MiningWorld Russia

Why it matters

The ticket form on /visitor-registration/ is not part of the site itself. It is a widget from the registration provider, dropped into the page’s text as a short block of code, and that code tells the widget which server to talk to. The server it names — wisent-live-api.hyve.ru — no longer exists. The widget still loads, cannot reach anything, and shows a single placeholder line (REGISTRATION_IS_UNAVAILABLE_TEXT) with no fields at all. Anyone who arrives to register for the show sees an empty band where the form should be.

Your Woodex site carries the same widget and it works, because its code points at the provider’s current address, wisent-api.itegroup.online. MiningWorld’s own registration code (257727) answers correctly on that address today, so the fix is one edit: replace the old server address with the new one in the widget code and republish the page. No developer is needed.

It is the only page on the site that carries the widget, so nothing else needs changing.

Where to change it

Strapi → Pages → Visitor Registration → the text block that holds the registration widget code

Why it matters

Each of these can be clicked today, and each lands the reader on a “page not found” screen — or, for the last one, an “access denied” message — instead of what it promises. A dead link costs whatever the click was about to do: a stand enquiry, a look at the show, a technical form an exhibitor needs. Search engines quietly mark a site down for them too.

Five are an address typed slightly differently from the real one: /about-mining-world/, with a hyphen the page does not have, and enquire-to-exhibit for exhibiting-enquiry. Two buttons on the Lead Scanning page point at our internal preview copy of the site, which visitors cannot open. Every replacement address below was opened and checked before it went in the table.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page named below → the button or link in the body

Why it matters

These point at other organisations’ websites, and the pages behind them have since been removed — in one case the whole website has gone. Three of the four are hotel booking buttons on Plan Your Travel, the page a visitor opens when they are ready to spend money on the trip.

One has a known replacement, given below. The three hotel links need a person to find each hotel’s current booking page, or to take the button off.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page named below → the link or button

Why it matters

Three articles have been published twice, at two addresses — the second copy has “-1” on the end. Google sees the same headline twice over, has to guess which to show, and splits whatever credit the article earns between the two.

A fourth article shows what happens when a duplicate is deleted without tidying up. “Important issues of labor protection in the magazine ‘Labor Defense’” has a canonical address set in its SEO settings — a note to Google saying “the real copy of this page is over there” — and it points at the “-1” copy, which has since been removed. Google is told the real article lives at an address that no longer exists, so it drops this one too. Clear that field and the article is back in the running.

For each of the three pairs, keep one and unpublish the other — or, where both are wanted, give each a headline of its own. When you unpublish a copy, check that the surviving article’s Canonical URL field is empty.

Where to change it

Strapi → Articles → the article record

Why it matters

The Media Gallery page lists 19 galleries. Two more — Mining Conference 2024 and Mining Industry 4.0 Award Ceremony — are published and open at their own addresses, but neither the gallery page nor the menu links to them. A visitor browsing the gallery never sees them, and search engines find those two pages only through your sitemap.

The gallery section on that page shows whichever galleries were ticked when it was set up. Either tick the two missing ones in that list, or clear the selection altogether — with nothing selected the section shows every published gallery automatically, and future galleries appear on their own.

Where to change it

Strapi → Pages → Media Gallery → the Media section → Data

Why it matters

None of these breaks anything, but each is visible to visitors or to Google, and each takes a minute to put right.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page named below

Why it matters

The title is the blue clickable line in a Google result and the name on the browser tab. Three pages still carry the label they were built under — Form - Become A Partner, Form - Beyond the surface, Form - Sponsorship Enquiry — which reads as unfinished to a searcher and says nothing about MiningWorld.

The suggested titles below are a starting point; edit them freely.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page record → SEO → Meta Title

Why it matters

The description is the grey text under your link in a Google result. It is the sentence that decides whether somebody clicks you or a competitor, and it is the only part of a search result you write yourself.

28 pages have none, so they fall back to the homepage’s sentence — ten site pages, from About ITE to Terms of Visiting, and fifteen articles. Somebody searching for MiningWorld’s hotels or its sponsorship packages currently reads a line that mentions neither. Another 21 Media Gallery pages do have a description, but it is the single word MiningWorld, which gives a searcher nothing to go on.

The suggested wording below was written from what is on each page. It is a starting point, not a decision about how you want to sound — please read each one before you use it.

Where to change it

Strapi → the page record → SEO → Meta Description

Why it matters

Four in ten images on the site are heavier than 100 kB — 149 MB between them. Every visitor downloads these at full size, including anyone on a phone on mobile data, and Google counts page speed when it decides where to rank you.

Two thirds of the weight is gallery photographs: 539 of the 777 files, 95 MB, sit on the Media Gallery pages, and the Exhibition 2025 gallery alone carries 36 MB — its 99 photos (mnng25_…) weigh 112 to 764 kB each. Our browser check found 40 of them still blank after the page had finished loading; the files are fine, they are simply too heavy to arrive in time. Away from the galleries, Why Exhibit carries 11 MB, including the heaviest single file on the site — a 3.3 MB photograph of excavation machines — and Lead Scanning has four stock photographs of 0.6 to 1.4 MB each.

The site cannot shrink these by itself, so this is a re-upload in the Media Library rather than anything a developer can do. A free tool such as tinypng.com or squoosh.app does it well: aim for under about 200 kB for a large photograph, 300 kB for a gallery photo, and much less for a logo.

Where to change it

Strapi → Media Library → replace the file with a compressed version

Why it matters

Your buttons — Exhibit and Register in the header, and the enquiry buttons in the page sections — use white text on the MiningWorld orange, and so do a few highlighted figures and headings. Measured the way accessibility guidelines measure it, that pairing scores 2.6 to 1 against a recommended minimum of 4.5 to 1: readable for most people, hard for anyone with low vision or a phone screen in sunlight, and a fail in any accessibility audit a large exhibitor or public body might run before partnering.

Nothing here is broken, and the site can stay as it is. But the fix is cheap if you want it: black text on the same orange scores 8 to 1 and keeps the brand colour exactly as it is; a darker shade of the orange, used only for buttons and small text, also passes; or you leave it, as a brand decision.

Where to change it

Tell us which option you prefer — the change itself is ours to make