Tapio Kauranen

Revamp of Finland’s Most Popular Joke Site, Parasvitsi.com

I launched parasvitsi.com in 2015 to put SEO techniques to the test in the real world.

The experiments paid off — within a year daily sessions climbed from 28 to over a thousand

In December 2017 the site peaked at 1,827 sessions in a single day.

Parasvitsi.com's growth in visitors: from about 28 sessions a day in January 2015 to about 1,300 in December 2017

In 2018 I started rebuilding the site. The old version used a heavy, clunky WordPress theme. I recreated a nearly identical design on the Foundationpress starter theme, cutting load times to a tenth of what they were before. I also added joke submissions and voting as new features.

The Suomen paras vitsi (Finland's best joke) site, parasvitsi.com, on a smartphone, showing the most commented jokes

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