Before asking to review your site, make sure it opens. I'm waiting for a full minute now for it to open..
No homepage title, duplicate description, no proper sitemap, insicate host in robots.txt. Start with fixing all mentioned above. And use faster hosting to reduce loading time.
same with me - it took 25 sec to load. Man, you need to optimize it. And one more thing -- I don't understand the category logic -- top titles like General, Politics, Professionals, business and Economics -- what made you pull those for out considering the sites issue range is so broad?
Sure need to optimize speed, have done a bit but thinking what should be optimized next People can have interest in different topics. Not necessary everyone who want to discuss or write something should start a blog, they can use tikshare.
One more thing, I've noticed -- why do you have a Google custom search and a SEARCH button below it? what's the logic of two searches on a site. I'd delete one of them to use the place for ads or any other elements.
I'd also consider putting a copyright or design notice with some usefull link into a footer One more thing: You have Facebook, but how about other Social Networks ?
That one i just copied and paste the code, button is automatically generated. Currently dont have any ad to put. Will for sure do as you advised. Others not as active in India as facebook. But have the sharethis widget below discussions and articles. Any solid tip for optimizing speed???
None without seeing the codes. Everything depends on your platform, plugins, server type and speed and many more variables. You can make some primitive site on the same server and check how it's gonna work.
The site is built using Java. Is java slower compared to other languages. No plugins. Does Javascripts slow the site? :O
As everyone said... Your website is toooo slow... You can try adding your site to cloud server ...it may help you
How cloud will help. Server is Server whether VPS or cloud!!! Cloud is costly and without any revenue to site, its not possible
Cloudflare is not a good option. What if the ip they give me is blacklisted or something. Any cheaper cloud server which i can use for minimum. Currently i am paying $45 for one month for a VPS.
How can cloudflare help? It's just a waste of money. Check out your site's engine. Perhaps it needs update. Ask other guys using it if they have speed problem like you do at your engine's forum. and check out with your hosting provider.
Its too costly, you can get your plan in more cheaper way at Softsys Hosting . Also make your website SEO Friendly. highly recommended. Loading time needs to be reduced and Title and Meta tags are must, else its tough to get Organic Traffic on website.