Hi Rikard,

I cleared the cache using WP-Optimize as suggested, but it hasn’t changed anything. As a data point, the site shows fine on desktop. Nothing about the layout has changed. On mobile, it’s as if there is no active design or theme at all. Trouble is, about 95% of my traffic is on mobile. I’ll provide info for further assistance. Thanks.

Hi Mike,

Not sure how to attach a screenshot on here. Your screenshot looks correct, but that looks like the desktop version. It’s the mobile version where I’m having issues. There’s two much white space between the logo/30 years text and the gray box. I’ve cleared the browser cache several times.

Hi Rikard.
About this topic your team has been very fast and effective.
But I’ve another topic still open without a solution.

Could you be so kind to take a look, please?

thank you, please close the topic

What I meant is “Product slider”, that is located in “Avia builder ” -> Plugins addons -> Product slider. The integrated filter is useful to define which products are to be displayed, but I was unsuccesfully trying to sort these filtered data by a custom meta, which I have availble for my products (e.g. date).
Anyway, if this not useful for anyone else, we can close the topic, as I have approached this by a small plugin which I based on swiper.js which I can fully control.

Following on from this

I can 100% confirm this was the cause of our server issues.

Essentially ALL Enfold websites with WooCommerce installed will gradually use up the ram and see mysql memory usage rise until the server crashes.

The bots getting stuck crawling all of the ?avia_extended_shop_select=yes queries includes:
Even with the rel-nofollow:
Bing bot
Google bot
A majority of major search engines
AI crawlers – New aggressive bots that ignore all instructions

See screenshot of the before and after. Our Ram use fell from almost 90GB of ram used to 8GB used on average.
Physical Ram usage screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tw8p399gfdr9cclorc5j9/ramuse-screenshot.PNG?rlkey=d9ty4xvui4w3m2ycb9b9ez94s&st=28aameqn&dl=0
Mysql memory usage screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iixhdd5vpe7253tbavbxf/mysql-memory-usage.PNG?rlkey=15061shf0haiu3d36cdy0be3t&st=ep9fncx5&dl=0

SOLUTION
I propose that Enfold removes the custom sort by options and reinstates the default Woocommerce ones.
The defaults use form fields and JS so there are no a href links in the default woo sort by dropdown. Bots cannot follow these links because there are no urls in the HTML.

In your child theme functions.php add the following to remove the enfold filters and reinstate the woo ones.

// remove the enfold sort by filters
function avia_woocommerce_frontend_search_params()
{
   return;
}
// reinstate the woo default sort by filters
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'woocommerce_catalog_ordering', 20 );

Add the following CSS to quick CSS and tweak depending on your sidebar position:

.sort-param-count {
display:none;
}
.product-sorting {
padding-top:0px;
}
div .product-sorting ul, div .product-sorting li {
font-size: 16px;
}
div .product-sorting ul {
width: 200px;
}
.main_color .sort-param a {
    color: #000000;
}
.sort-param-sort a, ul.sort-param-order {
border: 1px;
border-color: #969696;
border-style: solid;
}
@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
    .responsive #top .woocommerce-ordering {
        position: relative;
        float: left;
        clear: both;
        margin: 0;
        padding-bottom: 25px;
        padding-top: 15px;
        top: 0px;
    }
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
    .responsive #top .woocommerce-ordering {
        position: relative;
        float: left;
        clear: both;
        margin: 0;
        padding-bottom: 25px;
        padding-top: 15px;
        top: 0px;
    }
}
#top.woocommerce-page .woocommerce-ordering select {
width: 100%;
font-size:16px;
}

Install the Redirection Plugin:

Add the following RegEX expression to redirect the queries so that the URL redirects BEFORE the query runs on the DB

Source URL: ^/(.*?)/\?avia_extended_shop_select=.*
Enable: Ignore Case, Regex and Ignore Slash
Target URL: /$1/
Hit Save
This will redirect any attempt to crawl the enfold filters back to the current category

It works!
Thanks for your time Guenni007.
About Mike’s proposal “A color section added padding/margin to the footer page, or you can try adding the 3 columns without a color section in your footer page.”
Footer height remains an issue.

Using only widgets consisting of 3 lines of text and a title, there is a huge amount of empty space both above and below.
https://img.savvyify.com/image/image.97nP6

if I use a page by replacing the footer and socket, the space at the top is just right, but there is too much unused space below.
A footer like this is not aesthetically pleasing.
https://img.savvyify.com/image/image.97BAh

The topic can be closed, thanks!

You can close this topic. Thank you for investigating it for me.