Sunday, May 3, 2020

AMP & images

So I've had my website for about 6 months now, and although one page is getting around 80 visitors a day, everything else is quite underwhelming (about 5 - 10 visitors a day). Of course, I know they're are other ranking factors than just images, but I'm concerned that's what's letting me down.

Quite a few of my posts are "ten of the most famous paintings by ...", and so for these posts, there's 10 images (+ featured image). For these pages, I've enabled AMP, and each image is around 1200 pixels in width. At one point, I thought my images were too large and slowing down my pages, so I replaced them with smaller images, only for Google to tell my they were too small for AMP.

Would I be better off sticking with AMP or disabling AMP for these pages, and adding images that are around 500 pixels in width instead?

Also, because I've changed the images a lot, there's a lot in the "media library", could this also be a hindrance?

I use Wordpress and my domain is hosted by Wordpress as well (it isn't one of those .wordpress.blog ones though). However, when I first started out, I used one of the free domains, and all of my images seem to be saved to this domain (when I open an image in a new tab, the old domain is shown in the URL bar).

I'm only on a personal plan so can't install plugins like lazyload. I have however put all my images through a jpg compression software to reduce file size.

Any help appreciated!

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