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YLB Score › The checks, explained › Part III, Will a stranger trust you?

A piece of code on your site is out of date

An older shared library on your pages has known security holes. It is usually there because a plugin or theme brought it years ago and nobody has touched it since. Updating it closes the holes.

Your web person will know it by name.

Worth about 1 point of your 100 for a typical businessAbout afternoon, by your web person

See for yourself

Ask your web person which version of the shared library the site loads; they will know which one we mean. Anything before 3.5 is the finding.

How to fix it

  1. Update the library, or the plugin that bundles it, and test the site afterwards.
The technical version, for your web person

jQuery. Any jquery-x.y.z reference below 3.5.0 in the homepage HTML.

What the check reads. Regex-extracted jQuery version strings in the homepage HTML, compared against 3.5.0.

This is one of the checks in a YLB Score report. Every report is free, read by a person before it goes out, and written so that you can act on it without us. Ask for yours.