{"id":1942,"date":"2021-06-09T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:44:46","slug":"the-truth-behind-a-good-g-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/the-truth-behind-a-good-g-t\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Behind a Good G.T."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were forwarded an interesting proclamation from the garrulous folks at AccomProperties this week stating rather spuriously their website was achieving <em>\u201crecord sales activity\u201d<\/em>, and conflating this with a misleading side-by-side graphic of our site which apparently <em>&#8220;speaks for itself&#8221;<\/em>. They had of course rated themselves A and us F based on a mysterious \u201cG.T. Metrix\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"762\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image.png 762w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-420x211.png 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><figcaption>Shots Fired! Ho boy&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Now look, I love a good Gin &amp; Tonic as much as the next guy, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s a great metrix on a hot summer\u2019s day (keeps the malaria away after all) but I wouldn\u2019t be measuring my website\u2019s performance as an effective marketing portal on a G.T. Metrix, and neither should anyone else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1968\" width=\"290\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-1.png 928w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-1-768x771.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-1-420x422.png 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><figcaption>TheOnsiteManager is ranked as the First AND second organic listing on Google for Management Rights<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t like getting into the nitty gritty of this stuff but when someone makes misleading claims about our company, directly to our clients, in an effort to bolster their ailing magazine publication, I feel a burning need to respond with the truth, so here\u2019s the truth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>TheOnsiteManager <strong>outperforms<\/strong> AccomProperties on every single metric <strong><em>that matters<\/em><\/strong>:<\/li><li>TheOnsiteManager <strong>outperforms<\/strong> them on search engines (We are first and second vs second last on the first page of Google for the organic search &#8216;Management Rights&#8217;);<\/li><li>TheOnsiteManager <strong>outperforms<\/strong> them on traffic with up to 40,000 visits per month to our site;<\/li><li>TheOnsiteManager <strong>outperforms<\/strong> them on sales activity: they boasted that they\u2019d set a \u201cnew record\u201d recently with 60 sales enquiries over a 2 day period. In the last fortnight our peak 2 day period was 240 sales enquiries &#8211; 360% better sales performance (and that\u2019s just in the last fortnight!);<\/li><li>TheOnsiteManager lists around 3 times as many management rights as them, in fact we essentially have all of the management rights listings, with 70% of our MR brokers on exclusive contracts;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That\u2019s the <strong>truth<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh and while we&#8217;re on the subject of metrics&#8230; we attempted to replicate AccomProperties reported results from GTMetrix&#8230; and here&#8217;s what we *actually* scored:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-3-1024x466.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-3-1024x466.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-3-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-3-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-3-420x191.png 420w, https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image-3.png 1311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Our results in GTMetrix told quite a different story to what AccomProperties are claiming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re putting something very fishy in their Gin &amp; Tonic Metrix over there at AccomProperties HQ, and it leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/accom.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Liar liar, pants on fire.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>AccomProperties took umbrage the last time I corrected some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/accomproperties-im-actually-impressed-but-not-in-a-good-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">untruthful claims<\/a> they made to our clients as <em>&#8216;The Leading Management Rights Portal for ALL the Listings&#8217;<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They accused us of <em>\u201cputting other providers down\u201d<\/em> by merely correcting this shameless untruth. The irony of protesting being punched down upon while simultaneously declaring oneself a&nbsp; \u201cLeader\u201d is a paradox I\u2019ll leave you to ponder ;). Unfortunately it seems the record must be set straight once again. In the meantime, who\u2019s up for a fresh G.T.? <br>&#8230;Cheers Everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were forwarded an interesting proclamation from the garrulous folks at AccomProperties this week stating rather spuriously their website was achieving \u201crecord sales activity\u201d, and conflating this with a misleading side-by-side graphic of our site which apparently &#8220;speaks for itself&#8221;. They had of course rated themselves A and us F based on a mysterious \u201cG.T. Metrix\u201d&#8230; Now look, I love a good Gin &amp; Tonic as much as the next guy, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s a great metrix on a hot summer\u2019s day (keeps the malaria away after all) but I wouldn\u2019t be measuring my website\u2019s performance as an effective marketing portal on a G.T.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/the-truth-behind-a-good-g-t\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}