When doing a speed test, this is one of the biggest areas where it’s saying I can increase the speed by fixing these items. I know what a few of them are. The fill in form and some of the fonts. I’m not sure what the other items are. I’m not sure why one even say Cloudflare on it.?
This is my first site posting from Bootstrap Studio. I still have quite a bit more work to do on it but I could do it all live. I own this site and just re-getting it back up, it’s been down for some time.
Here’s a screenshot. I’m getting an 82 on cell phone. Very close to getting that into green. I think I need to hit 90. I have a 98 on desktop. I just posted the site to my hosting account. https://perdidokeyweddingofficiant.com
You can’t really do much about it — nor is it something worth worrying about.
Paste an Amazon URL into the tool and look at the score they get for their network dependency tree. It’ll make yours look exceptionally good. In fact, yours is better than mine.
What recommendations are you seeing for the other items, such as the LCP request discovery? I may be able to help with that one.
I’m going to replace all the pictures. Those were AI generated. I’m going to replace them with real ones. And resize them accordingly. And compress them.
This site used to rank number one back when it was up, but it hasn’t been up in over a year. Due to HostGator crappy hosting One of their servers messed up. I had to move stuff to another host and in the process… I just didn’t put that site up. We don’t like driving that far over to Perdido Key, so I’m putting it back up to get it back going so I can rent it to someone in that area When it’s all done.
Our new plan for this year is to create fast websites, get them to number one for different topics, and then just rent them to people for a monthly fee. Shooting for 20 sites to rent for $64 a month paid yearly to give us an extra $15,000 as we’re going into retirement. Once I get better at using Bootstrap Studio, I should be able to knock these sites out very fast.
No offence, and not trying to put a dampener on your plans, but I’ve been running a web services business for years and I genuinely can’t see how this works in practice.
The pricing is where it falls apart for me. Web hosting is cheap. And Wix, Squarespace and similar give clients a fully editable site, their own branding, and support, often for less than $64 a month. So the pitch to each of those 20 clients becomes: why pay that monthly for a site you don’t own, can’t edit, and has been made my a novice web developer… even if these sites rank first in search?
From my own experience, getting clients to pay consistently for web services is harder than it looks. I wouldn’t feel confident charging that monthly myself, my sites cost in the thousands range, one off, with hosting being under £10/month and my hourly rate being about £25/hour.
Web development also isn’t passive income, even if it’s often sold as that. Sites need ongoing attention. Design trends change, SEO algorithms shift, what ranks well today might not next year. Every search engine ranks differently and has its own tooling. AI is eating into traditional search traffic too, which changes how people find sites, businesses and information entirely.
Building a site is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s privacy policies, cookie compliance, terms of service, metadata, OpenGraph, schema markup, accessibility, performance, robots.txt, sitemaps, security, hosting architecture, content management systems and more. All of that will need different levels of maintaining.
Clients also increasingly undervalue what development actually costs. Because of AI tools and website builders I know many clients are put off and don’t understand my actual hourly rate, and won’t pay that. That’s just the market right now.
Based on your posts here you’re still getting to grips with Bootstrap Studio and web development fundamentals, which is fine, everyone starts somewhere. But this doesn’t seem realistic to me.
Something you’d maybe like to try, that worked for me when I was growing was to build sites for local businesses that either had a poor website site or no website at all, visit them and then sell them on what I’ve built. If they are not interested, you can reuse code and designs, or find a similar business.
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Basically, I’m just getting back into something that I’ve done for years.
I’ve made hundreds and hundreds of websites over the years, going back to when the internet first started. I’ve used many different web development programs over the years as well.
I started using Beaver Builder two months after they released it. I actually went into my back end the other day and I had over 120 sites still in there.
But most of them have been ended and are not up. At one point I was doing websites full time, but we were still doing another business as well.
A very long time ago I had my own web server at a co-location facility and I was paying for the whole thing to be backed up and someone never hooked up the backup stuff right and I lost around 40 people’s websites this was over 30 years ago. After that I switched to paid hosting with unlimited plans. I used to have four different plans at HostGator Going way back when they first started.
For a little while I was doing a lot of locksmith websites. I had around 20 of them up, all on page one in each town area they worked in.
But our other business was making more money, so I ended up stopping making websites much and focusing more on the other business that we’ve been doing.
But I still managed some of the sites. Many of the people have all went out of business. Some retired.
Here’s one of them I made. This one I made years ago. It’s been up for a very long time. And they still do very well with it due to the SEO. I Haven’t needed to do any updates on it in years. I still host it for them. https://barkerslock.com
Here’s another one. This was a site that was changed to be very basic. Another person owned it, and then I had to change it over to this new owner. But it stays number one in this area all the time Basically exact match https://bransonlocksmithservice.com I no longer update this site or host it.
Here’s another one that also stays at the top for searches for that area within the top 3 or 4 websites and has been for years. It’s also a very old site. I’m still hosting this as well, but I haven’t needed to make any changes to it. They haven’t asked for any. https://a1mobilelockandkey.com
Every locksmith website I did back then, I got to page one for the town they worked in.
And all our websites for our business have been on page one ever since they’ve been started.
We run a photography and wedding business. We just sold the main wedding business last year that included four number one page ranking websites. I had over 50 pages indexed in Google that basically covered every single search phrase anyone could think of, they would find us.
Now the new owners, not knowing any better, let some friend of theirs redo the website and change it to a 6 page site. Losing and didn’t even keep the names of the pages the same. They just lost over 50 indexed pages and over hundreds of photos that were in Google Images all pointing back to the site. now click on to 401 pages that Google is slowly removing.
We’re in the process of selling our photography business. It might be sold tomorrow or by the end of this week. This includes three websites, each for the town areas that we work in, that are all ranking on page one.
We also do wedding officiant work. Like the website that I just designed using Bootstrap Strap Studio was a side site for an area that we don’t work in anymore. But the area we do work in, we have the number one website and have been for years. this site We still run this and I still go out and marry people. I’m ordained and a notary to be able to notarize through paperwork. https://gulfshoresweddingofficiant.com
So yes, in the past I was doing this. Actually longer than most people.
But I have been using Beaver Builder Like I pointed out, since the second month it was out, building all my sites I haven’t made a pure HTML site until this new one that I’m working on.
I used to have a really awesome website design website and then HostGators had a server crash and I lost a bunch of websites. After they changed ownership many years ago everything went downhill.
I don’t know if this Wayback link works, but here’s kind of what the website looked like using the Wayback Machine. I actually had a rocket blast video in the background on the top of the site with the rocket blasting off. It was super cool back then.https://web.archive.org/web/20161004145051/http://goactivemedia.com/
I’ve had that website since 2001. Right now the site is a mess. That’s one of the sites I plan on rebuilding with Bootstrap Studio as I get more familiar with it and learn how to use it better.
So don’t count me out yet. I’m getting old, but I’m not a Beginner at this. Just someone getting back into it.
As for the renting the sites plan, I got that idea from what other people are doing that seem to be doing quite well with it.
I’m pretty positive I can get websites to be number one in certain areas for different topics. I’ve done it basically for hundreds and hundreds of sites.
So why someone would want to pay that? Because they would get more jobs, because I would be putting their phone number and contact information on the site. They don’t have to pay to have a website made that doesn’t rank well. They don’t have to worry about maintenance in it. And they don’t need to do blog posts. If the site drops down and they don’t start booking, then they don’t have to pay for it anymore.
I have two sites I’m going to test this one with. One is the Perdido Key site And I already have a few people I think that would rent that. I’m still working on that I put up and I still own another locksmith site that I should be able to get to number one in no time because it’s a direct match for the town name as well.
For that type of business, if I could get my site to get them more calls than some other sites that they have, the small amount of $65 a month is nothing compared to what they would make off of one call.
Another option is for some ideas to book the jobs ourselves and then take a commission from the job and have a few people lined up to then go do the jobs. For example, there’s lots of wedding ministers, officiants around the area. I could book a job and I could find one of them that I have a deal worked out with to go do the job that we could make, say, $50 commission off every job. Summer months here, we have over a hundred weddings going on a day and sometimes I could possibly book three or four different officiants a day, Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays.
I know this because we are a wedding officiant and we turn down way more jobs than we could possibly do. I should have been making a commission giving them away to other people years ago but we’ve been giving them away for free.
Same thing with our photography business that we’re in the process of selling. The new owners have already asked if we would continue doing the bookings for them. And we will make $50 commission off every booking we do. In the summer months coming up here, we could realistically book seven days a week if they’re ready to work that much. Years ago we used to work over sometimes 90 days straight in summer shooting jobs. That’s why I quit doing websites, because I was making much more money in this photography and wedding business.
We were doing small one-hour beach weddings and making $1,500 to $1,600 for one hour. We would set up a wedding arch, provide the photography, and the minister. We’d be on the beach no more than two and a half hours total, and we’d be on our way back home.
I actually enjoy making websites and now with all the AI technology bringing into it, I’m very much into all that.
I have 128 gigabytes of RAM on my Mac and I have AI set up where I can make my own images here and run quite large models locally.
I started my own AI brand and website but I haven’t figured out how to make any money off this so it’s just been kind of a fun thing making some AI images. Even the images on this website are old now compared to how much better they are with the newer AI technology. https://pixelblastai.com
But back to the site rentals, if I don’t get the page to number one or in the top five versus someone’s site that’s maybe on page five or something or someone who doesn’t have a site yet then I probably won’t be able to get that much for it. But I’m very good at hitting niche markets and getting sites to number one for different areas and working a lot on keeping up with the newer AI search abilities.
I’ve never been a coder. I’ve always been someone who just figures out how to make it work. I even had Dreamweaver way back when it first came out.
