Old site, new site

[byebyebaby]

Lot of great help, thanks.

So delete the SEO plugin and start using ALL IN ONE SEO? Or should I use the metatag tool that comes with my theme maybe?
I think I might rewrite them all.

No Keyword tags.

Install a fast cache tool.

And fix H1 and javascript things? Don't know how yet, but ok LOL

THAT THE WAY TO GO MAYBE?

 

[AussieDave]

So delete the SEO plugin and start using ALL IN ONE SEO? Or should I use the metatag tool that comes with my theme maybe?

Well that explains why this is, as it is now:

<!-- SEO Ultimate (http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/) -->
<meta name="description" content="The latest news from online casinos, new online slot games and casino bonuses" />
<meta name="keywords" content="online slots,slot games,video slots,casinos,reviews,casino software,bonuses" />

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<meta name="description" content="The latest news from online casinos, new online slot games and casino bonuses" />
<meta name="keywords" content=",halloween,leovegas,stacked wilds,play'n go,expanding wilds,random wilds,realtime gaming,collapsing reels,stacked symbols,stargames,novomatic,go wild casino,microgaming,243 ways,betsafe,re-spin feature,nextgen gaming,netent,netbet,progressive jackpot,sticky wilds,playtech,uptown aces,mega symbols,wild reels,extra wild,vera &amp; john,yggdrasil gaming,unibet,platin casino,merkur" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.heaven4casinos.com/" />

Without actually seeing the nuts, bolts (php code) and backend of your theme, my gut-feeling is to kick SEO Ultimate. Then only use your theme's inbuilt metatag seo tool. As it stands now, using both is causing the above issue.

I'm going to send you a PM

 

[byebyebaby]

Bet4You has helped me tremendously. Thanks for all your help!

 

[Kadabra]

Even not just you... Great posts!

 

[slotplayer]

I'd also consider moving to a new hosting provider. I use Godaddy as a domain registrar only. I wouldn't recommend hosting there though.

Every time I'm visited your site, it hangs for a good 3 - 4 sec before it starts to render the site in the browser. Really, your site needs to at least be showing something other than a blank page within this time frame, otherwise, you risk punters hitting the back button.

I ran a test from London using Chrome (picked that country as it's a good 1/2 way point, between EU and USA) and the results are not great:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151113_P0_NK6/

3825 ms First Byte Time, is way too slow, like snail pace. This needs to be around 500ms or less.

Your images compression is off the chart and if compressed could say you 402K in load time.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151113_P0_NK6/1/performance_optimization/#compress_images

I'd also guess that you've got a bottle neck with your javascripting in the header. I'd also looking at stripping the version numbers of these scripts, that saves load times too

Albeit some of this is needed to load 1'st up but other bits of it, could be deferred to loading after, by moving it to just above the closing </html> tag. But you need to include the defer instruction within the javascript code tag, otherwise just moving doesn't always optimise the end result.

I'd also look at installing a cache. I used https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/ and highly recommend it.

While I have the paid version, the free does exactly what you need, speed up your site load times. Unlike some of the other WP cache plugins, WPFC is child's play to setup. And in the free version it offers basic CSS, JS and Html minify options.

Last but not least. Plugins... I run 10 max. And if I could use less I would. Not sure how many you have but a lean site, is a fast site

There's a few basic things I'd suggest looking at before ditching Heaven4Casinos.com

you can also defer scripts or use the async attribute if html5.

Scripts without async or defer attributes, as well as inline scripts, are fetched and executed immediately, before the browser continues to parse the page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/script

 

[byebyebaby]

Even not just you... Great posts!

No he helped set a lot of things up for me. Not just the helpful posts he had here...

you can also defer scripts or use the async attribute if html5.

Scripts without async or defer attributes, as well as inline scripts, are fetched and executed immediately, before the browser continues to parse the page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/script

I think the website is a lot faster now after Bet4You was done with it

 

[AussieDave]

I think the website is a lot faster now after Bet4You was done with it

Got the First time to byte way down, fixed up the dup SEO stuff, added a cache and worked some other WP magic too.

The site now fully loads in about 1.30 sec
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dAOdKF/http://www.heaven4casinos.com/

As compared to before when it was taking 8.1 sec.
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151113_P0_NK6/

(ran the lastest speed test on pingdom because the other test site, is mostly always chocker with multiple tests cued)

Could decrease the FTTB & tweak some more settings in htaccess but the WP site is on Godaddy and that limits what I can do.

Edit:

Oh and I cleaned and optimised the DB. It was over 50Meg, got that down to 20.3Meg

 

[slotplayer]

No he helped set a lot of things up for me. Not just the helpful posts he had here...



I think the website is a lot faster now after Bet4You was done with it

I know. I was just putting it out there as general information for everybody.
Using defer or async or by writing the external scripts dynamically is how I get around Google complaining that there is render-blocking scripts using Google page speed.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Your heaven4casinos complains about server response time, which is a complaint I've not seen before on page speed. Your netent site doesn't complain about server response time.

 

[AussieDave]

Your heaven4casinos complains about server response time, which is a complaint I've not seen before on page speed.

Your netent site doesn't complain about server response time.

I just ran the test with heaven4netent.com and it's giving the complaint about "server response time" too!

Google's page test is, well f#cked up...

That's why I stopped using the G tool ages ago because it's NOT trustworthy. It issues false positives.

Instead use http://tool.pingdom.com or http://www.webpagetest.org BOTH of these return correct results. They don't give false positives like G does.

The results for Heaven4Netent (Pingdom) 89/100 for test
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/b5IqKv/http://www.heaven4netent.com

(Webpagetest) - heaven4Netent
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151120_JW_10VY/

Bet4You - Optimised WP site
Results for Heaven4Casinos (Pingdom) - 92/100 for test
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cEjy3x/http://www.heaven4casinos.com/

(Webpagetest) - Heaven4Casinos
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151120_F3_115C/

Reiterating, the Google tool gives false positives. I stopped using it as a trusted tool, because it was always marking issues needing attention, which I'd fixed myself (in my own sites). Which BTW had been passed as fixed at both Pingdom & Webspeedtest.

 

[AussieDave]

As a comparision and point of reference, here are the results for DOCH (WP).

TTFB and Keep Alive, both return issues. The site is hosted for free by Dave's (webcaz's) dedi server in the UK. These 2 issues are not impacting load times. Site loads in 1.2sec. If it was my server, I'd fix these issues but I'm not about to hassle Dave to do it, given the generous free hosting.

(load time 1.2sec)
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/151120_A5_124C/

(load time 0.646ms) - 97/100 score
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/eNw4VT/http://www.dodgyonlinecasinohistory.net

93/100 score - but with multiple false positives
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http://www.dodgyonlinecasinohistory.net&tab=desktop

 

[slotplayer]

I've seen different results (over time) with the page speed, leading to me to the same conclusion that the test is flaky, however I've not ruled out that its just improvements with the test.

TBH, I don't have faith in most of these testing sites. Even my slot site scores 93 on Pindom with Godaddy economy shared hosting, from all Pingdom locations and it has a ton of problems.

I re-did my drop ship site and it scores 90 on mobile, 96 on desktop and 100% user experience but on Pindom it scores only 80 but says its faster than 96-98% of the sites.

 

[AussieDave]

I agree these tools are not perfect science. It's akin to those GPU tests with 3DMark. I've given up using it. Tested top end cards, test claims max XX possible frame rates BUT in actual real world game play, I'm running full-eye-candy and getting twice the frame rates.

In the end I think these tools can give some feedback BUT if your site loads visibly quick, then that's what really counts

 

[slotplayer]

nothing like a real world test.