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Service Worker Registration Issue on WordPress

Service worker registration detected but may have scope or caching issues that cause stale content or broken offline behavior.

Issue ID: TECH-SW-001Severity: advisoryEffort: M

Why this matters

Service worker registration detected but may have scope or caching issues that cause stale content or broken offline behavior. This affects crawlability, rendering, and whether the site can be interpreted correctly by search engines.

WordPress fix path

How to fix this on WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

  • Test in Chrome DevTools Application tab under Service Workers

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