New site looking for feedback

[Coinchaser]

Hello!

Launched this site GottaGamble.com a few weeks ago - and I would appreciate some feedback!

GottaGamble is a crypto casino affiliate site that is custom built from scratch - you might notice that from the sleek crypto theme. It also features some nice functions for users, such as: casino/bonus comparison tool, crypto calculator / crypto prices + an easy-to-use search navigation.

Is there anything you feel is missing?

What can be done better?

Appreciate anyone taking their time to check and comment about positive/negative feedback, it will all be taken to consideration!

Thanks in advance!

[nwalker]

Persoanlly I'd ditch the cartoon character. If Kristoffer is indeed an expert, show a real picture of him and link to his Linkedin Profile, Facebook, Twitter accounts and if he's active on Forrums, his forum account. This is one of the best ways of building authority not only with your visitors but with google.

[Coinchaser]

Persoanlly I'd ditch the cartoon character. If Kristoffer is indeed an expert, show a real picture of him and link to his Linkedin Profile, Facebook, Twitter accounts and if he's active on Forrums, his forum account. This is one of the best ways of building authority not only with your visitors but with google.

Hey nwalker,

Thanks for your valuable feedback, I will have that sorted out

[chaumi]

A great start I'd suggest. From the few pages I looked at, well written, useful (although you could say 'useful' from the perspective of the same level of coverage many other sites have already done, you could probably benefit from finding some unique - or at least lesser-covered/lower competition - angles).

But...

Assuming it's search engine recognition you want...your biggest problem is 1.level of competition and 2. how you break into that so the SE's see you as being as authoritative as they are.

Obviously you'll need links and significantly deeper coverage (and tbh even those might not be enough)

Both clearly take effort and time (and money).

But it might pay to try and narrow what you're doing and try to get a foot in the door (while you also do that other stuff as well)

So, the path is already set. You cant go narrower than you're doing (without major rework).

"Your One-Stop Guide to Crypto Gambling"

So, it's possible you're diluting - and perhaps misrepresenting (in the eyes of search engines) - your core proposition.

The site's purely about casinos and casino gaming. But 'gambling' is everything - sports betting, poker, bingo, lotteries etc etc

If you intended to keep to casino gambling only, then it might pay to try and angle your core proposition towards casino, in which case the strap line would be "Your One-Stop Guide to Crypto Casino Gambling" and, across all pages/posts, the underlying message would be 'crypto casino gambling', plus ofc your homepage title, description, schema etc would all be structured towards 'casino gambling'.

If the intention is to tack on other gambling-related subjects, then it's good as it is. But you're not covering the extra subjects (yet), so theoretically you couldn't be a viable candidate for general gambling authority.

You could argue, why does this matter? If I search 'crypto gambling' I get a bunch of sites talking about casinos.

Well, the big boys can get away with anything. But you have a battle. Small things might help, and this might be one of them.

[newcustomeroffer]

Looks good on first glance, took a long time to load here though (could be my connection!) - to Chaumi's point on breaking into search engines, might be worth tweaking some of the elements slowing the site down. Great start though and good luck!

[universal4]

Yea I agree the first load took a long time on the home page. The images in svg format are really huge and could possibly be optimized helping that part a bit.

Overall nice looking site.

Rick
Universal4

[iso2009]

Same issue here: you must fix the load speed, it loads slow for 2025. Don't assume visitors will wait for it to load, when they are used to other (much faster) websites. This is really an UX issue, not a Google obsession (or it might be both, but anyway, it matters).

On the other hand, the sites looks really nice. Congrats!

[Coinchaser]

A great start I'd suggest. From the few pages I looked at, well written, useful (although you could say 'useful' from the perspective of the same level of coverage many other sites have already done, you could probably benefit from finding some unique - or at least lesser-covered/lower competition - angles).

But...

Assuming it's search engine recognition you want...your biggest problem is 1.level of competition and 2. how you break into that so the SE's see you as being as authoritative as they are.

Obviously you'll need links and significantly deeper coverage (and tbh even those might not be enough)

Both clearly take effort and time (and money).

But it might pay to try and narrow what you're doing and try to get a foot in the door (while you also do that other stuff as well)

So, the path is already set. You cant go narrower than you're doing (without major rework).

"Your One-Stop Guide to Crypto Gambling"

So, it's possible you're diluting - and perhaps misrepresenting (in the eyes of search engines) - your core proposition.

The site's purely about casinos and casino gaming. But 'gambling' is everything - sports betting, poker, bingo, lotteries etc etc

If you intended to keep to casino gambling only, then it might pay to try and angle your core proposition towards casino, in which case the strap line would be "Your One-Stop Guide to Crypto Casino Gambling" and, across all pages/posts, the underlying message would be 'crypto casino gambling', plus ofc your homepage title, description, schema etc would all be structured towards 'casino gambling'.

If the intention is to tack on other gambling-related subjects, then it's good as it is. But you're not covering the extra subjects (yet), so theoretically you couldn't be a viable candidate for general gambling authority.

You could argue, why does this matter? If I search 'crypto gambling' I get a bunch of sites talking about casinos.

Well, the big boys can get away with anything. But you have a battle. Small things might help, and this might be one of them.

Thank you so much for taking your time for this very useful feedback, it got me thinking a bit and I will definetly taking your points to consideration! Much appreciated for this

[Coinchaser]

Looks good on first glance, took a long time to load here though (could be my connection!) - to Chaumi's point on breaking into search engines, might be worth tweaking some of the elements slowing the site down. Great start though and good luck!

Yea I agree the first load took a long time on the home page. The images in svg format are really huge and could possibly be optimized helping that part a bit.

Overall nice looking site.

Rick
Universal4

Same issue here: you must fix the load speed, it loads slow for 2025. Don't assume visitors will wait for it to load, when they are used to other (much faster) websites. This is really an UX issue, not a Google obsession (or it might be both, but anyway, it matters).

On the other hand, the sites looks really nice. Congrats!

I agree with all of you regarding the page speed and that the SVGs needs to be fixed, actually I haven't even touched that part yet but I will get to it, and have the site fully optimizied shortly!

Anyways, thanks a lot for your valuable feedback and nice words about the site - I appreciate it!

[wonderpunter]

slow to load but that's an easy fix, i would break up the text with some images

[Coinchaser]

slow to load but that's an easy fix, i would break up the text with some images

I have optimized the site now - from average 2.6s loading the homepage down to 0.6s - you can try and tell me how you experience the site now?

Also, I do agree that it is a lot of text without images added and this is being worked on, thanks for the feedback!

[universal4]

Much better numbers from page speed insights both mobile and desktop.

That should help considerably.

Looking at the accessibility section, easy fix for you would be to add an alt or title to the play now buttons.

Rick
Universal4

[Coinchaser]

Much better numbers from page speed insights both mobile and desktop.

That should help considerably.

Rick
Universal4

Thank you for checking and noticing it, Rick! Im not done quite yet, still some tasks that needs optimized


What I did was switching from Apache (which is the most standard server software) over to Litespeed (it beats Apache by 12x approx in benchmark tests) and configured some caching, page performance, CSS/JS minify, Redis object cache + browser + some other minor optimizations which will help with better user experience

Here is an image before and after optimizing with the right settings:

[universal4]

You might want to read more about the "aria-labelledby" attribute to fix the button error.

Rick
Universal4

Google will probably change this again at some point again in the future, but they will wait until many more millions are fixed, then they will change it so they can watch folks scramble.

[wonderpunter]

have you setup litespeed correctly? its taking me a very long time.. cloudflare cache everything with page rules is lightening quick but if geo targeting is a problem, also try wp rocket, right now your site has been laoidng on my browser for 2 minutes.. your page speed scores are good but actual real life loading is painfuly slow.. soemthing is up

[wonderpunter]

ok 2 seconmdfs for your server to respond.. might be a plugin conflict.. what cache plugn(s) are you using? real life laoding its taking me minutes.. it loads vanisehes whaite screen than comes back

[iso2009]

I second that, it responds too slow (time to first byte is around 1400 ms) while it should be less than 1000ms. Mine is around 200ms, but I don't use WP. However, I still think you can manage a ttfb of less than 1000 ms with a proper WP.

Leaving aside the speed insights reports, for me it loads in around 4000ms on a 1gbps connection.

[Coinchaser]

have you setup litespeed correctly? its taking me a very long time.. cloudflare cache everything with page rules is lightening quick but if geo targeting is a problem, also try wp rocket, right now your site has been laoidng on my browser for 2 minutes.. your page speed scores are good but actual real life loading is painfuly slow.. soemthing is up

Hey,

Yes its all setup correctly, but im not finished with optimizing there is still some minor optimizing tasks im working on to get the ttfb lower. There is no need for me to even consider WP Rocket as im using Litespeed for caching which is a much better overall solution - as soon as I get finalized with all these other optimizations you will see a better impact of loading speed and TTFB

Thanks for following up and noticing, much appreciated and its being taken care of! Should be done shortly!

[wonderpunter]

I have litespeed at the server but i found the actual plugin made the site load slower, I spent a long time trying to work out what the problem is. it was the litespeed app so ditched it litspeed still pulls from the server but works quicker without the app.

[Emiliana Rostowicz]

The site has a weak presence on social media, a low text to HTML ratio, and lacks keywords in meta tags, which harms SEO. Replacing Christopher's avatar with a real photo and a short description of their experience would make the platform more credible and boost user trust.