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Just some technical advice from a wordpress guy here: * Your wp-content/uploads file is still visible. So if I visit www.flightabovephotography/wp-content/uploads - I can see everything you've uploaded to the site. It is also a possible route for hackers. Have a look at this guide to fix it. Not a massive job but it's a big security factor * I'd change the log in address away from wp-admin. Leaving this at the standard address could leave you open to brute force attacks. Definitely do this urgently if your username is "admin" (But you wouldn't do that... right?) * Consider getting a domain email instead of gmail. Personal preference for me perhaps, but I have much more confidence in businesses that have done that step, looks a lot more professional to me. * You're not using a lot of plugins. This is good! Running your site through GTMetrix does show a couple of areas where you could improve the load speed of your website. Consider downloading a smush plugin that compresses the size of your images. I appreciate that as a photography firm the quality of your images is key, but the home page is big at over 5MB. There's a balance there somewhere to be found. *I think the design looks great. Well done! Good luck with your business.
How are gtmetrix.com and https://webpagetest.org not on this list?
They are better than every tool listed.
Please note, google's tools are good, but don't rely on them. Getting a good score just means you stripped things down to match the very specific things they are looking for.
The two sites i listed above will show you all your images that aren't compressed [gtmetrix generates compressed versions for you to download]
They also show you the server headers you might be missing and various other useful stats.
Another thing to mention is the googe lighthouse built into chrome's dev tools. That one's a quick test that's proven to be very useful as it also does some accessibility tests.
Not to mention how poorly optimized it is, it takes so long to load.
Edit for context: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/store.steampowered.com/mnpEYbvz
During the fall sale it was awful and got a F.
Well, if you wanna do it yourself the first and the easiest thing that you can do is to reduce the size and the dimensions of the images.
For example that After Effects icon that you use is 2000x2000 px and it's used on the website just at 45x45 px.
Check this links for more, they are some of the best resources: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=ro https://gtmetrix.com/
Honestly, below a certain point, filesize doesn't matter that much (unless your target audience is either mobile users or rural dialup users). What matters a lot more is the performance + speed of the site - stuff like caching, minification, etc. Using GTMetrix to check the YSlow / PageSpeed scores of my sites has helped a lot.
That fully loaded time isn't really meaningful. At least for me, all visible content is loaded within 4 seconds, which is the same as the old site for me. The reason it takes so long to fully load is because they are deferring things like less-important javascript and off-screen thumbnails until after the page's main content is visible. GTMetrix doesn't register that because it's all done in Javascript, not HTML. They've done a lot of optimization the past couple weeks.
Also, compare old.reddit.com. It's just as slow according to GTMetrix.
First of all, Good Job! I also learn to make websites by watching youtube and now I'm working as a Website Developer. There are a couple of this I saw you can change it make it look more professional.
I see that you're using WordPress with elementor and Woocommerce.
- The theme you're using is OcewnWP; which is a really good ecommerce theme.
- Make sure the top slider is full width. There is a small margin around it.
- Install RankMath SEO and configure it.
- Use CDN like cloudflare. It's free.
- Follow this link https://gtmetrix.com/reports/y2kcellular.lk/oTFTD4jM/ cloudflare should fix the cache issues and slow loading. If now, look at the "What does this mean" button and you can see how to fix it.
- Buy elementor pro when you have money and make custom header, footer, and custom product pages.
No, she didn't do a good job at all.
A designer is not a developer is not an seo person, especially in this case. Like /u/thedifferenceisnt said, this isn't a travel website, the CTA needs to be there on the front page.
The first things you need to fix asap (atleast on the homepage) :
Image sizes (seriously, you've got a 3.1 mb image on the home page)
404 errors (how do you expect anyone to email you if there is nothing to email about?)
Defer parsing of javascript (You've got 1.7 mb of javascript parsing out of which 963kb is from the youtube player!)
Add CTA on the home page where the 'Write your italian story' is
That'll take care of the loading speed and broken links, and get visitors emailing you with questions again.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/getitaliancitizenship.com/pncWqfd9
The drop in rankings is common, and will pick up soon but only if all the links are working. The fact that there were email issues for 2 weeks, and that they didn't take a backup is proof that they either don't know what they're doing or don't care. Seriously get them to fix it ASAP or atleast refund part of the total payment, you've paid good money for this.
If they don't do it, or don't want to, feel free to PM me if you need help fixing this.
It's Google Page Speed Insights, it doesn't actually check page speed, but provide suggestions on ways you could improve your page speed. If you want an accurate measurement of page speed I would recommend GTMetrix instead.
The scores alone are quite meaningless. How does it compare with some sites that you frequent. For example Reddit is at 60/76 for the test.
I'm hoping some other people can recommend some plugins, but I think the common ones used are W3 Cache and WP Rocket.
Haven't been following this.
Did VeChain agree to consider this new website?
What if you put all this time into the site and they say, "naw, no thanks." For all we know, they may have spent 100k on the site and they're not just going to toss it away.
P.S. Looks great, but took 4.3s to load and is 33mb! https://gtmetrix.com/reports/dev.valhallavet.io/5q5Spfud
You already know your content leans on the thin side...I'd revisit that as soon as possible. Google likes longer content and a lot of readers dig it too, judging from my experience.
As someone mentioned, your site is slow. Here's what GTMetrix shows. Try a plugin like W3 Total cache and fetch some Gzip compression to speed things up a bit. Things like this matter, and they matter a lot.
5-10 visits per day is not a bad start! Make sure you exclude all bots/crawlers from the admin settings in GAnalytics and also block your IP, if you haven't already.
Remember to not give up easily! At some point you can go for a free Ahrefs 14-day trial. Check your competitors' pages there and see for what KWs they rank so you can optimize better :)
Your site is slow.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/thecleardiamond.com/vfo6jMYG
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/thecleardiamond.com/iVN25P5e Ask your developer to enable caching, minify the css and js and enable gzip compression. However, this theme is very heavy and your result will not be perfect. Also work on site credibility. Add ask question form(it is easy from admin-theme-settings) and put somewhere in the header your about us and meet the team pages. Also add to these pages some images - the team and any certificates. Under the testimonials you can add also a photo gallery with real people images (there is theme module for this). Be careful - your images have to be optimized to reduce the page load time. Write longer product descriptions.
You can use Web.dev, webpagetest or gtmetrix to troubleshoot speed issues. Here's a GTMetrix result for your site.
Top priorities:
- Too many resources. Your page is making 500+ HTTP requests for a full pageload. That's bananas.
- Unoptimized images - compress and resize your images. One is over 1MB
- Defer JS and Styles - You're loading 50+ resources before your first paint. It should be under 10 and ideally under 5.
A lot of this probably stems from your AJax page loading. Don't try to put everything on your homepage at once. Instead, plan a site structure that helps visitors find what they need.
I use https://kraken.io/web-interface to quickly compress images. Or imageoptim if you are on a Mac. Finally depending on how confident you feel, you can also look at lazy loading images. Basically when the webpage loads, only the images that are visible will be downloaded. Can really help speed up your page loading speed.
A service like https://gtmetrix.com is really good at guiding you on what enhancements you can also make.
>Elementor/elementor pro
https://onlinemediamasters.com/slow-elementor-website/
It's pretty easy to get a fast elementor site if you know how to optimize it.
Here are my gtmetrix results of my site:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.lonecbd.com/yZiPHaKe/
It's totally possible and very easy to achieve the same results. It's faster than pretty much any site i've ever tested.
I'd be happy to write up a small guide to all my optimization plugins used if you're interested.
l'home page di reddit pesa almeno 6.13mb, ma scrollando o muovendo il mouse diventano subito quasi 8mb; se ci sono video si arriva anche a 14mb, solo di player e precache (senza i video)
in situazioni ideali (da datacenter) l'home richiede 2.7s solo per il first paint e quasi 7s per la prima interazione, il DOM ha quasi 3k elementi e su (minime) 400 connessioni solo il 6.5% è html e il 3.8% css, il resto è tracking e merda
con il 23% di performance reddit redesign è catalogato come sito di categoria "F" (sotto ci sono solo le landing page, i phishing fatti male e le pagine che minano bitcoin)
viceversa, old è al 53% di performance e catalogato come "D"
(i.reddit invece è categoria "B", peccato sia solo un meme)
Yep your site speed is terrible
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.lemonbuba.com/WIgH800i/
But it looks like it’s built with wix and they are one of the worst for speed and SEO
The GT Metrix Page tells you what is wrong. To the right of each of the top issues is a down arrow which you can click and a section will appear with quick suggestions, and there is also a a blue "learn how to resolve this" button you can click for generalized information on the topic. For example. hereis how to eliminate render blocking resources, which is something you should do to improve performance.
As far as other things you can do, honestly, not hosting with GoDaddy is a start. They're not known for the fastest websites around. Who your web host is also has a lot to do with performance, their servers could run slow as turtles and some hosts specialize in high performance stuff.
Your site doesn't seem slow, about 3 seconds. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.functionallyrestorativefitness.com/QSL6D0ze
Biggest issue is to reduce image sizes.
The way WordPress and themes work, it's nearly impossible to eliminate render blocking elements. But, that's not a huge issue. I'm majority of cases you can get 1-2sec speeds with render blocking elements.
When working with any caching plugins like W3TC or Autoptimize, you have to test various settings to find what works for your setup. Every WordPress site is different, loads different assets, so you need to find settings that work for your site without breaking it.
I would also ditch Jetpack. It can slow down your site.
There seems to be quite a few issues that are impacting the load time for this page. Based on first glance, it could be relating to some bulky JS files, animations or images, but my guess is it could be a bit more serious, here are a few potentials:
There's an external source that is being requested (i.e. using a JS file hosted on a CDN or Github) that is no longer working or blocking your requests
Theres some sort of redirect in place that's causing an endless loop when the page tries to load, i.e. redirecting the home page in to the home page.
There's some issue with the code being created poorly, i.e. putting a loop within a loop within a loop that is just making way too many requests to your DB.
We've created an article detailing some of the most common issues and what you can do about them here:
Improve PageSpeed for Wordpress Websites
Also, here's a report from GTMetrix on how your site is doing currently: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/sundragonpottery.co.uk/nKJzGpFN
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My WooCommerce site's index page loads in under 2 seconds.
I use the Storefront theme with several dozen plugins.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/alijammusic.com/1DbbeuBU
I could probably spend hours tweaking it more, and I made a mistake by not using a cookieless CDN.
The two things that improved my score the most:
Autoptimize. This did more than anything else.
Excellent, not-cheap hosting. I use TMD Hosting, have one of the pricier VPS plans, and am very happy.
You can control when the scripts are loaded. Have them load at the very end. If you're worried about speed, use https://gtmetrix.com/ to analyze your sites load times in depth.
Of course they do! If a website is taking too long to load, most users will leave. If an ad is annoying, users are likely to leave. Google has strict policies for publishers on what they can and cannot publish.
I generated a report over at gtmetrix for you. Basically tells you what to improve: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.toleratedcinematics.com/AMmAMzQX
Specify image dimensions is what you should be doing for a start. You also have a lot of HTTP requests. Minification can help with that. But I can also see these are coming from external resources, so you might not want to combine them but put them into the footer OR use a lazy loading script.
Otherwise it has good speed here in germany.
This is an amazingly good tool and I will definitely use it to improve upon myself.
Additionally I would love if you could have a look at this:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/gw2wingman.nevermindcreations.de/oxgqqCs5/
so you can improve the load times of the pages because the initial load of each page takes ~1 minute to render.
Finally, thank you for this!
Yes, there are several things. Using a tool such as GTmetrix or PageSpeed Insights and reviewing the output is a good starting point
Here's a report from GTMetrix. Looks like you're doing everything mostly right. But it's a big page. 1.9MB and taking 5.7s to load. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/baidenmitten.com/y8bxhbfX Need to compress some images. Look into Expires Headers. I noticed in the water fall there's a 2.3 second waiting. That's a lot. But wait, There's a redirect happening. I tried http and the site is https. Retested with https you're even better. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/baidenmitten.com/439UEHpA
All in all, you're not horrible. I've seen many client sites that were scoring straight D's.
With a site that large, I would get a dedicated (and beefy) private server to host from.
That plus the standard optimization plugins like W3 Total Cache will do you good.
Use https://gtmetrix.com to check your site for areas of improvement and run with those.
Hey, I'm not applying for the job. Just swinging by to give you a friendly warning about your website.
In one word it's a mess. Really slow and clunky, it ruins the whole user experience. You can see the Gtmetrix report here:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.mytoxicfreefuture.com/rqsMcvyr
Too many requests and performance issues for seemingly a straight forward website that is supposed to promote your product. Complex web apps are faster and smoother than this.
Here it is on my own browser on a 100mbps u//d optical fiber internet connection:
I hope this is useful to you somehow.
Stoppe einfach mal mit, wie lange du tatsächlich für solche Projektabwicklungen brauchst.
Mittelgroße Agenturen verkaufen die oben umrissene Kleinwebseite ab ~6.000€, wobei da aber der Kunde vorher Grafikentwürfe bekommt, bzw. noch 3+ Treffen inkludiert sind, in denen alles professionell fixiert wird. Die geben dann oft am Ende noch einen Auszug von https://gtmetrix.com/ dazu, bei dem die Werte in Ordnung sind, damit der Kunde sieht, dass alles vernünftig gelöst wurde. Manchmal werden auch userrelevante Kapitel von irgendeinem Wordpress/etc. Buch ausgedruckt, halbwegs schick gebunden und als Hilfe für die Leute dort da gelassen. Natürlich hebt dort zu Geschäftszeiten ständig eine Sekretärin ab und der Support funktioniert flott (wenn dafür bezahlt wird).
Für viele Projekte ist das aber Overkill, oder das Budget gibt nicht genug her, so greifen die Leute zu Freelancern. Wenn du da bei ~50% vom Agenturpreis bist und vernünftige Leistung bringst, sind die Leute i.d.R. mehr als happy.
Ausnahme sind natürlich Kleinstbetriebe, die von einem Freund gehört haben, dass der Enkel vom Seppl, der HTL Schüler ist/einen WIFI Kurs absolviert hat/etc., in den Ferien eine Webseite um 500€ gebastelt hat, die eh super ausschaut. Die sterben nie aus, würde ich aber persönlich meiden, wie der Teufel das Weihwasser, wenn du nicht frühzeitig graue Haare bekommen willst.
This tool is pretty good for reporting on site performance and it also provides some recommendations for improvements:
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.myclean.com/B3B5Ftvd
The first thing I noticed is that it's saying you aren't presently using a CDN (Content Delivery Network), or perhaps you're using a CDN that it doesn't recognise.
I'd encourage you to sign up for a free account at https://www.cloudflare.com and configure it to front-end your site. There's no need for a paid account until you're doing a huge amount of traffic; odds are you'll never need a paid account.
CloudFlare has a bunch of useful features, for me the main performance-related ones were the CDN and a couple of proprietary speed enhancements called Auto Minify and Rocket Loader. My site was already performing pretty well, but those features cut the load time substantially, from 2.1 seconds to 1.1 seconds.
Also, using CloudFlare for your DNS is a nice bit of free insurance against your webhost being targeted in a DDoS attack one day.
I've only been using CloudFlare for about 6 months and all of my sites are just on free plans, but I think it's a brilliant utility. I think every website should use it, highly recommended.
A big part of SEO is problem finding, and solving.
Bltonwhite has already noticed one thing that needs optimising, I clicked your site, and it took 6.7 seconds to load.(https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.actisspartners.com/KjdhxS1l)
keep working man :)
I love this site. The color palette is fantastic, the graphics and typography are fantastic, and the whole site is very clean. It's almost on par with big retailers like Home Depot or Lowes. Hats off to whomever built this for you. For real, please pass along my compliments to the chef.
Suggested improvements:
- All of the pages in the site have no <title> tags (!). If you look at the browser tab you'll see it just shows the URL there. This is absolutely crucial to fix.
- The site's load time is subpar. See https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lightingcounty.com%2F and https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.lightingcounty.com/gQg9SdlT/ . See what you can do to speed that up. This is second priority.
- In the top bar, it should read FREE SHIPPING ON ORDER*S* OVER $99
- I'd rethink the mailing list signup form. Who really wants more email in their inbox, with no clear benefit to signing up? You have to offer the user something in exchange for their email address. For example, offer them a 10% off discount code if they sign up, and then have your email marketing software automatically send them the email.
- Maybe look at adjusting the colors of the stadium, gas station, etc. photos so they are more in harmony with the site's palette. See discussion of color grading under the Photography section in this blog post.
Aside from those issues, I'd say the site layout is in pretty good shape, so your efforts would be best spent on things like SEO, marketing, Google Shopping integration, PPC management, optimizing back-end fulfillment processes, etc.
Yea, I'd start with moving to a better shared hosting plan, I don't really see anything on that site that warrants anything else.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/statenislandcarpetcleaning.info/dZacmi7N/
You do have an image being referenced with the URL below that is giving an error - https://gator4031.temp.domains/\~stateing/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/images.jpg
Your server response time is > 5 seconds. Something is very wrong with your hosting. My guess is you’re using a poor quality host like GoDaddy or BlueBost.
Pro tip - they're going to find SOMETHING No matter how nit picky it is, they will find something. You need to explain here is the budget we gave, here is what we have time to do in that budget. We could work indefinetly on your website if you want to pay us to.
Here's some scanners that may point you to some things to do. https://www.webaccessibility.com/
13 plugins is not a lot. I'd say that's pretty average. As far as page speed, sometimes builders have learning curves to do things in a minimalist way.
It might be worth doing a scan at gtmetrix.com to see what you can improve. Many times, slow loading is due to cheap/bad hosting.
I took on a client that had 160 plugins on their site. Now THAT is a nightmare, but we are going to rebuild the site the right way.
I ran a gtmetrix report, and got this result. As you can see on the Waterfall tab. There's a LOT of the time spent waiting (purple) or blocking (brown). So, it's basically something that has to do with either database performance, how your files are loading and/or the server capacity.
GZipping images won't actually tend to compress the image much, and it will add time where the image needs to be compressed and then decompressed. Because of that, it's actually recommended that you do not compress binary data which is already compressed (see the "PageSpeed recommends" section on the right on this page). This page notes, "Image and PDF files should not be gzipped because they are already compressed. Trying to gzip them not only wastes CPU but can potentially increase file sizes."
So, gzip isn't really a solution when it comes to speeding up image downloads.
I signed up now for your free version. In the past I have used https://gtmetrix.com and also server monitoring services. I don't really have the need for both in one product, but it can't hurt.
One way you could make extra money is when a site has a low score (mine shows a PWA of 52/100) you could be more detailed about why my site specifically got that low score so I know what to fix. Your general tips for PWA were good but I need to know specifically what was wrong. So you could charge for that, or even better give the info for free but offer a service where you fix it for me. I have hired people on Upwork.com for that in the past based on my gtmetrix.com results.
So.. it's Wix for photographers?
I couldn't imagine intentionally tying myself to a lock-in platform like that. The moment you want to add a function (ecommerce/reservations, alternative gallery formats, different post objects)... you simply can't.
Looking over their featured gallery all of the designs are pretty much the same thing, just with a different block order and different colors.
I did some searching around, and found a couple sites that use it. All of them seem pretty slow, and have a massive page load --nothing is merged or minified, and it shows.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/saffronavenue.com/Zt1UVHIo https://gtmetrix.com/reports/elizabethmccravy.com/eSrfAiGc
This may be more backend development rather than design, but the loading time of the pages is very slow. It took me 6-7 seconds every time I changed the page on a 50Mbps connection, which is far from ideal when you're trying to show off several pieces of work. If I was just browsing, I'd have given up after one or two pages. A quick speed test didn't produce great results either.
However, from a design perspective it's pretty neat. I like that it has some definite character and personality.
Those numbers add up to a measly 160-170ms page load time lol. How much faster do you want it to be?
I'd pull up your chrome, load the home page while you have the network tab open.
You can click the timeline to see how long resources take to load.
Spot the bottlenecks. Usually it is 3rd party scripts that hurt.
The other major hurt is images. If you're loading images, make sure you're compressing them. I use a tool called Caesium that's pretty good at batch compressing images for web.
Run your site through gtmetrix.com to see what else can be improved.
100 visitors a day is less than 3 per hour which is negligible traffic.
Make sure you're caching your resources too. You can use a free DNS service like cloudflare with free ssl from them too. Little things help
Man... that is not fucking normal. You need to get out of that immediately!! Fuck, I'd be interested in taking a look at things, just to see how bad it is. What does GTMetrix say if you run it on your website: https://gtmetrix.com
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/bestofworldtravel.com/geaOmKHC
This is the problem that needs to be addressed. Switching to Digital Ocean is not going to solve the issue & is simply bad advice.
It sounds like you want to archive a baseline. You may get some solid responses at r/semrush.
Use these existing templates:
- Google My Business Insights
- Domain Comparison (Compare to direct competitors)
- Organic Search Positions
- Site Audit: Full Report
As was already stated, add the site as a project, and pretty much run all of those tools/audits. I would include any combination of these:
- Site Audit
- Position Tracking
- On Page SEO Checker
- Social Media Tracker
- Backlink Audit
- Organic Traffic Insights
- Content Analyzer
Also, pull a full report from gtmetrix.com for a page load speed audit.
Maybe u/semrush can chime in with some more ideas.
Try these two tools to get more info about the issue
1) https://gtmetrix.com/ 2) http://www.bytecheck.com
And share the results.
Now, if you are using a cache plugin and CloudFlare the issue should be the hosting.
As well as querymonitor - which nattaylor - suggested, I recommend using: https://gtmetrix.com/
As well as checking the recommendations, check the waterfall and see if there's anything causing it to load slowly. Furthermore reference the waterfall with this site:
http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2010/07/09/waterfalls-101/
With both these approaches you should be able to find the cause. Also it can depend on your hosting, if it's shared then that could be a reason.
That's great. It's a 3rd party metric so who knows what it's worth, but still. 21 for an 8 months old website seems nice to me!
Seeing how you well react to feedback, let me have a shot at you as well lol
I noticed your homepage loaded reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally slow (proof). I was once in your shoes and spent a couple of hours optimizing it, and it's not that difficult to get it faster. I finally prioritized it in my 9th month of blogging, and wrote about what I did here (case study link). You might be interested to see what I did to replicate.
I really believe speed is a huge ranking factor, both directly and indirectly via bounce rate/time on page etc. So I think this could be one of your easiest wins for now.
On a different note, the site is SLOW. You'll want to fix that if you want any traffic and conversions.
Few random things because I'm bored:
Lots to be improved here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbluesona.co.uk%2F&tab=desktop and here: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/bluesona.co.uk/5oOBcEZw
Title Tags on homepage needs improvement, throw in some relevant keywords in the title instead of 'Home Page - Company Name'.
Blog has little to no content. Categories of posts are uncategorized.
Social media should probably at least have 1 post a day, facebook is a graveyard.
About us page needs more text, tell us your story.
Launch an instagram.
'Find out more' main hero CTA sends me to a damn 404. (https://bluesona.co.uk/loop/)
I'm finding your website very slow to load. I just ran it through GT Metrix and it looks like your images are the main cause. Slow websites can turn customers off in an instant so I would focus on making your image size smaller. It's an easy fix and should help a lot.
The causes can come from different places: slow queries, php errors, themes that make many includes, etc.
I advise you to install the "Query Monitor" plugin and see what alerts it shows if there are errors or slow queries it will inform you.
You have two types of delays, the server response that is caused by very large db queries or php includes/functions.
And the page loading, which is caused by large images, heavy js / css, to identifying this you can use sites like: https://tools.pingdom.com, https://gtmetrix.com, https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed
Run your site through GTmetrix. Look for performance issues especially on your product list and checkout pages. A slow website will make even the best content seem dismissable.
GTmetrix will give you suggestions on how to speed up your website for each problem making your site slow.
Raise your pricing.
Get rid of any skill or experience measured in hours. Round up to the nearest year. I'd swap "500 hours of experience" for 5 years of experience, if I were you.
Use a contrasting color for any CTAs - a gray button on a gray background with black text will get lost.
Run your site through something like GTMetrix to find ideas for speed improvements. You're getting a B from Google, and a C from YSlow - definitely some room for improvements: https://gtmetrix.com/
Remove your "Features" page. It's confusing, and unnecessary for a services company. Replace it with a link to your portfolio in the top nav.
Bring quotes from happy clients front and center. Don't make anyone click through to see what others have said about your work.
Remove "Home" from the top nav. Your logo already links there, and this is a standard design pattern.
Your footer has a ton of wasted space. I'd just remove it and simplify your design.
There's a lot of images. Your site on first load is about 10MB. It takes around 20s for me to load.
I would recommend tryng to lower resolution and size of the images.
try to improve the scores given on the site below
Here is some suggestion for your website:
- Website loading time is high.
- Put zoom button as it is an apparel based website.
- Make description part more attractive.
- Add continue shopping button (which redirected to the same page/category) after added one item to cart.
- Add more payment gateways (if possible).
- Secure your checkout page/entire website with the digital certificate.
- Showcase discounted products at home page.
- Put combo offers to attract customers.
- Make the page of your website on social platforms too.
- Also, list your business at good.
If you want to still want to see which other technical errors come on your site then test your site within GTmetrix tool.
I take Google Page Speed results with a grain of salt. It's a good starting point to identify big issues, but don't try to force a square peg into a round hole. You'll probably get a better idea of how your site is doing speed-wise from GTmetrix.
I tried the site on Safari and Chrome, on MacBook Pro.
- Site conveys quickly what it is, who is it for. Easy to "find the banana" (buy a watch, send for service) from top menu. So this is better than 90% of the sites already
- Carrusel pics look huge to me, in my screen I need to scroll down to see the footer
- The social media stuff in the footer left is barely visible
- Trus aspect: any place selling expensive stuff needs to convey they are trustworthy, this is achieve in part by posting clearly physical address, pic of people and names, an "about" and "policy" section (returns etc), I think this is accomplished
- Biggest thing I'm missing: a way to capture emails in order to create list of prospect clients, for example if visitor wants to be notified of new watches for sale coming in, maybe a non-required field can be added so people can say what they are looking for
- next thing to add if you want to capture watch enthusiast traffic is something else that makes me come back (other than I need service or wanting to buy a watch now) is some info, whatever, blogging about watches in something niche, like repair/maintenance. And yes, this is very hard to do.
- not too important but some pics are missing: http://www.artdialwatch.com/watches-for-sale/wittnauer-double-retrograde-futurama
- in the list of watches for sale, if it gets bigger (more watches) you want a way to filter / order the results, say by price or last arrival
- sorry to be that guy but "it's age" punches me in the face http://www.artdialwatch.com/watches-for-sale/crawford-vintage-chronograph
- server side technically looks pretty good https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.artdialwatch.com/BxGQo8bZ
Your actual set up seems pretty much fine, everything is loading fairly promptly.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/unbiasedflightreviews.com/oykGI1KB
Where you are doing wrong mainly is mainly that your site is huge in terms of resources.
1) Huge images. One of them is over 2mb alone. Upload images that have been resized to the correct size already.
2) You have a file that is showing a 500 error, which is slowing things down.
You have a lot of work to do on the performance-side of things. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/emojilottery.co.uk/JORr14av
I think overall it's decent. Maybe try increasing the heights of each section a bit to try to break it up a bit more. It just feels cluttered, but maybe that's just me.
Shit, dude. What is causing it? Like, everything. A plugin? More like all the plugins.
Take a look at this for starters: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/rabidhabs.com/yzhmuwJ6
And out of curiosity I wanted to compare Amazon: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/amazon.com/hnmlaM37
Also, on Chrome the console was stating between 20-30 errors on different loads.
Pretty much has nothing to do with what you're asking but there are some optimizations that can be done to your site to improve performance: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.iosresolution.com/CIFgFMHZ
Sorry for the lack of relevance. Just thought I would throw this out there :P
This is a good thing. Very nice.
As /u/yeahmynameisbrian mentioned, your portfolio looks like a downloaded template which immediately will put off prospective hiring bodies as you're "letting something else do most of the work for you". You need to decide when it's best to reinvent the wheel. In this case I would consider reinventing a good appraoch as you are attempting to showcase your skills to potential employers. I personally would tear out all those plugin's and show that you are able to produce a fast, responsive website without the use of bootstrap and all this other stuff:
<script src="assets/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/jquery.parallax-1.1.3.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/imagesloaded.pkgd.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/jquery.sticky.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/smoothscroll.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/wow.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/jquery.easypiechart.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/waypoints.min.js"></script> <script src="assets/js/jquery.cbpQTRotator.js"></script>
Edit: Also, CSS isnt a markup language ;)
First thing is your site is noticeably slow. It was a pain to try to get something in the cart and get to the checkout page. https://gtmetrix.com/ gives it a C rating, so I've seen worse but it's still a roadblock in the customer experience.
I would change your conversion goal too. At this rate it'll never leave the learning phase. You should optimize for "Add to Cart". It also might just be a targeting thing. Clickers are not the same as buyers. Try only showing it to people who actually make purchases from Facebook. It's called "engaged shopper" under "behavior".
Real good ad though.
>If you're doing eCommerce, and you're comfortable configuring servers, then Elementor is definitely not worth using - because you'll likely be using WooCommerce and stacking WooCommerce + Elementor is really heavy, because Woo as it is is a large plugin.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.lonecbd.com/egyZ68Md/
People just don't know how to optimize an elementor + woocommerce site. It's perfectly capable of being fast. My site is running elementor, woocommerce, a ton of addons for both and a myriad of other plugins. 97 plugins active right now.
It's actually pretty easy to get an elementor site this fast if you know what you're doing.
It looks like you're using some sort of user tracking plugin "https://app-worker.visitor-analytics.io/main.js" is what's killing your times. It's also loading another file called "settings" which also performs poorly and several other things.
Check the Waterfall tab here: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/cogentica.com/ImeLNAME/
I loaded your site from my PC and my iPad (it's still loading...I think), but it was really, really slow. So, I checked on gtmetrix.com and it received an F. Where are you hosting your website, if I might ask?
Hey thanks for the update, after poking around, I agree it is taking slightly longer than I'd expect it to to return a fairly simple page with a handful of products.
I threw it into a pagespeed tester to see what else it could tell me: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/isetupedia.com/Q5kreOkT/
The biggest hit is it takes upwards of a second just waiting for the server to respond, which again could point to problems with the backend.
Let me know if you spot anything you think is worth noting on that Query Monitor one
Have a look at https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/
Oh and i forgot about 2 other plugins i recently discovered:
Disable Woocommer bloat (to make woocommerce faster)
Block specific spam woo order
Here is my gtmetrix report for a e-commerce i recently optimised : https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ironandgasoline.com/qXyU85x6/
Feel free to ask anything - i consider this score really good for 90euro a year plan divided by 30 websites ;)
I agree with another poster who says Bluehost is the likely issue. If you've gone to GTmetrix.com and made all the changes you can, but are still experiencing slow speeds then hosting is the issue.
You need a hosting provider with a good TTFB (time to first byte). I recommend SiteGround but it's not as cheap as Bluehost or GoDaddy—for good reason.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.lonecbd.com/7JuhP5qW/
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lonecbd.com%2F
Gotta love the smell of /r/wordpress being wrong in the morning
Site is built with Elementor, a bunch of Elementor addons, Woocommerce, Woocommerce addons and a shitload of other plugins. The site is currently running 55 plugins that add features.
"You can't have a fast site with features" is just bullshit. You ain't trying hard enough.
Site is currently in the 80's on Pagespeed Insights mobile, almost 100/100 on desktop. I'll be in the 90's on mobile probably within a month.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/koenigdunne.com/cJcVme94/
Before any other recommendations, you need to fix the files that are 404ing in the waterfall. That alone is majorly hurting your performance, at least it seems to for gtmetrix. Your pagespeed insights mobile score is actually already in the 90's.
Went from 93/90 to 99/95
I am image-heavy script heavy and plug-in heavy so i was very supprised.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.thestrategyinformer.com/hUzhJbS8/
I think you should first find a better host that is willing to review your site and potentially provide options in terms of a proper audit, optimization assistance etc. I'd recommend having a proper audit done on your site anyway as well, to determine the resource it needs from both front end and back end. It looks to need some attention in terms of optimization as well. To note, hosting itself does play a part, but only a part.
I wouldn't bother with this. It's more important that your images are properly sized and optimized.
Run a scan on gtmetrix.com and see what it says.
My Divi sites load under 3s. The biggest issue I've encountered with slow Divi sites were
- crappy hosting
- using the visual builder in ridiculous ways
- huge images/files
As a fellow colleague who run similar business.
Make sure your website and your so-to-be clients websites pass the following tests
Security Headers https://securityheaders.com/
Speed Test https://gtmetrix.com/
Basic SEO https://www.seobility.net/en/seocheck/
Your website should score A and above all the time and checking your website seems work-in-progress and needs to pass all of the above.
That sounds like a server speed issue, not a wordpress issue. You can see how your server compares to the rest by putting your website here
We use either WPX or Siteground for our servers and it says: Congratulations. Your website hosting server is exceptionally quick.
And the response time is 9ms from the US, and 10ms from London.
WPX has been great for us, and they also have a migration team so they can move your site from where you are now to them for free.
If the front end is slow too, which i suspect it might be with your problems on the backend, then https://gtmetrix.com/ can sometimes help to narrow down where the issues are, if its a lack of caching or large images or something. But since your problem is also on the backend then i suspect its just the server thats too slow.
I would quickly test my website for the following
SEO https://www.seobility.net/en/seocheck/ see if you tick all the boxes
Security https://gf.dev/secure-headers-test check your website meets all the security headers checks
performance https://gtmetrix.com/ obviously make sure you are scoring A
Had a look at your website and your choice of colour scheme and the theme you used is simple but nice to look at and scroll through. It's consistent. Your website however did take awhile to load so optimising your website would be a good place to start off with. I am from the UK so that is one reason but if you want clients from around the world that's one thing to look at. Using the website gtmetrix: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/onlineentrepreneurstoday.com/SNPgGst9 it gives an I sight of your website, the loadspeed etc and if you register you can compare it load times in different countries.
To further improve you could add more pages explaining what you're about, what you do and what you're really about. In other words make an about us page and some services pages to sell yourself. You could put a page dedicated to your team and so on. It's a good place to start on for improvements.
Also, a lot of people use their phones and go on websites. Therefore making sure your website is responsive is something you can look at. Your logo was fairly small and you had some whitespace on the right side of the page meaning that your page wasn't stretched to fit the width of any screen. The drop down list icon was also very small on mobile as well.
Apart from these your website does the job. Adding more pages and optimising your page would be worth the time you put in improvement as some people would want to see more from your website to get in touch with you. It also helps for SEO as the extra content you put in with relevant key words would rank on the search engines
I personally have had no problems with that, I mean here’s a quick comparison for you.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/store.steampowered.com/oilGnJ5J
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.epicgames.com/SxufnYg6
While Epic gets a lower score in PageSpeed, everything else is clearly much better.
Also I find it ironic that you tell me to quit talking out of my ass, but as others pointed it out you are spreading conspiracy theories that the Chinese government somehow steals our data? Wait till you find out about discord buddy... and again the CSS doesn’t load... but you quote my statement about images? CSS is a language mostly used to add style to HTML, but can be used in various other ways. So what part of the CSS doesn’t load?
It is fine to have one company as a host and another as a register. Run some tests and see which one comes up faster on https://gtmetrix.com (you want to look for the time before your site starts loading). Sometimes the difference can be negligible, other times it may be half a second.
Although the site is loading fast, The bulk of the ms is spent waiting for server to respond. Report
You are already using autoptimize which is great. You could configure cloudflare CDN to make your site load faster.
Your website is hosted on shopify and it's one of the best out there. The website is loading pretty fast. Since you are dropshipping, There is simply too much content on the first page and it's doesn't look neat or organized. If you are not getting enough sales it probably because you are trying to sell lots of things. My recommendation would be to find a niche and focus on it. Spend sometime to edit the images so that they all look as if they belong from your site and not from elsewhere. You can check the report here
I am deleting the unnecessary plugins, but I think I need MailPoet no? As bloom tells me to select an email provider and MAilPoet is that. I was using Instagram as a widget but I don't need it. And holy shit.
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https://gtmetrix.com/reports/inverseinvesting.net/jHipmNax
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Can't believe I'm such an idiot. Thank you for helping this idiot.
Sorry, don't follow. What doesn't have to be like what anymore? The site optimization issue has already been outlined above and is the cause for the performance issues with the site.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/sitesbystephenb.com/CVvoSDDb
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsitesbystephenb.com%2F
Optimize, start by using a cache plugin.
Have you tried the Divi Tweaker?
Also, if you are using the newest Divi there is an option to minify. There is also a static option for the builder.
Redirection may be one of those that could be causing issues.
Have you checked https://gtmetrix.com/?
Try offloading requests with CDN, i am not sure if you can add subdomain to CloudFlare, but try that.
You are missing favicon and page is timed out after some/long time https://opaaa.ddns.net/favicon.ico
Also check this https://gtmetrix.com/reports/opaaa.ddns.net/H6rUJv76
- Enable Gzip compression on nginx
- Minify CSS and JS.
From Yslow score:
This page has 23 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one.
This page has 8 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one.
You website/page is not optimized at all.
I would go with CloudFlare and enable CDN/caching, optimizations(rocket loader,etc..).. Fiddle with options and test your page on gtmetrix.com
I like the site design and the idea of also offering photoshop filters and mockups etc. That's a good one as I've not seen that on some other royalty free stock sites. Here's some feedback for you...
I'd suggest adding a sticky search bar at the top so when you scroll down you can still search for content rather than needing to scroll all the way up or using the back to top button.
The website seems to load quite slow for me, I decided to take a look at why and had guessed it was most likely due to the images. After running the website using GT Metrix, https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.motosha.com/tL18W5y5 your site scored a load time of 9.4 seconds, which is much slower than the average (6.7) this is one of the biggest factors that will turn away your traffic.
I'd suggest optimising the images before uploading, or if you're using WordPress, install the Bulk WP Smush plugin - it works great!
Other than that, it's great, but of course, adding a free email sign-up would be another option for list gen and you could give away some exclusive content, or email the list new trending stock images etc...
Also, Lightroom presets is another option you could go down?
Anyhow, great work so far! I've bookmarked the site and will consider using the images for content creation purposes.
Nice! Great start!
Two comments:
1) You're probably already working on this, but as you know state preservation is a little bit of an issue as you're losing the functionality of the back button to return to the homepage from posts. History.js might help.
2) I ran it through GTmetrix.com .. Nice and speedy already! Only possible way to squeeze a little more speed out would be to add better browser caching on htaccess... and expires headers. Not that you really need to though. You're already looking at a .6 second pageload. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/tomando.me/ktoOBEp3
Load Time: 21.1 seconds Page Size: 16.1 mb Requests: 236
I think there is room for a new open source CMS marketed primarily to agencies that doesn't have all of the limitations and low performance of WordPress.
I always run the theme's demo page through GTMetrix before purchasing. Most theme demos have a giant home page so they can show all their features. If it performs well with all that stuff on it (and the extra plugins it ships with like another commenter mentioned) you know you're starting at a good point with a well-designed theme.
Heya Yew. What version of PHP are you running the Wordpress installation on? If you're not on PHP 7, consider upgrading—it's significantly faster (up to 2x, depending on what's going on under the hood). It should also be less hassle if you take care of that now, rather than after traffic hits the site.
Other than that, I'd caution against too many plugins if you can at all help it, because they tend to bloat Wordpress (in terms of efficiency, complexity, and security risks—and exponentially so if the site is meant to stay up for a long time). I have front-end dev experience, and would probably opt to modify the theme to serve compressed assets instead of using a plugin—the plugin is more likely to break something unexpectedly, and hand-tuning will let you trim the fat more intelligently. That's of course dependent on how comfortable you feel messing around with HTML/CSS/JS/etc., and what your plans for the site design are. Feel free to hit me up if you'd like any advice, though.
And this is a pretty basic suggestion, which I only include in case you've forgotten it, but make sure to run the site through PageSpeed and Yslow to help pick off any of the low-hanging fruit like missing cache headers, badly placed CSS/JS, and gzip compression. GTmetrix will run your site through both of those at once.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
Read up on front end optimization. Read up on image optimization as well. Most slow small to medium websites I see are due to poor front end and image optimization.
Purpose: Fitness website, main goal is to drive newsletter signups
Technologies Used: Wordpress hosted by WP Engine
Feedback Requested: Loading speed and SEO
Comments: I'm currently working to speed up loading time on this site. Implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages today, and I've already started using Yoast SEO, Autoptimize, and WP Smush.
According to my GTMetrix waterfall report, most of the website loads in 2 seconds, but then Google Fonts and Google Analytics add several more seconds. How do I make the Google Fonts load internally so the site isn't being slowed down by the need to fetch them? And what, if anything, do I need to do about that Google Analytics javascript code that's being loaded towards the end?
WP Fastest Cache plugin will help (or completely solve the problem).
Follow instructions from step 4 here.
Seconded. This combo is the best I've used so far (and I've used W3 Cache and Super Cache).
I basically follow this advice plus Autoptimize.
My site, in case that's somehow helpful for context.
I think the overall design is fantastic and you have good work so I'm only going to address what I think can make it better.
The shooting stars in the background. This is some nifty js, but it needs to stop after I've scrolled past your first 2 sections. Then it becomes an annoyance.
The moving tilted portfolio pieces. This is you trying to be too clever. This is all fancy with very little functionality. You simply have too much going on in this section. I think you should keep it in a flat rectangle and perhaps have it scroll up an down or focus in on one aspect.
Your page loading time can be improved. Also your web metrics need some work. Go to https://gtmetrix.com and download the full report (it's free) on how to optimize your website.
Take the emojis out. You use a very elegant & professional header font, then use meaningless "cute" emojis. Your website will be better without them.
Overall great work. Good luck!
You dont need a guide on optimizing it, you need a guide on finding the problem. peel it like an onion and see what you find. Don't make assumptions on what the problem can be.
Start with testing loading a blank page using a default theme. If its still slow you have a host issue if not start digging into what is different between the blank page and the rest of your site, Logic and process of elimination should get you were you need to go in most cases. Fixing it / optimizing it only comes after that.
You may think I'm joking and that a blank uncached page is a meaningless test, but its just a starting point. https://gtmetrix.com/ provides a nice look from the frontend when it comes to problems but wont tel you much at the backend.
caching plugins can help some things but if you have verified its the host no plugin fixes that.