LCP Error in Google Search Console

Hi @cookgirl26,

Thanks for getting in touch!

It looks like the biggest LCP factors listed are related primarily to third party javascript that’s delaying the loading of the largest contentful paint element. Since you’re already using a performance/optimization plugin, you may have the option to defer the loading of more of your assets…it may take some testing, but if you defer as much as you can without anything breaking or looking rough, it should help this a bit. Also may be worth using WebP for your images, since they’ll take less time to load and can improve the metrics some. One of the reasons the score on there is so much worse on mobile is that they throttle the processing and network somewhat in an attempt to mimic low-mid tier devices and less-than-ideal cell service.

Your desktop scores are incredible though, really nice work!

Thanks so much for getting back to me Steven. The web core vitals test is still failing. I changed the images to webp format, but it really hasn’t had much of an impact on my score.

The largest contentful paint image (it keeps showing the featured image) is the main issue here I believe. It keeps loading at around 4 seconds, which is way too long.

*I have the css and javascript being minified through the plug-in I’m using, but it’s not really helping my web vital scores. I don’t know what other plug-in or whatever to use at this point*

Thank you so much for your assistance though..

Gotcha…makes sense that it hasn’t helped the score at all, PageSpeed Insights isn’t seeing WebP images- it looks like the featured image/thumbnail for each post is still loading a JPG image instead of WebP for some reason.

You may also like to check on GTmetrix- it shows a really helpful timeline of when each element is loaded, much more detailed and can be pretty useful:
https://gtmetrix.com/

Minifying is great, but if there’s any of it that you’re able to defer and load in the footer instead of the head of the page, that will help to load the image sooner since it won’t have to wait on as much other stuff to load before it can begin.

You may also have some luck getting in touch with the author of the performance plugin you’re using…since this is their area of expertise, they may have some more specific recommendations for using their plugin most effectively.

Best of luck either way! ??

Thank you so much for your assistance Steven. It still hasn’t been resolved on my end yet, but you’ve helped so much. Thank you!

Sure thing! Looks like you’re making progress though…up to an incredible 97 on desktop and it’s increased from upper 20s and low 30s last time I looked to 58 when I checked it just now. Nice work!

Thank you so much!