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Tegan Snyder
Tegan Snyder

Reputation: 761

Smarty not rendering fast enough for Facebook Scraper to find meta tags

I use the smarty template engine and I have placed some Facebook meta tags on my site. It appears that Facebook's scraper is faster than the rendering smarty rendering engine.

Here is a link to the LINT tool's output: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/echo?q=http%3A%2F%2Fslipdragon.com%2Fvideo%2F6XA881OYRRHB%2FBmx-Street-Video--Vasya-L--Carhartt-Team

In my template I drawing the meta tags from variables assigned by the template engine:

<meta property="og:title" content="{$vdo.title|strip_tags|strip}" />
<meta property="og:description" content="{$vdo.description|strip_tags|strip}" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://slipdragon.com{$smarty.server.REQUEST_URI}" />

Any ideas how to set this up? It appears that smarty rendering of the template is too slow for Facebook's scraper . According to the LINT tool Facebook isn't evening seeing a og:title or any other meta tag properly populated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 541

Answers (3)

Toby Allen
Toby Allen

Reputation: 11213

I checked your url.

The values are blank, its got nothing to do with speed, Smarty tags are blank when they dont exist.

Somehow

{$vdo.title|strip_tags|strip}
{$vdo.description|strip_tags|strip}

dont exist, please try locally and get the values in before involving facebook.

Upvotes: 0

Tegan Snyder
Tegan Snyder

Reputation: 761

The problem was authentication. Facebook's LINT tool is not able to correctly parse the page because it is behind login credentials. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

rodneyrehm
rodneyrehm

Reputation: 13557

activate debugging and see how long the actual rendering of the template took. Unless you're doing some really funky things or screwed up badly - Smarty is not causing the delay. It's much more likely that some of your database queries, external resource lookups, etc. are the cause.

Upvotes: 1

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