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ericsarratt
post Feb 4 2023, 01:29 PM
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I am going to build another website for myself. It has been a few years since I did any website work.

My website will be simple with a few pics per page and some youtube videos. It will be 30-50 pages. It is for my construction business.

1) I was told that a simple html site with a few images per page will load quicker than a site with a back end, like wix or squarespace. Is this true?

2) Does a simple html site index better with the search engines than sites built with a back end?

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post Feb 4 2023, 03:27 PM
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QUOTE(ericsarratt @ Feb 4 2023, 07:29 PM) *

1) I was told that a simple html site with a few images per page will load quicker than a site with a back end, like wix or squarespace. Is this true?


Probably. The difference probably won't be noticeable - but measurable. There are other reasons to stay away from most "web site builders". Likely they use bulky templates that are hard or impossible to make changes to.

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2) Does a simple html site index better with the search engines than sites built with a back end?


No. That depends on other things. The backend isn't visible to Google - or to the user. The result that gets to the browser is still HTML and CSS.
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post Feb 4 2023, 03:53 PM
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QUOTE(ericsarratt @ Feb 4 2023, 07:29 PM) *

1) I was told that a simple html site with a few images per page will load quicker than a site with a back end, like wix or squarespace. Is this true?

No experience with Wix.com or Squarespace.

What does often make a difference is filling pages with lots of javascripts (fancy menus, effects, trackers, etc); especially if all the script files are remotely hosted.

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2) Does a simple html site index better with the search engines than sites built with a back end?

At least in theory it might:

- If a site's database generates pages based on form input by the visitors (say search queries) you can get countless different web page versions. In such a case a search engine bot may get lost in the maze and give up further indexing, unless you provide it with a sitemap.

- On a simple/static site you can manually create URLs containing keywords that a search engine may index, as opposed to some database-driven sites with more cryptic URLs. For example, the URL of this forum thread is rather useless:

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https://forums.htmlhelp.com/index.php?showtopic=61234

I suspect it would have been much better like this, both for search engines and human users:

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https://forums.htmlhelp.com/web-authoring/markup-html-xhtml-xml/simple-html-site-still-the-fastest.html
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post Feb 4 2023, 09:27 PM
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QUOTE(ericsarratt @ Feb 4 2023, 01:29 PM) *

1) I was told that a simple html site with a few images per page will load quicker than a site with a back end, like wix or squarespace. Is this true?

Absolutely. Even the most basic of back-end "glue" outperforms incompetent dimestore hoodoo-voodoo like wix or squarespace.Much like "front end frameworks" the only thing you can learn from those types of systems is how NOT to build websites. They are SCAMS.

As to search that all comes down to how you write your code. If you use numbered headings properly, don't skip your ALT text on images, maintain separation of presentation from content, your on page SEO will dance circles around most of the "off the shelf" site-builders that spend more time worrying about what a site looks like, than they do what the content actually is from a grammatical and structural standpoint.

Which is why sites built with wix and squarespace -- or with nonsense like bootstrap or tailwind -- or "scripting only" answers like using react or vue for "client side rendering" -- tells large swaths of users with accessibility needs to sod off. You tell accessibility to shove it, you're telling search to take a hike along the way.

No matter how many ignorant fools sing the praises of the scams, doesn't make them any less of a scam. The "popularity" of that garbage existing near entirely out of propaganda and ignorance.
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