A quick blog post to announce a pretty big step forward for 4AI in version 5.0. Since its appearance nearly two years ago, 4AI has worked by using the OpenAI AI service. OpenAI are the makers of ChatGPT and at the time, they were not only the obvious choice as a provider for an AI API, but essentially the only one.
Google Gemini models in 4AI
I've been continuously monitoring and testing all the various API providers which have appeared over the last 2 years: Claude, Mistral and of course DeepSeek just recently.
None of them appeared valid choices to be part of 4AI, either for reasons of price, availability, reliability or just speed.
This changed on February 5, when Google released Gemini version 2.0. Gemini is fast, much faster than OpenAI, it works very well and is essentially free for use in 4AI, as Google's free tier allows up to 1500 requests per day free of charge.
I am super happy to announce the release of a brand new Joomla extension that I have worked on for the past few months: please welcome 4Analytics!
I'm sure you arealdy guessed by the name: it's a fully-featured analytics extension, one that I believe brings a few things not available just yet in the Joomla ecosystem.
But why?
For what seems like forever, measuring your website traffic was synonymous with opening a Google Analytics account, and adding a few lines of javascript by copy/pasting them to your template index.php file, or adding a plugin just for that.
But then came a few things that changed the landscape:
privacy laws, such as GDPR in Europe, CCPA in California and a lot more in various countries around the world
an actual concern for privacy by a growing number of users (ads and cookie blockers extensions)
the "need for speed", or why have Google or other load several hundreds kilobytes of javascript doing plenty of things only them cared about, while you are fighting to optimize all your content and images for speed?
the complexity of navigating analytics services dozens of pages and reports
My name is Yannick Gaultier. I'm from France. I'm here to talk today about search engines and SEO and what's happening. Here are the sponsors of the event. I'm not one of them, but let's, uh, so here there are the people who can make this event happen and please use their extensions, their services.
My own company is called Weeblr.com and I have been involved with Joomla since about 2005. I've been doing extensions mostly in the field of SEO. I had an extension that has been running for 15 years called SH404SEF, which was all about SEO. Since the pandemic, I have completely renewed all these extensions and I'm running a series which are now 4AI, 4SEO, 4SEF, 4Podcasts, 4video, and 4logs. Recently, 4Command. All of them have in common that they are focused on SEO or content, which is basically one and the same.
But today, I'm not going to talk about any of my extensions and I'm not going to talk about detailed SEO. Maybe what you're expecting like, what exactly which settings should I set and how should I set them in J to do good SEO? Because of course, that does not exist. That's usual SEO talk. But today I want to talk about HCU and AIO. Does anyone know, is it familiar to anybody here? Oh, that's excellent, that's excellent.
Per the title, here is the full video of my talk earlier this month at JoomlaDagen 2024 about all that's happening in the land of Search Engines (a lot is...)
I am an SEO guy. For the last 15 years, I have kept learning SEO, analyzed SEO blog posts and announcements daily and tried to put all that learning and tracking in a number of Joomla extensions such as 4SEO or 4SEF.
And SEO has been all about content for a while now, so I have also made extensions to assist with content:
4AI since Artificial Intelligence is here now to create content, text or images, translate, check-spell, summarize, tweet or write meta-descriptions
4Video because videos are important for today's sites, but you need to pay attention to performance when adding them
4Podcast as podcasting is a growing medium for people to consume what you have to say
All that to say that I know Joomla fairly well, and here at Weeblr, we have a history of technically advanced, modern Joomla extensions that are maintained and supported over time.
But one thing I am not is a seasoned Joomla website administrator. So maybe I could use a bit of help?
