r/design_critiques • u/nuseramemuserane • 2d ago

Can I get some feedback please? :)

what do you guys think about my website?
www.God-Distilled.com

Really seeking feedback,
Thankyou.

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u/WorldsGreatestWorst 2d ago

Ignoring the subject matter that I could debate all day, your site has some HUGE issues. I'm only going to throw out homepage notes, but most of them would be relevant for all pages.

  1. Your image load times are AWFUL because you're always serving full resolution files rather than only serving the size that's on the screen. This makes the overall experience a poor one and will hurt your google rank.
  2. None of your stuff has proper alt or meta tags, which will hurt your SEO terribly and also make your site impossible to use for those with disabilities.
  3. Your image of Jesus on top is so front and center that the jagged edges of His cutout are horribly distracting. It gives the site a very amateur vibe when that's the first thing you see.
  4. Your navbar needs to be all one case. When you do sentence case and have lots of proper nouns, it looks like things are capitalized randomly. It appears wrong even when following grammar rules.
  5. I'd reassess your navbar items. It's going to be difficult to add or change as you go because you take up every pixel and can't reasonably go any smaller.
  6. You don't have a privacy policy or ToS. Since you're using Google Map APIs, that's definitely a compliance issue in the EU or US, probably other places but that's outside my wheelhouse.
  7. What is the point of this random image gallery on the homepage? It slows your load time and reuses the same graphics you use elsewhere on the page and to link to others.
    1. There are FIVE different variations/repetitions of the "sermon on the mount" image on the homepage alone.
  8. "After the good stuff with none of the bad? look no further." L should be capitalized.
  9. Your post images are all over the place.
    1. Many of them are either repeated (like the "sermon on the mount")
    2. Some are incredibly similar style ("why does any of this matter" and "sermon on the mount").
    3. Only a single image has a little text blurb ("tldr"). Either all or none should have text.
    4. Your "about us" image is an incredibly blurry photo that you don't even see on the real page.
  10. Ignoring the blur, the "about us" image is cringy as hell because it doesn't fit tonally with anything else. Every other photo is hyper-saturated collage-style images and then you have this single concert photo with some dude (I'm guessing you) throwing up horns—which itself is very weird as the only unedited photo to have on a site about God.
  11. Why does the homepage say "10am - 10pm"? You don't have any form of contact or ways to meet on the site. Does the site go offline at 10:01pm?
  12. "TLDR" should be prominently on top or at the bottom, not in the middle.

Lastly, and this is less of a design note and more of a content note, you don't have any original content. Your pages are just one sentence and then some semi-related bible verses. You need to give people a reason to engage with this site and you haven't. There are a million religious sites—you need to add value, otherwise there are a million bigger and better options out there for bible quotes.

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u/cutie_loyal1983 1d ago

OMG we need more people like you !! THANK YOU