Keeping the Wix Homepage and Refusing to Chase Vanity Scores
April 30, 2021 Lehan Edirisinghe
The visible work is a decision not to panic: even while running low on Mirtazapine and staring at GTmetrix, I conclude that the problem is Wix's hosting ceiling, not the homepage itself, so the right move is to keep the site as it is and stop chasing empty metrics.
Choosing an Above-the-Fold Design That Grabs Attention
6:45 p.m.
This is a good measure:
The thing is, I will choose to go with this design.
Websites must always load from top to bottom.
So, the first thing you see, it matters.
This is a clever design, it has impact--excites!
People's eyes are stuck on it, they start to read.
by that time, within 7 seconds, the rest loads.
Website Loading Times and Madonna’s “Ray of Light”
9:30 p.m.
First Contentful Paint: 2.0 seconds
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.6 seconds
Onload Time: 2.8 seconds
Time to Interactive: 3.5 seconds
Fully Loaded Time: 8.0 seconds ;)
"Quicker than a ray of light
Faster than the speeding light she's flying
And I feel like I just got home (page)!"
Madonna -- Ray Of Light:
[Verse 1]
Zephyr in the sky at night, I wonder
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Prioritising the First Screen Over Full Website Load Time
4:00 a.m.
Hmm website load time results vary --
It is generally good, it is as good as it gets.
I prefer it this way because --
I know the above fold/ first desktop view --
content is all that matters --
So, even if full site takes longer to load --
it is still beneficial.
It is pictures of all the big guys --
so, I do not care if it takes 7 seconds later-
just as long as the first impression is good.
Running Low on Mirtazapine and Checking GTmetrix
4:00 a.m.
(b)
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This is the GT metrix score
It is NOT a vanity metric!
Reading Quickly While Researching How Hitler’s Threats Developed
4:00 a.m.
(c)
This is how I read quickly. I was doing research on Hitler to understand how threats happen.
Keeping the Full Homepage After Entry-Page Tests
4:30 a.m.
I will standby decision to keep our firm's home page as it is, and also avoid using separate Entry/ Landing page
These are the results of an entry page, as you can see, the site has shown the same results as previously shown --
(btw, page insights + gt metrix (this) + web . dev / measure all show the same prior results)
although it is just a little bit of text now as opposed to previously fully developed homepage and nothing else, no images, and just a button --
This implies, this is all to do with the hosting provider:
Wix
I will just keep it is as it is. Need not worry or change anything, it is beautiful the way it is
I am satisfied with what we are getting
Comparative Results Still Look the Same
4:45 a.m.
Comparative results are found, but they still reveal, the results still look the same to me....
