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undersized icons are hard to tap the "right one" for the social media links on mobile, the use of PX metric fonts tells large swaths of users to go f*** themselves (they're called EM, use 'em!), and the giant blank/empty right column isn't doing any favors to the layout / usability.

Non-visual navigation -- particularly landings -- are utterly banjaxed.. I'm not even going to go into the fat bloated train wreck of code under the hood, blowing 45k of markup loaded with bad practices like inlined scripting and a lack of separating presentation from content, all to deliver 1.25k of plaintext and a whole whopping four content media... not even 8k of HTML's flipping job!

You figure in the batshit insane 295k of CSS (few if any legitimate sites or applications need more than 48k of the stuff) and absurdly inept 1.03 megabytes of JavaScript on pages that barely even warrant JavaScript's presence?

/FAIL/ at basic web development.

 

gez, I just read the first post on your home page. Fail.
You obviously have no clue how moz calculate DA .... suggest you go over to MOZ and read how they calculate it.

(HINT: DA has NOTHING to do with
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• The quality of the content on your website
• Social signals (How often your content is shared across social media platforms)
• Overall SEO performance of your website"

 

Can you please tell me where you found these values so I can look into them?

The website passes the pagespeed insights test and the website itself is lightening fast.

All those factors contribute.

 

Bullshit. Horse manure. MOZ do not use most of those things you listed in the DA calculations. You are just making it up. If you do not believe me, then go and ask MOZ.

 

Which one is it? Kindly make up your mind if you please.

 

Just because a page is fast for you, or fast for google, doesn't make it fast for everyone. It's a bit of a "Well lah-dee-huffing-dah for you!" scenario.

And really "insights" is a shell of its former self. It's no longer the go-to, it's a marketing scam to try and upsell you a CDN. That's why a lot of their advice -- like shitting "above the fold" CSS into your markup is mind-numbingly idiotic grade A farm fresh BULLSHIT!

Like right now for me it takes around 9 seconds for the page to load. Right now it's generally accepted anything over 3 seconds is long enough for users to start bouncing before it even finishes. A LOT of that seems to be the initial request time, meaning the server is either connection throttled (which seems unlikely given the load times of other elements)

A far more useful tool is the networking waterfall in a browser's document inspector. The one in firefox is slightly superior in that it gives you a better estimate of actual file sizes and the gzipped / transfer size. Actual file size is a good indicator of code quality, particularly for the HTML. Transfer size is important, but if the delta between the transfer size and file size is too high you might be spending as much or more time compressing it on the server and decompressing it locally than you'd save just by using a higher quality HTML.

Here's your site from FF. Sorry about the quality, it's been scaled down 50% from 4k.



To pull up the same type of listing, open the page in Firefox, press F12 or right click and choose "inspect", then switch to the "network" tab part of the area it opens up. Make sure "disable cache" is selected so you get what a first time visitor to your site would get, then hit F5 to reload the page. Boom, waterfall of your load time.

The most important numbers are bottom left. The number of separate files, the actual data size, and the transfer size totals. Top right you'll see a filter section saying "ALL, HTML, CSS, JS" and so forth. You can toggle these to show just those file types.

About the only information you don't get there is the size of the actual page content text and/or the distinction between content media (images/video/audio that are actually content) and presentational images (images that are part of the template, not the content). Those you have to count manually, though for plaintext the easiest way to find out is to just ^A^C (select all, copy), go into a text editor and ^V (paste). The editor will tell you how big the text is.

Thus using those tools and that knowledge, we can see that the homepage of that first site is using for code -- HTML, CSS, and JS combined -- 1.4 megabytes (434k gzipped) in 18 files to deliver 1.28k of plaintext (as copied to my editor) and four content media.

The HTML alone is 44k. I don't see anything to warrant the PRESENCE of more than 10k of JS when you've got a megabyte of the crap in 10 separate files ... and no website needs more than 48k of CSS per media target, and given the relative simplicity of your turdpress template, I'd doubt you'd need more than half that.

Thus why you've got the typical developer ineptitude common to turdpress such as:

<header id="main-head" class="main-head head-nav-below has-search-modal simple simple-boxed no-separator" style="min-height: 106px;"><div class="inner inner-head" data-sticky-bar="1"><div class="wrap cf wrap-head"><div class="left-contain">
<span class="mobile-nav"><i class="fa fa-bars"></i></span><div class="title">
<a href="https://www.adminintel.com/" title="AdminIntel" rel="home">
<img class="mobile-logo" src="https://www.adminintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/adminintel-logo-2x.png.webp" alt="AdminIntel" width="202" height="40">
<img src="https://www.adminintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/adminintel-logo.png.webp" class="logo-image" alt="AdminIntel" srcset="https://www.adminintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/adminintel-logo.png.webp ,https://www.adminintel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/adminintel-logo-2x.png.webp 2x" width="202" height="40">
</a></div></div><div class="navigation-wrap inline"><nav class="navigation inline simple light" data-sticky-bar="1"><div class="menu-navigaton-container"><ul id="menu-navigaton" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-40" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom current-menu-item current_page_item menu-item-home menu-item-40"><a href="https://www.adminintel.com" aria-current="page"><span>Home</span></a></li><li id="menu-item-42" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-42"><a href="https://forums.adminintel.com"><span>Forums</span></a></li></ul></div></nav></div><div class="actions"><ul class="social-icons cf"><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/adminintelcom" class="fa fa-facebook" target="_blank"><span class="visuallyhidden">Facebook</span></a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/a_dminintel" class="fa fa-twitter" target="_blank"><span class="visuallyhidden">Twitter</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.adminintel.com/feed/" class="fa fa-rss" target="_blank"><span class="visuallyhidden">RSS</span></a></li></ul>
<a href="#" title="Search" class="search-link"><i class="fa fa-search"></i></a></div></div></div></header>

Code (markup):

Doing what any competent developer would have written as:

<header>
	<h1><a href="/">AdminIntel</a></h1>
	<nav>
		<ul id="mainMenu">
			<li><strong><a href="/">Home</a></li>
			<li><a href="https://forums.adminintel.com">Forums</a></li>
		</ul>
		<ul id="socialAndSearchMenu">
			<li>
				<a href="https://www.facebook.com/adminintelcom">
					<i class="fa fa-facebook"></i>
					<span>Facebook</span>
				</a>
			</li><li>
				<a href="https://twitter.com/a_dminintel">
					<i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>
					<span>Twitter</span>
				</a>
			</li><li>
				<a href="https://www.adminintel.com/feed/">
					<i class="fa fa-rss"></i>
					<span>RSS</span>
				</a>
			</li><li>
				<a href="#search" class="search">
					<i class="fa fa-search"></i>
					<span>Search</span>
				</a>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</nav>
</header>

Code (markup):

Basically 2k of minified gibberish markup doing 789 bytes of unminified code's flipping job! You minify "doing it right" it's under a third the size. Multiply that across your page?

And again that's before we talk the megabytes of JS for nothing, static scripting in the markup, static style in the markup, bloated stylesheet, etc. etm.

The code is bloated inept hard to maintain rubbish. That's not entirely on you, that's on what people always get when they use off the shelf halfwitted scam artist BS like turdpress.

 

^^^That makes it official. (I'm glad we got that sorted out)

 

USDA inspected and approved.

 

Ok, so you're telling me that the theme I am using is just badly coded? Or could it be that the litespeed cache I am using and it's setting has caused these code shifts and instead of making my website fast, it actually made it slower?

 

I’ve built a new simple theme. Can you tell me if you find this a lot faster at loading?

 

To be fair, probably to avoid echo chamber.

It's often of a waste to spend time on asking people you're already reaching. In a "you already won that fight" kind of way.

"Why are people leaving" and "why aren't we growing our user base" are rarely problems solved by listening to the people who are already there and active.