NitroPack vs. Siteimprove

NitroPack shines on Wordpress sites that want to improve user experience through speed. It is also great for improving woocommerce page load.

If I had to speculate on where it would not be greatly useful it would be a small wordpress site with no e-commerce. There are enough free caching plugins that can help a general site, but if you need that extra boast of performance this is a great plugin.

Incentivized

Siteimprove works well for managing the health and performance of your customer-facing sites in terms of performance, digital experience, and accessibility. It also helps to define policies to proactively avoid experience breaks or issues for customers before they occur. It can improve by providing more options to configure policies for large sites with thousands of pages.

Incentivized

• Easy Installation
• Website Caching
• Woocommerce Ecommerce Caching
• Customer Service
• Image optimization

Incentivized

• User-friendly customisable dashboards, easy to make a dashboard from a template, or create your own, and add in whichever 'widgets' are relevant for what you are looking at
• Flagging words to review, allowing users to check and confirm if the word is 'accepted' or is a misspelling

Incentivized

• I don't like that there are different navigation paths to go from point A to point B. When I want to navigate to a specific place, I have more than one way to get there, which means I have to make a decision about how I want to there and I'd rather the designer make that design based on what would be most efficient for me.

Tool has undergone numerous changes, both to function and UX/CX. Makes it less than user friendly at times. But on the other hand, that does indicate a willingness to improve the product in a continual manner - which they've done nearly year after year - but it's always a case of who moved my cheese with each new iteration.

I've used support often and it has been responsive, thorough and considerate of our needs. I can get a tech right away, they understand the issue, and work with us to resolve it. Often the problem is with the site we are trying to scan, sometimes it is with their product. I appreciate that they go beyond support into continually helping us implement SiteImprove in more places with 3rd party integration.

Although they are competitors NitroPack works well with Cloudflare. I use the Cloudflare add on from Cloudways. NitroPack has some specific instructions to work with Cloudflare and with Cloudways caching, but I have found no issues using all three services for multi-layer caching and CDN.

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We have used or tested other tools that get installed on a computer or that are hosted online, but none of them offer the features that come with Siteimprove. TotalValidator Pro will check your site for accessibility issues, but it is a manual check and there is no historical reporting. I can;t remember the names of the other online solutions, but even if they offered similar features as Siteimprove, they were all very expensive .

Incentivized

• My search engine referrals have increased by 10-15%
• My sales conversions have increased 20%
• My page speed has drastically increased especially on mobile
• My Google Core Web Vitals improved and passed most tests

Incentivized

• Siteimprove has helped bring our accessibility scores up from middling to near-perfect.
• Siteimprove has helped reduce our broken links, style violations and misspellings.
• Siteimprove's heatmaps have helped us make the case for enforcing best practices on the website among key stakeholders.

Incentivized