Thank you!

I I tried it with no luck.
I finally decided to switch back to WP Rocket, and I think it solved my problem.
WP Rocket uses “remove unused CSS” and “Load Java Script deferred” to avoid render-blocking delays and I think it’s working better than consolidating files or minifications.
I still wonder if Avia layout builder offers too many functions. I wish if there was a layout builder “lite,” which only has minimum options.

Anyway thank you for your insights. This case can be closed now.

OK thank you. You can close this case now.

Thanks Ismael,

I am not savvy enough so bear with me. I installed Code Snippets plug-in so that I can add the code.

Do I need
add_filter( string $hook_name, callable $callback, int $priority = 10, int $accepted_args = 1 )
before the strings you gave? (If so, I don’t know how to set the parameter. Could you let me know?)

Do I also need <?php and ?> ?

Thanks!

That’s exactly my problem. I get good scores on Page Speed test or GT Metrix. Almost 100%. HOWEVER, Google Search Console keeps saying it takes more than 4s to load my pages. All of them, not only image-heavy pages etc. It’s abysmal (see the links below). GSC community experts say page speed tests etc. are lab tests, and cannot predict real user experience. GSC is saying real user experience for my web is bad. (your experience seems to be good, but apparently GSC doesn’t think so)

Vikinguard is a real user experience plugin. I copy pasted Viginguard results and GCS community replies etc. in the above message. Did you see them and do you have any suggestions? If “it loads fast on my computer” is only thing you can suggest, unfortunately I will have to try other themes. Especially as Vikinguard says it takes the longest time to load html for the website and the other article says Enfold is the second slowest WP theme…Of course your theme may not be the problem, but as I cannot find anything else right now, all I can do is to change theme unless you have any suggestions to improve the situation.

I thought I sent credential, but it doesn’t look like it went through… let me send it again. Please do it for me!

Thanks!

Full slider still doesn’t show on Android my screen although the desktop issue has been resolved.
I also found that GT Metrix finds below resources (I copied only a few, but the list was much longer) as render-blocking (high impact).
Most of them were avia-layout. Transfer size up to 12.8KB, download time up to 1.2s. Do you guys offer paid services to improve those issues?

https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/avia-base.min.css
https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/css/avia-layout.min.css
https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/audio-player/avia-module-audioplayer.min.css
https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/blog/avia-module-blog.min.css
https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/postslider/avia-module-postslider.min.css
https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/buttons/avia-module-button.min.css
https://www.interactiongreen.com/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/contact/avia-module-contact.min.css

Again, for some reason I didn’t get the notification for your reply. Sorry for the late reply.
In the meantime, I updated the theme to ver 5.8.1, and the situation got worse using Avia Layout Builder.
1) the full slider is no longer loading on desktop computer using “full widths easy slider.”
2) the pictures using “gallery” aren’t loading properly. Under animation, you have an option to load upon page load or scroll. I use upon page load usually, but they no longer load upon page load.

Both were working perfect at least from desktop computer.

The full slider problem looks exactly the same for mobile devices.

Oh no, I just realize that my reply to your last message wasn’t uploaded. Sorry!

Anyway I have implemented multiple things, and my GT Metrix score improve to B. The only red flag is CLS (0.44s).

I have been having issue with full slider using Avia Layout Builder, so I would like to fix it now in case if it’s affecting my CLS time.
I use full slider at the top of the page very often.

It load with no problem from desktop, but it doesn’t work if you access from a phone. I do not have a tablet so I don’t know how it works from tablets. But as far as smart phones, it just shows a blank rectangular space.

How can I solve it? Please let me know!

I am just trying to explain what’s going on.

In your attachment, this user says “every page” faced crawl anomaly,

In my case, crawl anomaly occurs almost exclusively on pages with sliders, galleries, videos, thumbnails and things like that. Those pages are also considered “text too small to read, & clickable elements too close together.” You may say they are two different issues, but they are affecting the same pages. It’s hard to believe that it’s just a coincidence, especially when the problem goes away after I remove media elements.

Anyway, I am just trying to let you know what I am experiencing. I am not complaining to you. So please don’t be so defensive. I am not a technical savvy user AT ALL. I just want to focus on writing, but feel forced to do something to fix Google issues as the number of visitors are now less than half compare to pre-COIVD, pre-mobile crawling era (6 months ago). My web is an abysmal situation.

See how I rarely opened cases over the last few years? Everything was working fine. Now I am suddenly struggling in my battle against Google bots.

Please close the case.

OK I got it.

>So what do you mean by “incompatible with Google bots”?

This is what I have been talking about from the get-go. Maybe you can re-read my first thread. My pages look fine when you access them from your mobile device, and they pass mobile-friendly test. But in order for my pages to be indexed by Google, they need to pass the test by Google bots that actually crawl pages (at least that’s my understanding). When I “live test” my pages, Google bots return errors: 1) text too small to read, 2) clickable elements too close together.

In actual pages, texts are not too small and clickable elements are not too close. (As we have been seeing, everything looks just fine!) But when I check how bots see my pages, the menu bar is displayed as a list of texts with hyperlink. Which are kind of close to each other. If I can attach a file, I can send the screenshot how Google bots see my pages.

As a result, Google decides not index those pages.

After you took care of my setting and disabled SG Optimizer, many pages no longer showed 1) text too small to read, 2) clickable elements too close together, and became indexable. However, some still showed the same error. When I removed sliders, gallery and video function from those pages, the error messages finally disappeared and they became indexable.

From the get-go, this issue had nothing to do with how my pages are displayed in reality. It’s been the Google indexing problem. But it’s a huge issue, you know. If Google refuses to index a page, it virtually becomes non-existent, so there’s no point making it look nice….

Thanks, so I added the code at the end of the function.php. I thought I did it correct, and actually Google bots started to recognize some of the troubled pages as “indexable” after I did it. But it wasn’t the end of the story…some other pages that were totally fine before the change suddenly became non live text-able (hence non index-able). According to GSC, it means “…cannot be shown in a live test, as these states are only shown when the user submitted the page using a sitemap, and sitemap information is not available in a live test.”

So I deleted the code.

Maybe you could try to add it in case I did something wrong? Thanks.

Also, Google bots does not like anything fancy that Avia builder provides: I stopped using slider, gallery, video etc. I am even refraining from using thumbnails because it often causes size problem with GSC. I am making new pages using almost text only. It should not how it’s supposed be, right?