Please review the new website of the London domain summit

[Helmuts]

Hey guys and ladies,

Feedback and constructive criticism is the best thing when starting a new website, and it would be great to receive some valuable feedback from the Acorn community for the website I am doing for the Domain industry summit in London this August.

URL: https://summit.london

CMS: WP
Tickets sold at: EventBrite (sky-high fees, but good additional exposure)
Sponsored passes applications received through the default Contact Form 7. Does the job, though somehow I'm not too happy about the limited information received.

I am working on a sponsorship PDF, most probably the sponsor/exhibitor checkout will be done using WooCommerce + Stripe.

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Not done:
main legal pages (in progress)
seo plugin (metas, etc). will probably use rankmath
sitemaps
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Worried about: too many images, as these result in a heavy website. Will be addressing these at a later stage.

Pingdom report link: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5fc86fd904800000

Any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated as the time is not on our side and wish to be as effective as possible!

Thank you in advance,
Helmuts

 

[Helmuts]

Thinking of displaying all sponsored ticket (free) attendees A-Z in a table.. which links would be important apart from FB and linkedin?

 

[Helmuts]

added a timer on the frontpage

 

[Ben Thomas]

Use Litespeed Web Server with LSCache plugin linked to QUIC.cloud to optimise your images automatically to webp.

 

[Helmuts]

Use Litespeed Web Server with LSCache plugin linked to QUIC.cloud to optimise your images automatically to webp.

Thank you for the suggestion, though in this case I would need it put on a different server. Have put the website on our shared Cloud (includes all a webmaster would need).

did some basic work with images and reduced them to much smaller sizes:

strangely, the report shows the total image size is 1mb, should be less.. later on will invest some time to find what creates this discrepancy (probably some auto-generated thumbnail)

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p.s. all frontpage images, apart from the logo, load from imgur

 

[Helmuts]

the images seem to be fine