How do I make this website better and SEO optimized?

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I made this blog site and I am new to publishing something in the web for the public. How do I improve it and make it SEO optimized. Click Here for the link.

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ImTheDeveloper • Apr 12 '22

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A large proportion of your fixes can be made by sorting out your image sizes and rendering.
You need some compression, especially when sending 1.5mb+ images over mobile connections. You can also look at some newer formats to send over the wire
wpmudev.com/blog/serve-images-next...

Above and beyond that you have some layout shift which can be easily fixed.
corewebvitals.io/pagespeed/fix-cum...

Making these small changes will have a big impact. Then start to work out if there are too many requests or not.

ImTheDeveloper • Apr 12 '22 • Edited

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Where / How are you hosting this wordpress site? Some of the metrics I'm seeing almost suggest the hosting is just under performing, but can't validate until those images are put on a diet.

Although there is a lot of CSS In there (which is a blocking resource) and fonts being called upon, they are at least all calling in parallel so the total blocking time is relatively low.

Ben Halpern • Apr 12 '22

As others have mentioned, page weight and page speed is the biggest issue here. The site seems otherwise well designed for basic SEO success.

Without knowing what the solution is exactly, the problem are areas like this:

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The images on the posts are also much too big. I'd probably start there just because it might be more straightforward than dealing with all of these assets.

For automatic image optimization, you might want to look at something like Cloudinary for Wordpress. That's just a quick suggestion, your approach might need to be different.

Hope this helps!! Page speed is about UX as much as SEO (that's why Google cares about it in the first place), so best wishes figuring this all out!

Brendan Cowley • Apr 12 '22

Well... what you're asking for is a bit more than just a "hey I need this small thing on a blog post" question. Knowing that it's a wordpress website making a butt load of http requests, and is loading in a butt load of assets... I'd say start there. If I were you I'd also take a look at how many plugins you're using if it's necessary. Lighthouse gives "good" scores, but the user experience doesn't match.

On SEO, you're going to need to be more specific. SEO now means the same thing as dev-ops.