Hi Terry, Such a valuable feedback and analysis! Thanks for doing this.
At least I can assist Mauricio reviewing and committing the changes. Mauricio, as a contributor, you can grab the site source from here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ignite/site/trunk — Denis > On Feb 3, 2017, at 2:43 PM, Terry Erisman <teris...@gridgain.com> wrote: > > Hi Igniters, > > > > We have completed the initial stage of analyzing the Apache Ignite website. > Based on the initial review, we identified the following issues: > > > > * An http and https version of the site are both resolving. Neither > has a canonical tag on them. > > * Https is the one being submitted in sitemaps > > * There are no canonical tags found anywhere on the site. A > self-referencing should be implemented on every page that should be indexed > as is. > * There is a large disparity between the sitemap pages indexed and the > total pages found in the Google index. > > * 2,895 submitted in the sitemap --> 739 indexed by Google > > * Many of these are documentation javadoc pages > > * Crawl found 32,000 > * Sitemap contains 1,011 > * Index contains 2,240 > > * 12,200 pages found in the Google index > > * No Schema is implemented > * No Meta Descriptions are present > * Page Titles could use some optimizations > > > > Based on these findings to date, we would like to do the following: > > > > * Create a canonical tag on the https: version of the site and > implement 301 redirects from the http: pages to the https: versions > > * Explore the issue of the sitemap and indexed pages further and > report back the findings and suggested changes at that time. It is generally > not a good situation that the site has 12,200 pages indexed by Google when > we are submitting 2,895 via the sitemap with only 739 of those are being > indexed by Google. The perfect situation would be that we submitted X pages > and Google indexed all X of those pages - we won't get to that point on a > site of this size, but we are a long way from it. > > * We will explore the issue of implementing Schema and develop a > plan for rolling it out across the website. > > * We will create a list of pages which require meta descriptions > and/or page title optimizations and begin developing recommendations for the > modifications on a page-by-page basis. > > > > I spoke with Mauricio Stekl who volunteered to apply the required changes > and contribute them back to the Ignite website's source code. Are there any > committers who are willing to review the changes and merge them? > > > > Our SEO audit is ongoing and we are exploring many other aspects of the > website. The above list is the first set of actionable feedback. There will > almost certainly be more. > > > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. > > > > Best, > > > > Terry > > > > teris...@gridgain.com <mailto:teris...@gridgain.com> > > > > >
