Reddit, More Map Upgrades, Performance, and SEO

What a week!

Reddit

We started the week as the top post on Reddit’s r/InternetIsBeautiful and got over 2,000 upvotes in a 24 hour period!

Unfortunately, the mods deleted the post 🙁 with no reason given.

Here’s the traffic in Google Analytics over that window:


Upgraded Maps

This week, we also added big time map upgrades!

When you click on a place on the map, this will now show the details of the place:

From there, you can quickly add places to “the bucket” and then add all of the places in the bucket to a new day!

Routes have also been improved with estimates and labels:


SEO and Performance Improvements

We’re working on making the stories more performant overall and better performing in SEO.

  • YouTube embed videos are now loaded with lightweight embeds instead which dramatically speed up loading of the pages.
  • Default alt tags are now being generated for each photos using the contextual information about the trip and the days
  • Each page now generates JSON+LD and microdata structured markup to help Google Search with indexing.

The result?

And the structured markup:


Other Upgrades!

Turas.app stories now also feature a print mode!

Setting a start/end time that spans multiple days (perfect for hotel stays!) now correctly renders the start/end time on the different days:

The new quickstart guide designed to help new users get started faster!

We’ve also added the option to set a default currency for select currencies:


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