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New website. Seo problem..

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İnspector84

New Member
Hello everyone. I opened a website. I am sharing files for the UK education system. More precisely, I added thousands of files in gcse, a level etc fields and in each category. But my visitors are very few. Can you review my website and give me an idea? What can I do?
gcsetime.com
 
hijcarli

hijcarli

New Member
First thing's first, it's loading really slow. There are a lot of elements on the technical side of SEO that needs to be fixed. Have you had a technical audit?
 
awais_ahmed

awais_ahmed

New Member
In my opinion, you have to improve your content and make it good quality content that your target audience wanted to explore. After that, you have to implement proper SEO strategies to get maximum traffic on your site. These strategies include on-page, technical, and off-page. It is important to implement all these strategies in an effective way to get desired results.
 
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Rupert the Bear

New Member
Hi inspector84,

Just had a look at your site and it’s averagely fast. (GTMetrix 91% and pagespeed insights 73).
What is slowing down your site are the usual main suspects.
Rendering
Cache
CDN
Or rather, lack of.

Rendering.
Quite easy to fix.
Don’t use https to link to your style sheets, link them internally, like so:
<link rel="prerender stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">
(Note the word ‘prerender’ before the stylesheet).
But don’t do it to your main css file.

Also ‘defer’ your scripts and place them at the bottom of your body, just before </body> like so:
<script src="js/jquery.min.js" defer></script>
(Note the word ‘defer’).

Cache.
Put a cache in your htaccess file, like so:
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"

You’ll find examples on the Internet.

CDN.
Not obligatory, but helps. I don’t know if they cost anything as I get cloudflare as a freebie from my host provider. Helps speed if you have an international audience.

Miscellaneous
Take that horrible PDF advert off the top of your page if you can, it’s visibly slowing down your loading time and adverts shouldn’t be loading before your content. Leave it on the right side of your page where it already is, if you must.

Had a look at your HTML and I suspect it’s wordpress you’re using. It’s taking a massive 521ms to load and that’s because WP comes with a whole lot of third-party rubbish included!

Hope all that helps.
 
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