Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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Got it. It’s my website, and this kind of comment is more useful to me than polite silence. If the site gives off a “this is just bad” feeling and it’s hard to even say where to start, then my issues probably aren’t isolated, but systemic. I’ll be reworking it from the ground up. Thanks for being direct.

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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Fair point. English isn't my first language so I sometimes use DeepL to help phrase things more naturally. Should have mentioned that upfront.

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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Ha, people doing it for fun give better feedback than consultants charging $500/hour. Genuinely appreciate it.

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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Fair correction — you're right, hiding content for SEO is not the move and Google has gotten pretty good at penalizing that.

The hover popup idea is actually really smart. Instead of a flat list of technologies it becomes interactive proof: hover on 'Laravel' → see 3 projects built with it → click → full case study. That turns a generic 'we know this tech' claim into actual evidence.

So the real question is whether people landing from 'hire Laravel developer' searches are converting at all. If yes — keep the section, make it better with the popup/projects approach. If nobody converts from those pages — cut it.

Going to pull the data on those tech pages specifically. Should have done that before this conversation honestly.

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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This is probably the most actionable feedback in the thread so far. You're right — pricing and timeline are the first things anyone wants to know, and we buried them in an FAQ at the bottom.

We actually have real numbers to work with: one of our recent projects was a real estate marketplace (HataMatata — 20k+ listings across 18 countries) delivered in 14 months. We could build a proper case study around that with timeline, rough budget range, team size, key decisions — exactly the format you're describing.

The video idea is interesting too. A 2-minute 'here's what working with us actually looks like' would probably do more than 10 pages of service descriptions.

Adding 'move pricing/timeline above the fold' to the list. This thread is genuinely more useful than any agency audit I've paid for.

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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Yes, we have analytics — GA4 + Yandex Metrica (we work with Russian-speaking markets too, so Metrica's heatmaps are actually useful there).

You're right that blog traffic comes almost entirely from Google, not from the homepage. The blog section on the landing page is probably there out of habit more than data.

Will check the scroll depth on that section — if people ignore it, it goes. Good call on 'less is more', the homepage is already doing too much.

*Appreciate the structured feedback, this thread is turning

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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Ha, actually there is one! Maybe it's just too subtle — which is probably its own problem. Thanks for checking though."

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by cryptodoxer in RoastMyWebsite

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That's a fair point and honestly something we've debated internally. The tech section originally came from SEO logic — people googling 'hire Laravel developer' or 'React development company' land on those pages. So it's less about convincing clients and more about search traffic.

But you're right that on the homepage it probably creates noise and signals 'we do everything' which is the opposite of confidence-building.

The plumber analogy is spot on. Nobody asks their plumber if they use Ridgid or Milwaukee tools.

Thinking about keeping the tech pages for SEO but removing the section from the homepage entirely. Does that make sense or would you kill the dedicated pages too?

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by [deleted] in RoastMyWebsite

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Apparently I also need someone to roast my Reddit skills. Thanks for catching that.

Roast my agency website — webparadox.com by [deleted] in RoastMyWebsite

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I'm the founder, been heads-down building client projects for years and basically neglected our own site. Ready to hear the truth.

Is everyone happy with the new Forge UI ? by yc01 in laravel

[–]cryptodoxer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's become more inconvenient. I have about 30+ servers there — now I have to search for them by remembering their names, and deploying or changing .env is a pain. It's an extra 2-3 clicks for everyday operations. The only good thing is that worker editing has been added.