Anybody experience with speeding up loading time for visitors from China mainland?
-
I made some speed tests and noticed that our website loads 10 times slower for visitors from China mainland.
Did anybody have experience with speeding up loading time for visitors from China?We operate the Chinese version of our website in a subdirectory and we have no interest in registering a company in China in order to get the ICP number.
Currently using cloudflare who should have a node in HK and serving static content via rackspace.Does disabling google analytics and facebook widgets really make a difference? (ideally would like to avoid this)
-
Hi Joe, thanks. I had the same thoughts and already talked to them. It is only offered to enterprise clients of cloudflare and requires an ICP number which in turn requires a company located in China.
-
I don't have personal experience optimizing for the Chinese market, but I do have experience with Cloudflare. They recently announced a partnership with Baidu to tackle this problem regarding the Great Firewall.
"The combined network also improves the viewing experience for visitors inside and outside of China. After enabling the China network, visitors to CloudFlare sites from within China are served from Baidu’s network of data centers, while visitors from outside of China continue to be served from the CloudFlare network. The result is a decrease in application latency of greater than 200 milliseconds for China traffic."
Would definitely check out https://www.cloudflare.com/china and talk to their support team about solutions to your load time, that's the best be in my opinion.
-
thanks a lot. Makes sense.
Just in our case a bit difficult to implement since all our language versions are based on same template and it would not be worth the effort to make a complete new design/CSS/javascript for the Chinese web version. Site is already mobile optimized.
Anybody has experience with fast and affordable caching services from HongKong?
-
This may not be you, but simply due to what has been called "The great firewall of china" that slows things down. This is an article that looked at a bunch of sites that were non-Chinese companies that hosted outside of the mainland and did a lot of business in China.
https://www.internetretailer.com/2014/08/14/foreign-retail-web-sites-load-slowly-china
Catchpoint says sites hosted outside of China often load slowly, because they are slowed by the so-called Great Firewall of China. For example, sites with the .cn domain—which are almost always hosted within China—typically are more than twice as fast as sites with .com in their domain names, Catchpoint says.
Regardless, I would not disable GA as you need that data to improve and understand your site traffic. Facebook widgets can slow you down, but you have to determine if they help with your sales or not. Your best bet is to try and design your site to be as simple as possible. Cut down on all the Javascript menus etc. Design your site for a mobile experience, then expand out from there. Trim down your CSS file as much as possible. Don't use typekit or other services with custom fonts. Get lean and mean.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Web Site Migration - Time to Google indexing
Soon we will do a website migration .com.br to .com/pt-br. Wi will do this migration when we have with lower traffic. Trying to follow Google Guidelines, applying the 301 redirect, sitemap etc... I would like to know, how long time the Google generally will use to transfering the relevance of .com.br to .com/pt-br/ using redirect 301?
International SEO | | mobic0 -
Shall I automatically redirect international visitors from www.domain.com to e.g. www.domain.com/es? What is best SEO practice?
We have chosen the one domain approach with our international site having different language versions in subdirectory of main domain:
International SEO | | lcourse
www.domain.com/es
www.domain.com/it
etc. What is SEO-wise best practice for implementing international index pages. I see following options: entering www.domain.com will display without redirection the index page in language of user (e.g based on IP or browser) in www.domain.com
Example: www.booking.com entering www.domain.com will always show English index page.
Additionally one may display a message in the header if IP from other country with link to other language version.
Example: www.apple.com entering www.domain.com will always redirect automatically to country specific subdirectory based on IP
Example: www.samsung.com Any thoughts/suggestions on what may be best solution from a SEO perspective? For a user I believe options 1) & 3) are preferable.0 -
Google Webmaster Tools - Geographic target - Time till change
One of my clients is targeting UK customers. They have UK IP address. I then noticed that they had their Geographic target set to "Target users in: United States". I advised them to change this. Anyone know: How this could have been set, the client says they didn't do it? How long will it take for Google to see this has been changed? Thanks in advance. Justin
International SEO | | GrouchyKids0 -
Intentional redirect for international visitors to a website
We are doing PPC for a new client, and using Clicktale to improve conversion rates. However, Clicktale won't work because the client does not want international visitors looking at their website (competitive reasons! - yeah don't get me started...). They have a redirect on for all international visitors which points to a "coming soon..." page Are there any SEO implications on traffic in their own country (they currently do rank for terms)? I'd like to go back with a strong case for them removing any international redirect. Thank You
International SEO | | CleverClicks0 -
Anyone have experience using .asia TLD?
We are the top US supplier of a very high end French made product. The largest market for their products is Japan. We would like to target Japanese buyers that travel (for business or pleasure) to the West Coast (we're in SF) for personalized US delivery. I have been reading all related SEOmoz posts for International SEO. But looking to the future there could be other Asian opportunities, so a .asia domain has appeal (as does the $6 per year cost vs. $99 for a .jp). Is this TLD credible (both to potential customers and Yahoo Japan)? THX
International SEO | | Chasmo1 -
Worldwide CDN with mainland China support.
Hello Mozers, Can you please recommend me Content Delivery Network (CDN) working both for mainland China and worldwide regions? Many people suggest ChinaCache which provide services only for Asian countries. But for me will be preferable to find one ultimate worldwide solution. Any thoughts will be appreciated. Thanks.
International SEO | | de4e0 -
Webmaster Tools crawl error shows Porn from China.
I have an ongoing issue with porn showing up in my crawl error report from Google Webmaster Tools. They show up like so… _ ads/adtrack.asp?id=monsterselfemp&type=2&redir=//deuxmalio.cn/m.php/BLACK-GRANNY-VIDS-612_ Domain name not found 0008-05-11 I have no idea what deuxmalio.cn is, and it doesn't show up in search. Would this negatively impact my rankings and what can I do about this? I receive A LOT of these, most of which I cannot repeat in this forum.
International SEO | | BeTheBoss0 -
Do non-english(localized) URLs help Local SEO and user experience?
Hi Everyone, This question is about URL best practice for multilingual websites. We have www.example.com in English and we are building the exact replica of English site in German www.example.de. On the Geman site, we are considering to translate some portions of the URLs for example last folder and file name as seen below: example.de/folder1-in-english/folder2-in-english/folder3-in-german/filename-in-german.html Is this a good idea? Will this help SEO and user experience both? or the mixed languagues in URL will confuse the users? Google guidelines say that this should be ok. Would love to get feedback from SEOMOZ community! Thanks, Supriya.
International SEO | | Amjath0