SEO improvements

[chrifro]

• add robots.txt (This file can protect private content from appearing online, save bandwidth, and lower load time on your server. A missing "robots.txt" file also generates additional errors in your apache log whenever robots request one.)
  This doesn't seem neccessary according to google

Does my website need a robots.txt file?
No. When Googlebot visits a website, we first ask for permission to crawl by attempting to retrieve the robots.txt file. A website without a robots.txt file, robots meta tags or X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers will generally be crawled and indexed normally.

• apparently there are 5 missing alt tags (e.g. the image next to where teams code together)

• This website loads 9 javascript files. This seems to affect the load time negatively. Can we reduce them? -fixed by implementing the tweets manually

• please check these items to improve page speed https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.gitpod.io

this is the updated version of #561

[nisarhassan12]

@ChristinFrohne We can significantly reduce the amount of JavaScript if we were to remove the Twitter embeds i.e all the tweets seem to load their own separate (non-blocking)JS files which sums up to 31.70 MB which is insane.

I know we could not get rid of the tweets but maybe instead of the twitter embeds we can re-create them ourself that way we will be able to get rid of 31.70 MB of JavaScript being shipped ?

As a comparsion www.gitpod.io/ i.e the homepage ships 7 JavaScript files summing up to 456.13KB which is less then 0.5 MB.

[nisarhassan12]

Doc search is a feature that is available for /docs not sure why the CSS and JavaScript for the search which is added via Algolia doc search are loaded on every page.

[nisarhassan12]

Currently we are serving the fonts from Google Fonts would be better to serve them from our own CDN alongside other resources. I'll make a Pr for that.

https://www.tunetheweb.com/blog/should-you-self-host-google-fonts/

[nisarhassan12]

There are some issues related to image performance. https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-image/ Can help us address the below issues. @ChristinFrohne Should I make a Pr for it ?

[chrifro]

Thanks for looking deeper into this @nisarhassan12

we can re-create them ourself that way we will be able to get rid of 31.70 MB of JavaScript being shipped ?

Would the size be significant smaller then? If so, it seems like a great solution. Then we could also adjust the style of the card and add some information to it. (e.g. Ben Halpern, Founder of dev.to)

Doc search is a feature that is available for /docs not sure why the CSS and JavaScript for the search which is added via Algolia doc search are loaded on every page.

What is the impact of that? Could you look deeper into this if it's relevant?

Currently we are serving the fonts from Google Fonts would be better to serve them from our own CDN alongside other resources. I'll make a Pr for that.

Please make sure to focus on the things that bring us a significant improvement and weigh up the invested time versus the outcome. How big is the impact of self-hosting the fonts?

There are some issues related to image performance. https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-image/ Can help us address the below issues. @ChristinFrohne Should I make a Pr for it ?

Yes, please do so.

[nisarhassan12]

Doc search is a feature that is available for /docs not sure why the CSS and JavaScript for the search which is added via Algolia doc search are loaded on every page.

I have opened an issue for it ironstar-io/gatsby-plugin-algolia-docsearch#5. Let's see what the creators of the plugin think.