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Through monthly recurring donations from up to 700 individuals, we have equipped 350+ students with Chromebooks, Internet access, educational resources, and our constant online mentorship. Our donors receive monthly transparency reports with details on every cost, student success stories, and our progress. Now we are working to incorporate a 501(c)3 nonprofit in the US and expand operations to the Middle East and Africa by collaborating with partners on the ground.
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Your site overall is really beautiful, but MAN, is it slow. See here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiveinternet.org%2F
Site speed IMO is your most important first impression, because if I can't even load your landing page, I'm going to bounce within about 5 seconds. I would highly recommend working through the suggestions from pagespeed insights above. Love the idea, love your site, but you just need to optimize it!
It's not that slow for me (not as bad as IH, which gets a zero on the same test). But I'm in east Asia and have very fast internet.
The site has five separate images that are nearly a megabyte each. That's likely the problem.
Thanks, @alchemist, Indeed photos are one of the reason
I agree, I left right away to check other pages, just to make sure my internet connection didn't just turn bad.
@efraim Thanks for checking!
Hey @benparsell, Thank so much for the feedback. You're so right! We'll fix it.
Thanks again
This doesn't look like international humanitarian site. Projects described there make it looks like Georgian nationalists site.
Thanks for the feedback @boyanpro. You're right since we are based in Georgia we've started our project here. We are working to expand operations in the middle east and African counties by partnering with the organizations on the ground. Here is our monthly transparency report for July 2019 http://bit.ly/2KgmwmB and you can subscribe to our newsletter, we'll let you know as soon as we expand to other geographies.