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(First, can I add to this thread by replying to the emails? I’m not getting a bounce back, but I’m not sure if I can do that or not)
When I try to pick smaller sizes, the images are blurry. I figured it was because it was stretching the image to fit a window . . . I thought that the theme element would pick the correct thumbnail size to match the size that I was defining in the dropdowns, but I think that must be me picking the actual image . . . I don’t know how to know how big the image area is for each area, so it’s tough to know what size thumbnail to assign to it.
Am I missing something that shows me the size of the window that is designed for the image window?
Per Dream Host, I have installed Fast Velocity Minify, which got the homepage back to the 80’s, but /counseling-austin-tx/ is still in the 50’s-60’s; other inner pages are a little better, but not as good as the homepage.
From my host:
“I am also seeing that the Theme is the one that is taking the most time
in loading from some tests ran on the backend. You can see here on this
screenshot:I think the theme might also be at play, at least in resource management,
not sure if also causing the site to take longer to load. I suggest you
check with the theme devs if there are suggested PHP limits or any other
way to lower the theme hooks. Not only that, but I did notice you have
PHP limits in place on the site. Increasing them could work for the site,
but best to check with the theme first.”Thoughts?
Thanks Mike! I appreciate the advice. When I look at my historical data on my domain and url authority (and serp rankings), the drop predates the updates (I could be remembering that wrong, but the drop happened several years ago…I had gotten everything dialed in and stopped checking…not smart). My SEO folks said some thing about regular updates to blog, but that even with that and a poor backlink profile, I should not have dropped as far as I did (if you google Counseling 78746 (my zip code) I’m not listed at all. I used to be in the top 3 in SERPs and map; however, people with horrid websites with terrible Ux, no backlinks, no blog, confusing layout, inconsistent header tags, and spelling/grammar errors ARE ranked…AND several of them aren’t in my zip code…they’re all the way across town). I get dropping off of page one, even beyond page 3, but to not be ranked at all in my zip code or city isn’t explained by backlinks nor blog or the folks with no backlinks nor blog at all wouldn’t be up on pages 3 and 4.
So that’s the long version backstory of why I’m digging in to everything. I’m wondering if the speed issue on mobile is a symptom of some other technical issue that is the bots don’t like. If there’s garbled code that works, but bloats things, plus any other overly complex stuff, I’m wondering if that plus backlinks and recent blog posts could better explain this … I think I’m going to find some ridiculous technical thing that cascades in to a larger SEO issue, but doesn’t break my site (like a line of code, a freaking semi colon or space somewhere).
Apologies for not updating y’all before I stopped for the night. It took some experimenting, but I got my mobile scores to 70-85, which is ok for now (used to be 95+). I am using my hosts page cache, which somehow integrates with WP super cache, which integrates with Jet Boost. In boost, if I enable the Critical CSS, mobile speed goes to 30’s, but if I disable that and enable the 3 js/css canonicalization etc features, it gets them back to 70-85.
I have no idea what changed. I was in mid tp upper 90’s for quite some time, then all of a sudden, mobile speed tanked.
Re: CORS: I realized that was because I was using private browser. I may have put the wildcard CORS headers in htaccess just in case…I’ll have to check.
I’ll keep working. I’ve been cleaning up old posts grammar etc. but slowed down. Need to get back to that and post new stuff more.
Thx!
JRelated to that last post of mine (above): I have deactivated the WPFC and am trying my Dream Host page caching service, which has gotten me into the mid 70’s for mobile devices.
Do I need to leave the compression settings as minified without merging, or should I switch it to merge and compress css/js?
J
on my performance tab in theme child, the compression/minfied settings keep going to “minified css/js without merging” . . . .I had it set at “Merge and compress css/js” . . . I’m guessing y’all changed that?
This is fine if not merging helps something.
J
I haven’t the foggiest idea if this CORS thing is related to the theme, but when I copy/pasted those error/warnings to dreamhost support, this was their response. . . before I do anything I want to check with y’all so I don’t break something:
“Hello,
Thank you for contacting DreamHost support, my name is Ryan. Neo has
left for the day, but I would be happy to assist.Thank you for providing the errors. So the information you provided would
be related to Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). From the two links, I
do see the links are from external sources.-https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v55bfa2fee65d44688e90c00735ed189a1713218998793.
-https://analytics.google.com/g/collect?v=2&tid=G-C340SLHPCH>m=45je44o0v9130446013za200&_p=1714105001507&gcd=13l3l3l3l1&npa=0&dma=0&cid=251425839.1713672402&ul=en-us&sr=1792×1120&ir=1&pscdl=noapi&_eu=EA&_s=1&sid=1714104991&sct=16&seg=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fgatehealing.com%2F&dr=https%3A%2F%2Fgatehealing.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dwpfastestcacheoptions&dt=Counseling%20In%20Austin%20For%20Individuals%20%26%20Couples%20%7C%20Gate%20Healing%20PLLC&en=page_view&_ee=1&ep.anonymize_ip=true&tfd=8329%E2%80%9D
So those external links did have issues, which are limited due to the
CORS setup. You can enable Cross Origin Resource Sharing on your site
which should help with the issues. For more information, please see the
following:https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037198972-CORS-headers
CORS headers are added to an .htaccess file in your site’s main
directory. View the following article for further details.https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215747598-Setting-headers-with-an-htaccess-file
By setting the desired CORS setting in the .htaccess you can allow those
locations, you can either set the domain itself, or you can set specific
urls. You can try adding those values to see if it does help with the
issues. Some users do need to enable it for their setup, for example if
your images are being uploaded and cached by Jetpack directly as they are
cached and loaded from the Jetpack url and not your domain directly.If you have any other questions or issues please let me know. We are
always happy to help.”here’s a copy paste of the 4 errors and 3 warnings that show up in the web developer tools:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v55bfa2fee65d44688e90c00735ed189a1713218998793. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).The resource at “<URL>” was blocked because content blocking is enabled. 2
None of the “sha512” hashes in the integrity attribute match the content of the subresource. The computed hash is “z4PhNX7vuL3xVChQ1m2AB9Yg5AULVxXcg/SpIdNs6c5H0NE8XYXysP+DGNKHfuwvY7kxvUdBeoGlODJ6+SfaPg==”. gatehealing.com
Some cookies are misusing the recommended “SameSite“ attribute 3
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v55bfa2fee65d44688e90c00735ed189a1713218998793. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).None of the “sha512” hashes in the integrity attribute match the content of the subresource. The computed hash is “z4PhNX7vuL3xVChQ1m2AB9Yg5AULVxXcg/SpIdNs6c5H0NE8XYXysP+DGNKHfuwvY7kxvUdBeoGlODJ6+SfaPg==”. gatehealing.com
Request to access cookie or storage on “https://analytics.google.com/g/collect?v=2&tid=G-C340SLHPCH>m=45je44o0v9130446013za200&_p=1714105001507&gcd=13l3l3l3l1&npa=0&dma=0&cid=251425839.1713672402&ul=en-us&sr=1792×1120&ir=1&pscdl=noapi&_eu=EA&_s=1&sid=1714104991&sct=16&seg=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fgatehealing.com%2F&dr=https%3A%2F%2Fgatehealing.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dwpfastestcacheoptions&dt=Counseling%20In%20Austin%20For%20Individuals%20%26%20Couples%20%7C%20Gate%20Healing%20PLLC&en=page_view&_ee=1&ep.anonymize_ip=true&tfd=8329” was blocked because it came from a tracker and content blocking is enabled.My main concern in getting performance dialed in is that my rankings have tanked for some unidentified reason, and my SEO company cannot seem to identify an issue that would explain the seriousness of the drop (no penalties or manual actions etc). . . I am wondering if my performance issue may be related to another problem on the back end that could be causing google to not like my site. Pagespeed insights says there are problems, even though the actual experience is pretty quick. Another reason I am baffled by this.
If you use the Web Developer Tools in Firefox, you’ll see that there are 4 errors at the bottom. I have no clue what they mean, but I am now wondering if those are related to anything and if they are related to whatever my ranking issue is (I know speed is not the main factor, but I am wondering if it is a symptom of a larger, deeper issue that google won’t just tell me directly).
Images have all been resized, optimized and converted to webp. All images have a bunch of different sizes that were all optimized in the process as well.
One of the Ewww or Easy IO plugin optimizers has a setting where it makes certain that no images are larger than 1920 for either Height or Width.
My host apparently has a caching feature, but there was an error enabling it, so I am waiting to hear back from them on this.
One of the pagespeed insights errors regarding reducing server response time references having a lot of plugins and a theme that may not be well optimized.
I think there may be some weird thing happening where enabling Lazy Load may help the defer off screen images, but it creates issues in other places. Thus my confusion.
I’ll be trying a different caching plugin tomorrow. I’m cross-eyed tonight.
If Lazy Load doesn’t work on your theme and a plugin or custom css has to be used to fix the problem, then I may need to find a different theme. I hate the idea of rebuilding from the ground up, but having to use a bunch of bandaids via plugins and custom code does not seem to be efficient and may be causing part of the problem.
apparently using that plugin still leaves that /counseling-austin-tx/ page in the 60’s for mobile on pagespeedinsights. . . except for this test run where it’s a 49: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-gatehealing-com-counseling-austin-tx/0f6id1jpcj?form_factor=mobile
That plugin only works if I go in on each and every page and post on my site (over 100 posts and 20ish pages) and manually configure it for every single one of them.
The issue I am having is site wide, across all pages…sadly I have realized that it is not just the video fallback images. It’s everything everywhere.
I’m also working with my host to troubleshoot this. I don’t know who to listen to. It’ll take me a bit to pick through the various plugins suggested by each side, and to experiment with the various combinations and permutations of everything.
Also, the code provided only preloads that one image. This mobile speed issue is occurring on all pages across my website.
Dream Host suggested I use Ewww Image Optimization and the companion plugin Easy Image Optimization. All images have allegedly been converted to webp format, and I do see this in the source code, but when I use the inspection tool from developer tools (in firefox) and point at an image, it looks like images are not lazy loaded, and are lazy loaded all on the same line of code.
I’m at a loss.
Does disabling Lazy Load in Enfold Child options disable all of the element boxes that have it enabled? Or do I have to go manually disable it in all sliders/image boxes that have it enabled?
Jon
Ok, on the page in the private box, the fallback image is 56kb. The original image size was 1151×1200, and then the optimizer created scaled images, which I would assume are smaller than the original.
I am having the same issue where this fallback image is the Largest Contentful Paint element. Load and Render delays seem to be the biggest time eaters.
The other time eater listed is Main Thread Work, with Script Evaluation taking up the largest amount of time by itself (though the other 6 times in there add up to more than that).
I must be missing something. I completely re-uploaded all of my images to bring down some file sizes just as a precaution (some were 5MB before compression). Now even the largest are only kb’s.
This is still only on mobile devices. What am I missing about mobile load times? Is there a mobile setting somewhere that I can tweak? I’ve looked through and just don’t see anything that would directly relate to the mobile images served up.
With Enfold > Performance > Compression/merging features turned on, the mobile performance score hovers around 65 (desktop stays around 95). I tried turning them off, then turning on those features in WPFC, the score seems to go down for mobile.
Can you suggest a free compression app for a macbook pro? Should I compress it, then upload it, then let a compression plugin re-compress the compressed engine? Or get rid of the compression plugin?
I think this may mean deleting all of my images then re-uploading them if this is an issue?
Jdid y’all re-disable the Enfold Child compression/merging? No problem if so, I just want to know if I need to turn it back on or not. My homepage performance (no videos) is suffering a bit. . . usually in the upper 90’s, now low 80’s. I can wait if y’all are testing though. Just let me know.
J
They had given me the wrong dns settings for the new staging site. They are correct now, and site should be up.
I’m setting up the staging site at (see private box) . . . my host told me I needed to add some DNS records to get that working, and when I did it looks like it broke my site.
I deleted those DNS records, so it should be up now.
Thank you for letting me know!
JThere are things on this that look like enabling Enfold’s compression/merging should fix. This is still just the mobile site. I don’t know if the “eliminate render blocking resources” is related to the mobile image thing or not . . . but it seems that this should not be a thing?
When I go smaller, it stretches it and makes it look fuzzy. I have a handful of pages that have videos at the top . . . each fall back image is specific to the page.
WP mail smtp requires a subscription to use my microsoft365 mailer. I could not get it to work with gmail api (even though I have successfully used google/gmail api several times before). So I found an smtp plugin that lets me use microsoft365 for free. This works, but I still get the Chinese stuff intermittently.
I’m not even sure all those characters are Chinese. . . google translate only saw 2 words. That’s why I think it is some sort of code. This issue occurs with WP Mail once I got
The pastebin was just a much longer box of gibberish symbols (possibly Chinese and something else).
J
Tried that and this time it did not slow it down, but it did not speed it up either.
Also, this is only on Mobile devices. My desktop performance score on pagespeed insights is 99 (never below 95), so I cannot help but think this is something related to code involved in making this sized for mobile?
