Release Notes – 2021.10.14

Highlights

• Page Load Speed 
  We continue to chip away at things that are slowing down our websites or hurting our page load speed scores.
  • server-side optimizations saving 100-150ms on initial document load.
  • html5 image lazy loading for website images, including listing photos.
  • remove more unused javascript
• Improved PPC Reporting UI
  Our PPC reporting interface now includes more options. We now show stats for ad groups and ads in addition to campaigns.
• Billing
  Preparations for upcoming price increases, promos and related features.

Updates

• NV-GLVAR gated keyword issues
  Updated keyword search lookups for NV-GLVAR after a data provider change deprecated previous mappings.
• AL-SAMLS Keywords
  Keyword search lookup tables for AL-SAMLS have been rebuilt after a data provider update deprecated previous mappings.
• VA-NNAR Keywords update
  Rebuilt keyword search lookup tables for VA-NNAR after a data provider change deprecated previous mappings.
• Lazy Loading Images for Elite Websites
  Our application images now include the HTML5 loading=“lazy” property, which enables native lazy loading in the browsers that support it. This improves load times and Pagespeed Insights scores.
• Elitev5 eliminate ih.require
  Third-party scripts in custom content now use react helmet to load.
• KS-TOPEKA basement keyword
  Fixed an issue with the basement keyword search term for KS-TOPEKA on react templates.
• TN-SMOKEY (and others) Restrictive Covenants keyword
  Added "Restrictive covenants" keyword search term for TN-SMOKEY on react templates.
• HI-CENTRAL add keywords
  Added various keyword search terms to HI-CENTRAL.
• CO-COMLS more keywords
  Added various keyword search terms to CO-COMLS.
• PPC Reporting UI - show individual Ad performance
  The Ads dashboard has been revised so that users can now toggle between 3 different report types (campaigns, ads groups, and ads). With this change, we can now evaluate the effectiveness (conversion rates) of our ad variants relative to one another (featured location variant vs idx results variant).
• Explicit dimensions for system images
  The ihouse logo image in the footer now has explicit height and width attributes. Various MLS logos images will also include explicit height and width parameters (after they are set up via MLSInfo).
• Know which photo fails to upload in file manager
  Added a more helpful error message when attempting to upload a file that's too large in the file manager.
• NV-ELKO keywords
  Keyword lookup tables have been rebuilt for NV-ELKO after a data provider change deprecated previous mappings.
• Elitev5 eliminate ih.modalIframe
  In custom content you can still set a link's target to "iframe on site" to open an external URL in a modal iframe, but we've rewritten the code to use a react version instead of the old jquery based legacy code.
• ApplicationHelper::snakeCase taking excessive amounts of execution time
  Optimized text formatting function to improve performance.
• LA-NOMAR fixer upper keyword
  Added "fixer upper" keyword search term to LA-NOMAR.
• More facebook privacy policy issues
  Update legacy privacy policy content to include clause regarding personal data deletion.

Bug fixes

• Featurette Cards widget - empty space
  If secondary text is omitted, we no longer draw the empty text area for featurette cards.