/WPHeader&#8221; ><div↩i
Warning: The navigation role is unnecessary for element nav.
From line 78, column 167; to line 79, column 144
/a></span><nav↩class=’main_menu’ data-selectname=’Select a page’ role=”navigation” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Document uses the Unicode Private Use Area(s), which should not be used in publicly exchanged documents. (Charmod C073)
At line 330, column 47
t; value="" id=&quo
Warning: The main role is unnecessary for element main.
From line 351, column 20; to line 352, column 101
ntainer’ ><main↩role=”main” itemprop=”mainContentOfPage” class=’template-page content av-content-full alpha units’><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 358, column 1; to line 359, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Error: No p element in scope but a p end tag seen.
From line 386, column 128; to line 386, column 131
div></div></p><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 404, column 1; to line 405, column 97
iv></div>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 413, column 1; to line 414, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 419, column 1; to line 420, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 429, column 1; to line 430, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 435, column 1; to line 436, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 445, column 1; to line 446, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 451, column 1; to line 452, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 463, column 1; to line 464, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 468, column 1; to line 469, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 478, column 1; to line 479, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 482, column 1; to line 483, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 495, column 1; to line 496, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 500, column 1; to line 501, column 97
/section>↩<section↩class=”av_textblock_section ” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/CreativeWork&#8221; ><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 545, column 54; to line 546, column 49
</section><section↩id=”text-13″ class=”widget clearfix widget_text”><div↩c
Warning: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections.
From line 569, column 85; to line 570, column 47
_fourth ‘><section↩id=”newsbox-5″ class=”widget clearfix newsbox”><ul↩cl

Please forgive me if i am wrong, i am still learning, but From what i can see these are source code issues that have been there a long time but now google is penalising sites for not being up to scratch.

Please tell me how i go about fixing this issues.
surely if i change anything in the source it will get overwritten in the next update – wouldn’t it be better if these things were addressed for everyones benefit?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by PhatJ.