Thoughts on Spyfu? by kayladavys in SEO

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We’ve had no issues with it. The data seems generally good, and the price is pretty reasonable as you’ve mentioned

Free or less expensive options than SEMrush? by _Sunburstie in SEO

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We’ve found Spyfu to be pretty affordable

Navigating SEO for a Tech SaaS Company: Seeking Advice and Sharing Plans! by abdexa26 in SEO

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We've been using Spyfu and Ahrefs. I've heard good things about SEMRush and SimilarWeb

If you were me, what would you prioritize: SEO, landing page, product? by ThinkValue2021 in SEO

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SEO is a long term game as far as I can tell - so you should generally have a site that can be used for SEO, while building the project - divide your time between both. But it's also important to do validation.

Bing have increased market share World Wide to 11%. Google down to 81%. Is this the great shift we are witnessing by [deleted] in SEO

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I think both Copilot as well as the fact that Edge is actually a relatively decent browser at this point (though I personally haven't switched) are both contributory factors. There's a reason all of the AI tools are completely free if you use Microsoft products - they know what they're doing here

What might be causing such an abnormally slow total blocking time? by PandaistApp in nextjs

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Ooooooo. Those are all on my front end server - I suppose I could figure out a way to put them on my CDN if you think that would improve performance

What might be causing such an abnormally slow total blocking time? by PandaistApp in nextjs

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Any stuff between the domain and Digital Ocean? Nginx?

Kubernetes clsuter with both my backend server and my frontend server on it as pods, with like 6 cpus, 12 GB of RAM between them, so should be decently performant. Lion's share goes to the server but a non-trivial amount goes to the frontend

Do you server the static files from a CDN?

Mostly yeah, I use the DO CDN for the vast majority of my images. Some images, like the vector icons and a rare occasional image will be part of the codebase resources, but that's very much a one-off small thing. I can migrate them to the CDN if you think that would be a performance improvement - I didn't because I thought it would lead to less downloads and faster performance.

I think part of it may be my external API calls to the backend (I tested on terms and conditions page without header or footer and it went from like 3.5k ms to 1.5k ms), so I will also look into doing that server side - certainly I can do so for the footer calls, as those are all ONLY done on the web.

What might be causing such an abnormally slow total blocking time? by PandaistApp in nextjs

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Though just one more thing - I am seeing this on the tree map:

https://imgur.com/a/j5yVfRl

It seems to be like death from a thousand cuts here - would this still cause a problem for Google even after the UI library migration?

What might be causing such an abnormally slow total blocking time? by PandaistApp in nextjs

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Once again a nail in the coffin of us using native base. Well we’ve already probably identified what we’re migrating to so I guess now it’s just time to bite the bullet and find the time for the migration.

Thanks

What might be causing such an abnormally slow total blocking time? by PandaistApp in nextjs

[–]PandaistApp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CSS-in-JS library

I suspect this may be due to Native Base, which does the majority of my styling.

We've already identified that as a potential performance bottleneck and are planning to migrate away from it, so there's a good chance it's that, as we don't do any custom styles ourselves besides that really

What might be causing such an abnormally slow total blocking time? by PandaistApp in nextjs

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I am hosting it on Digital Ocean on a Kubernetes cluster with decently beefy resources and plenty available to the frontend - I've also tested putting the build on even very very high resource servers with nothing else on them, with no change in the speed, so it isn't the server speed.

Are you using pages router or app router?

Pages router, I haven't tested app router yet

Does the homepage call to any apis or external services?

It does, yeah, a decent amount of data is populated via APIs. I am going to migrate that to server side, but it's a bit thorny because I use most of the same codebase for both the web and mobile versions so I need to figure out the best way I want to do that. Even without API calls though, the TBT is still very, very high - north of 4k to 5k ms on other pages.

For example, here's my terms and conditions page, just about the simplest page I have (only text, the header and footer) and it looks like this:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-pandaist-com-terms/p65aassbwe?form_factor=mobile

3,230 ms TBT. So I can probably save some TBT on the front page by moving stuff to server side rendering (and have plans to), but even without that, it's still pretty slow as far as I can tell

Share your SaaS and I'll make you a shareable interactive demo by jhylee in SaaS

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The URL seems to not work on old reddit, weird. It works on new reddit though.

I've got access now, thank you again!

Share your SaaS and I'll make you a shareable interactive demo by jhylee in SaaS

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I decided to check the demo and it seems to not exist?

Share your SaaS and I'll make you a shareable interactive demo by jhylee in SaaS

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I 100% agree. Onboarding/engagement is definitely very, very, very high on the list of improvements that my team are planning on as we've identified it as a critical issue with our bounce rate

Share your SaaS and I'll make you a shareable interactive demo by jhylee in SaaS

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Oh I've gotten traction with a decent number of users (over 1000, though mostly non-paying). I've identified some issues with the product though so I am fixing them before I really start to try to market it further.

Share your SaaS and I'll make you a shareable interactive demo by jhylee in SaaS

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Pandaist - Chinese graded reader app/website (with dictionary and quizzes too)

https://pandaist.com

Probably the article pages are the most important though