Google page speed testing failures
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When running our domain through google's page speed insights I'm getting the error message 'An error occurred while fetching or analyzing the page' at around 65% load. I'm concerned it's affecting our organic rankings. The domain is https://www.scottscastles.com/
When testing in https://testmysite.withgoogle.com/ it is also failing at around 70% with the message 'It's taking longer than expected. You can leave this tab open and check back in a little while. We'll have your results soon.' but the results never come.
I've tried testing on a few different speed testing sites without failures (https://tools.pingdom.com, https://gtmetrix.com, https://www.webpagetest.org and a few others). We’re stumped as everything appears correct and was working but now isn't. Is this Google or us, or a combination of the two?
Any help greatly appreciated!
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If you're considering other hosting providers to speed things up, look into duda.co. They have a great thing going from everything I've researched.
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Hi Nigel
Thanks for your response, much appreciated. We're aware it's a mess. We're currently rebuilding the back end from scratch, which will solve the structural problems but completion is 6 months away.
We've checked htaccess, it's not that. We have rel canonical on almost everything to fix the issue where pages show for the wrong URLs etc, it’s not ideal but fixing it is a massive job given we just need to keep it going another 6 months. We want to avoid work we will be throwing away, unless there are big wins.
Whilst communicating this to you my developer has found a fix. He said 'I’ve had to regenerate some of the SVGs, looks like someone got creative with now they built the SVG, I’ve now taken out all the creativity and hard coded the data into them.'
So it sounds very site specific.
thanks again Nigel - I've now clocked Carousel Projects UK.
Mat
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Hi imaterus
You are using a 302 directive (temporary redirect) to forward http to https - this should be changed to a 301 (permanent redirect)
You have a lot of duplicate pages like this specifying a non-www domain as well as a www?
https://www.scottscastles.com/large-holiday-homes/sleeping20.html
https://scottscastles.com/large-holiday-homes/sleeping20.htmlWhich is weird - you should have only one specified. This is part of the 944 duplicate pages problem!
You need someone to properly work on this site as it's something of a mess,
Apologies - but it is,
Kind Regards
Nigel
Carousel Projects UK
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Hi imaterus
I've looked through the robots.txt and there is nothing there.
# robotstxt.org/ Sitemap: https://www.scottscastles.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: /error/unsupported-browser.html Disallow: /search/process.html Disallow: /my-favourites/add.html Disallow: /search/quick-search.html Disallow: /search/property-list.html Disallow: /my-favourites/toggle.html Disallow: /my-favourites/remove.html Disallow: /search/map-markers.html Disallow: /my-favourites/clear.html
Maybe check through the htaccess and see if there is a directive that is holding up the crawl. If Google insights can't crawl it you may have a problem with the Google bot crawling as well which could negatively impact SEO.
Regards
NIgel
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