Website Performance

Not really an Elements specific question but pretty obvious that nobody will be able to help on the other forums I go on.

I put my Elements site through a test on one of the sites recommended in the manual and got this result -

100% Health Score and zero errors sounds good. Not sure how much effort I should put in to resolving some of the others? Google Analytics did throw up the canonical issue a while so would be good to resolve that.

Question - Would you bother trying to fix the above or is it good enough?

I’d be curious to know which tool you used for this site analysis?

Need a URL so we can specifically look at what is going on — if you are willing. :slight_smile:

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Was linked in the manual under the SEO page so thought I would give it a whirl.

Just this old one I have been playing around with. Not published the latest version yet which has updated alt refs on the main images and logo. I note that the images in the Gallery are being flagged as not having an alt ref but not yet had a look to see how you do that.

Oh yes, have never taken notice of H tags so unsurprised that they have been flagged.

Had a quick look and a lot of these things you can fix yourself in Elements. We have an SEO page in the manual that talks about fixing some the basics, check it out!

Let us know if you need specific help on implementing the changes!

How do you set Alt Text on images in a Gallery?

Just add a “Caption” in the Resource Info Panel, that will apply is as an alt tag in the code :slight_smile:

That looks like Ahrefs. I’ve found their health score and errors to be the most useful of their reporting. “Slow page” generally has turned out to be the way they crawl the site more than a page issue, in my experience. They often report slow pages that I know to be fast loading, then next time around report different pages as slow. Missing Alt Text and Multiple H1 tags can impact SEO, but quite frankly, the search engines are dumb. You can put the file name into the Alt Text and they mark that as fine.

Cool. Have republished with alt refs all over the shop and they have disappeared as an issue. Compressing images further and sorting out H tags should be easy although it comes down to effort vs benefit really.

To be honest SEO isn’t all that important in the crowded accommodation industry IMO because 90 percent of bookings come through 3rd party apps. The website gets ‘discovered’ after finding the place on those third party apps then people book on the app, or if they are clever book through the website and get it cheaper.

Thanks all.

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