Very serious drop by Google because CLS problems

  • Dear David, Leo, and Ejcabquina,

    After reading your support suggestion and trying to solve my CLS problem for weeks, Google finally dropped my site on the 1st of July, so I did not have any chance but to write you. Thank you so much in advance for any of your suggestions!

    My site suffers from CLS issues even after changing all the advice I found on your support forums. Especially on mobile devices, but also some bad results on desktop. It is also weird that the CLS result is changing from test to test; however, none of the cached files are changed.

    There are different results for the main page, the posts like https://www.drivingdirectionsandmaps.com/greenland-google-map/ or the tags https://www.drivingdirectionsandmaps.com/tag/china/ and the worst are that Google shows more and more bad quality pages in its webmaster tools, however, when I test it on Page speed insights, it is not (always) that bad.

    Do you see anything wrong? I’d be extremely grateful for your kind support!

    Thank you so much in advance!

    Gabor

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hi there,

    i ran some mobile performance tests in chrome developers tools. For the first link ( a single post ) the one element causing CLS is the social sharing icons. These aren’t being loaded initially – looks like they are being deferred and don’t load until after the user interacts with the page ( eg. scroll ).

    You can try adding this CSS to reserve some space for them:

    .at-above-post.addthis_tool {
    min-height: 35px;
}

    Not seeing any issue on the Archive pages.

    Thread Starter tesztmester

    (@tesztmester)

    Dear David,

    Huge thank you for your fast reply! I tried to implement the CSS you sent me, but was corrected the CLS problem entirely. Then I came out with the idea to put the sharing buttons on the left side of the page to avoid movements. Sometimes page insights show the average (0.155), sometimes 0 CLS results without changing anything.

    Do you have any idea what the hell is going on here?

    Tested URL: https://www.drivingdirectionsandmaps.com/hungary-google-map/

    Greatest thank!

    Gabor

    Hi there,

    The source of the CLS is the lazyloaded images specified here – https://share.getcloudapp.com/geug1XnZ

    These images are above the fold. Lazyloaded images above the fold tend to cause CLS. Try disabling lazyload for these images.

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