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Should my class schedule be a PDF?

Updated Sept 2026·3 min read·By MatGrowth
Short answer

No. Unreadable on phones, invisible to crawlers. Your most-visited page should be HTML.

Why PDFs fail

The short answer is the extractable part. PDFs pinch on phones, hide from crawlers, and turn your most-visited page into a download nobody finishes.

What to build instead

Websites is usually the constraint, not design taste. Put the schedule in HTML so parents can skim it and engines can quote it. If you want the number run against your gym, that’s the teardown.

Where we sit

We publish the number first, then the caveats. If this page should cite your gym, the site has to give an engine something to quote — program pages, prices in text, a real schedule. How we build that.

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