What can I change in this to make this not have an error when it's being checked?

[GoActive]

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

[Gondwana]

Those images contain far more pixels than will ever be displayed.

[ManBearPig]

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.

[GoActive]

For LCP I get this

[GoActive]

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.

[catkin]

@GoActive

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.

[ManBearPig]

To remove that warning, simply select the image first. Then, on the bottom toolbar, drag it upwards to reveal the Attributes option. In the relevant boxes, type fetchpriority and set its value to high.

This should only be applied to an image at the top of your page. Images further down don’t need a high fetch priority.

[GoActive]

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.

[printninja]

Please take this as constructive criticism. This is not meant to discourage you, but to help you.

If you want to build a website development company where you’re going to charge clients by the month, I would dedicated some serious time to updating your skills in terms of modern website design, mobile-friendliness, mobile UI and UX optimization, on-page SEO, and general attention to detail.

I looked over some of your website links. The designs are very dated (understandable if they were built many years ago) but they also incorporate techniques that are not only discouraged by Google at this point, but they could actually hurt your page rank.

Doing a quick survey of your example websites, I see numerous fundamental errors… missing (or poorly written) <h1> tags. Poor page titles. Missing meta descriptions. Missing favicons (poison when looking at the Google SERP.) Missing anchor link text. Missing Alt tags and Aria labels. Keyword stuffing. Layout issues (see pic below). Inline CSS. Phone numbers that cannot be tapped on mobile. Broken links to external sites. There are large photos being shrunk with browser-side scaling. Text that is too small to read, or has contrast issues, and so on.

There’s a glaring absence of prominent CTAs, social media links, user reviews, About Us pages, FAQs. There are no privacy policies. No terms of service, or even a way to contact the website developer. These are all massive trust signals in the 2020’s.

It doesn’t appear as though you use Google Analytics, which is a totally free and extremely helpful tool.

I’m sorry if all this sounds a bit harsh, but I make my living doing this exact type of monthly model (going on 16 years,) and it’s not easy. You can make good, steady (almost passive) income with a website subscription model, but you have to provide a lot more than the typical $50 a month Wix, or Squarespace, or WordPress template-based website.

Switching to Bootstrap Studio will likely help with a lot of your issues because you can automatically optimize images, check the website for issues like important missing elements, and the framework itself will help to prevent layout issues, but you really need to get yourself up to speed, modernize, and learn what is important to the search engines in 2026. Getting to #1 is more than just checking all the boxes like we did ten years ago. The ranking algorithms are a lot more complex and I dare say, “smarter.” They can almost understand whether a website delivers a good or poor user experience.

I recommend you setup a Gemini (or similar) account and use the AI tool to audit some of your existing websites, and let it teach you what to do. Let it give you suggestions and explain exactly what you need to do to make your websites modern, polished and technically excellent. Then you should be able to charge a lot more than $64 a month.

[GoActive]

This is one of the reasons why I’m reworking a lot of the websites.

A lot of the websites are very old and haven’t been reworked in a very long time. But they’re all still doing great. On page one For most searches people would be looking for them.

We are still doing the bookings for the new owners. And they’re getting close to already having the websites paid for from the photography business we sold to them. From the bookings we’ve been doing for them.

I actually just recently purchased Live Canvas, which is an HTML front-end basically for WordPress.
It’s allowing me to change over some of these Beaver Builder sites to a Bootstrap HTML version but within WordPress. It was a better solution than using Bootstrap Studio for changing these sites over.

I can actually even export it as html out and bring it into Bootstrap Studio, but I’m running some plugins that need to run from WordPress for some ordering systems so for on some of the sites it still needs to stay on WordPress. So for this, Live Canvas is working out great. I purchased a Lifetime license for it as well.
So for anything that needs to be WordPress, I will use Live Canvas. And for other non-WordPress sites, I’ll get back into Bootstrap Studio.
But I will say, using Live Canvas for doing the design, the interface is actually much easier to use than Bootstrap Studio. Then I can export it all out, everything that I designed, into Bootstrap Studio. And have Bootstrap Studio recompile it for its use for static sites.

So right now I’m focusing on getting the four different sites all changed over that we sold. And yes, I am using AI now to help with not only local and on-page SEO, but SEO for AI search.
None of this was available in the past.
Plus Live Canvas has AI built into it very much like Bootstrap Studio. You can load in a Image of another website area and it will basically create that for you. Or you can grab code from another website and so on.
So between these two programs, I think I have everything I want covered as far as being able to design sites that will run faster versus older WordPress builders.

Here’s the first site that I just changed over a few days ago. This was all done in Live Canvas.

Home - Fort Morgan Photographer

And my page speeds for both cell phone and desktop are fantastic. This website has already been ranking on page one for years for many search looks, so this is just going to improve it a little bit more against any new competitors Plus, move it away from Beaver Builder that we’re no longer going to be paying for.. I still have a few things I could fix on it, a little bit more. But I’m working on the next site right now. I’ve got three more of them to move over for the new owner.
I created this from a blank page. And then just using some free made areas and so on.
The images are all compressed to WebP for faster loading.
More design for cell phone first. Since over the years, more and more of our customers have switched over to basically using their cell phone finding us and making their orders now.

Some of my older personal sites I’m going to switch them over using Bootstrap Studio. I like how I can use FTPT to update it from local. I don’t have anything special in them I would need to run from a WordPress back end.

And the rental sites idea, I’m still thinking a lot about that. I would try to do them in Bootstrap Studio, but maybe design first in Live Canvas, since I find that to be a lot easier to work in.

And I’ve also been catching back up watching a lot of videos on SEO and AI SEO and AI web creation and so on.
I’m very well outfitted with the right programs and the right computer to do all this.

I think as I pointed out many years ago, I did this a lot. I did a lot of websites for people, but our other business was making more money, so we dropped doing the websites to focus on the photography business. Well now we’ve sold the photography business and our wedding business, so I want to fall back into website design. I enjoy making websites and spending the time on them.

I need to rework my main website for my website business that hasn’t been redone in years and it’s been kind of repurposed just showing a bunch of videos because we have YouTube channels as well.

So thanks for the information and I am working on all this.
I do have a Gemini account and I have been using it to help. I also use Perplexity, their comet interface, because I can switch providers as well with it.
And have my own local open source models I can run.

[GoActive]

I also wanted to add I created this website with Bootstrap Studio - Perdido Key Wedding Officiant a shot time ago. Basically, this was all AI created, including all the images I just changed some of the text around. I haven’t even got around to changing the images out to real ones yet.

When doing a search for Perdido Key Wedding Officiant, the site is already at the top of the page. #2 for an organic listing. Only being beat by my other site that’s number one.

For Gulf Shores Wedding Officiant, where I have a side page for Perdido Key. The Gulf Shores version of the site produces jobs weekly around 8 months out of the year. I’m currently still doing them. We just did three weddings in the last week, including one early this morning All booked from the Gulf Shores site.
So if I could rent this Perdido Key version to somebody, I could take down my Perdido Key extra page from the other site. If they average $200 per job, if I charge them $600 a year to use it, they’d only have to do three jobs, and the rest would be extra money.
Maybe I should charge more, I’m not sure.

So this Perdido Key site could be ready to rent at this point since it’s already at the top of the page and it’s only main competition is my other site that I own.

[GoActive]

I wanted to do an update on this. I worked on a few more of the sites.

Here’s the newest one. I did add the privacy page and in fact every page on the site was created with AI Chat GPT working in Comet and then I went section by section with AI having it tweak out the SEO also for AI search.
And then when it was all done, I fed it back all the HTML code and had it re-look at it again and it tweaked it out even more. And it created some special schema, for example, on the Frequently Asked Questions page, which I really like how it made that. I would have never done it that way.

I haven’t went in and had Google re-index it In the Google console, I still need to put the code in there for that. We’ll be getting around to that.

I originally started laying out the page myself and then when I switched over to having AI look at it, it would point it out that I had too many repeated items. So then I just told it, recreate the page the way you think it should be," and it did.
So I continued on doing one page at a time so it kept the same look for the site. This is what it ended up with. Once again this was all done with live canvas so it’s sitting on top of WordPress because I’m using the calculated fields plug-in for the contact form and for the order form for ordering portrait sessions. My page speeds jumped up massively for both desktop and cell phone as well and it moved the site up to an A grade.

All the images are optimized for WebP. The only two large images on the whole site are on two pages for the hero images and they are WebP as well. Not using any pop-up images. Don’t feel like we need to do that for photography sites anymore, since most people are looking at them on cell phones or smaller laptops or iPads.

I have two more sites to go, one of them I have partially made, but I’m waiting on the customer to provide a lot of information that we don’t have, including photos. And I need to move it to a different server. I don’t have his information to do that.
The last site I have access to, but we’re right in the middle of the booking season right now. I’m afraid to touch that site too much because it’s already number one for most things in the area. I don’t want to maybe mess something up, maybe till the end of June. That way we’ll have mostly July and August booked by then.
Anyways, here’s the link to this new version of this site. This was moved away from a Beaver Builder built site.

According to ChatGPT, this is tweaked out for AI search, giving customers what they would be looking for if they’re doing a long phrase search for AI search. It had me put a photo and information of the photographer on the homepage And some of the frequently asked questions on the homepage..
And it basically wrote three of the newest blog posts to provide more information for AI Search that I added in some of my own information and then images from the photographer.
https://beachweddingshots.com

Here’s one of the other ones. This was basically tweaked out more for cell phones. Doesn’t look as good on a large screen, but not bad. This has the privacy statement as well and AI was used to help create a lot of it to also be geared a lot towards AI search now..
https://orangebeachfamilyportraits.com

[GoActive]

I wanted to add what I also was having ChattGPT do is basically rate the site versus other photographers in this area.

I had it search for the other top 10 photographers for a search phrase and compare this new version of the site to those live sites. This was before I even put the site live, just giving it the code of the homepage.
And it did this, it even created a chart showing me where I would sit for different types of searches and AI search.
Because of page speeds improvements and the overall completely different reworking of the site, I should get this site moving up to within the top 5 and for AI search, at least that’s what it says. time will tell.

Only really being beat out by one other photographer in the area because they have a lot of Google reviews and more backlinks and this site has no Google reviews and not much for backlinks.

But other sites in the area, photographers don’t have hardly any backlinks or reviews so I should be up there beating them for this site according to chat GPT’s analysis at least.

A few other sites in the area are made with older Elementor. I should beat all of them for page speed.

[printninja]

Google’s ranking algorithm is a fickle beast, and ChatGPT doesn’t always give the best advice when it comes to improving your website in terms of SEO and page rank. You’re better off using Gemini, since it’s a Google product and (ostensibly) understands the Google ecosystem a bit better. I’ve have ChatGPT produce JavaScript that Gemini tore apart.

I have websites that score perfect 100’s across the board and they still get outranked by WordPress nightmares that score 20 on mobile performance. Lighthouse scores do not translate into being #1 in the search results. Getting perfect scores definitely helps, but if a competitor’s website is outranking you for reasons other than your on-page SEO, getting that last 9 on Performance or 7 on Accessibility in Lighthouse is no guarantee you will leapfrog the competitor (even if their Lighthouse scores are abysmal.) There are other factors… backlinks (obviously), Google Business (reviews, posts, photos (esp from third parties)), and sometimes just the way things are written on the site, keywords in headings, text on the page. Like I said, Google can be fickle.

And there are other aspects… algorithms which affect the ranking that Google keeps under wraps. For example, you may not outrank your competitor this month even though their page loads slowly, but if your competitor has a very good months with a lot of traffic, but a lot of that traffic bounces because people don’t want to wait 8 seconds for the page to open, Google probably pays attention to that high bounce rate, and could demote the site as a result.

Sometimes it’s totally out of your hands. Visitor behavior on our competitors websites is likely a ranking factor, and one we can’t control. Your site loads ultra fast, but does it have the traffic (proof to Google) of people visiting and staying so Google says, “okay, this site had a lot of visits with a very low bounce rate, it deserves a boost in the search results.”

We simply don’t know how this works in terms of ranking.

[GoActive]

Yes, I agree. I’m using a mixture of Chat GPT, Gemini, Claude, and for the other design work, I really like Kimi the best.
Most of the sites I’ve been doing lately are photography sites that were already showing up pretty decent. It’s keeping its ratings. I think the one just moved up a little bit more even now that it’s been over a week or so just for the increase in speed.
The main site, I actually haven’t touched it because it is booking all the jobs right now. They have 12 bookings now so far in June.That’s quite good. My wife is doing the bookings for them, but the people are all contacting us from the websites.

I’m focusing a lot on the AI search now that Google basically officially announced.
I’m working on a quite large site for myself for a moving to the country of Panama guide.
We’ll be putting our house up for sale in the next day or so. I’ve got all the pictures ready. And as soon as it sells, we’ll be moving to Panama.
The main purpose of this site is basically to provide a lot of free information but to point people to our YouTube videos that we’ll be making a lot of when we’re in Panama. I have about five or six more I’m getting ready to edit from our last trip there to post.

When I get done with this one, I’m going to be working on one for a product we will be selling. I’ll be doing that in Bootstrap Studio as well.
We’ve had the number one website in the United States for it, with a direct match name for a few years now, but I haven’t had the time to get the product compiled together, and a shopping cart and everything put together for it. Now that we’ve sold the photography businesses, this is giving me the time to start doing all this.
But we still have more things to sell here And then sell the house And a lot of things to deal with, with moving.

I think I just figured out how to finally make my menu items and footer items all sync when I make a change or add an item to them. It seems to be working now on the site I’m working on…