Just migrated the main website from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages

Hi everyone!

Just migrated this morning the main website (https://gladysassistant.com/) from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages.

In the past months, there was some downtime on Netlify, and performance was not that great.

Cloudflare Pages is blazing fast:

  • It has 250 PoP around the globe, being 50ms from 95% of all internet users. The website is deployed on all datacenters by default, without anything to do.
  • The free plan offers unlimited bandwidth

So far I’m pretty happy with the results, and I hope you’ll notice the difference :slight_smile:

Let me know how it feels on your end!

Still on the website, I’m doing some work on the SEO part so we can rank better on Google & get more traffic = more users :slight_smile:

Excellent SEO score on ahref now :sunglasses:

Still some little fixes to do (a few broken links, not translated pages)

On my side it’s lightning fast :zap::zap:!

Hello @pierre-gilles,

Now that I’ve moved and I’m in the process of setting everything back up, I’m going to register on Gladys Plus.

However, on the website I’m surprised not to see the Gladys Plus solution on the first page!
You have to click on « Install » go to the bottom of the menu and click on « Gladys Plus » then « Intro ».
And even then because I knew it existed.
I think you should highlight it more.

This is just my opinion.

Note: Sorry for non-French people here :sweat_smile:

Awesome :sunglasses: Thanks for your support!

Good question, that was the case initially, and I was of the same opinion as you @Tlse-vins (there was a « Gladys Plus » tab in the top bar)

But I realized that for people arriving on the site for the first time, it created confusion:

  • Is the Gladys product (the open-source software) really free?
  • Is Gladys really a community product, or is it actually a commercial SaaS company that also does a bit of open-source on the side?

This confusion caused some newcomers to leave the site directly in « I’m not interested in this kind of product » mode.

However, the first goal of the site is to convert visitors into Gladys users, and a simple bad impression from newcomers makes us lose people who wouldn’t have paid for Gladys Plus anyway, as they first need to understand what Gladys is, install it at their place, configure their instance, etc…

The « paid » part only comes much later in the lifecycle of a user; it’s only confirmed Gladys users who decide to switch to Gladys Plus.

And on the Gladys product side, the conversion rate from « Gladys User » to « Paying Gladys Plus Contributor » is rather good. Out of approximately 250-350 Gladys instances in recent months, 35-40 are instances with paid Gladys Plus (Source), which gives a conversion rate of around 10-15%, which is a rather good freemium/paying conversion rate.

If I wanted to improve this conversion even further (but it’s not my goal, as it’s already good), I would work more on the Gladys product, not on the site, which must attract new users.

Hence my current strategy: rather than increasing the free-to-paying conversion, my goal is to increase the number of users at the entry point.

We can see the conversion funnel in this way:

1000 visitors to the site → 20 Gladys installations → 2 paying users

So if I want to multiply by 10 the number of paying contributors, I need to:

  • Increase the number of visitors to the site (All my recent efforts: articles on third-party sites, YouTube videos on external channels, content, etc…). Let’s say make it x5.
  • Improve the « site visitor → Gladys installation » conversion (My recent efforts too: more tutorials on the site, video tutorials on YouTube, « Gladys at your place » series). Let’s say make it x2

We arrive at the following funnel:

10,000 visitors to the site → 400 Gladys installations → 40 paying users

(It’s very simplistic, but that’s the idea)

I hope you understand the strategy better :slight_smile:

Ah, I remember and I was surprised not to have a direct link to Gladys Plus anymore.
I understand your point of view which is based on the long term.

This is my case, it’s been exactly 2 years since I discovered Gladys, I’m not yet a confirmed user but I’m improving.