Web Stories Ad Unit – NONE

Hi @akiraanastasia, thanks for opening a support topic with us. Please could you share the following information:

1. Your?Site Health information. You can?use this form?to share privately if preferred.
2. Do you see ads on your Web Stories currently?
3. Any screenshots or recordings of this which you can share to the private form above.

Let me know if you have any questions on the above.

@adamdunnage Hi, now it is showing. Thanks. Another thing i wanted to ask, in adsense (web) dashboard sites section, some sites shows they are linked with sitekit, while some don’t show that message below domain name.

@akiraanastasia Thanks for your follow up question. We have seen this previously where the message doesn’t display for all listed domain names. If you can see the Site Kit placed AdSense code snippet on your site and ads displaying then this is nothing to worry about.

I will follow this up with the team though to see why this may be happening but in this case I suspect it’s nothing to worry about on your side.

@adamdunnage okay, thanks. Site kit helps in Auto Ads by adsense right? So can we remove Ad inserter plugin. We have old codes which inserts ads after some paragraphs in articles. Can auto ads will continue to do it? Also, can Site Kit add such features in upcoming updates? that would be super helpful.

@akiraanastasia Site Kit places the necessary AdSense code to your site which allows your auto ads to work. While the choice to remove other plugin is ultimately yours, Site Kit does manage this for you.

We are always looking to improve Site Kit and if you do have any improvement suggestions then please feel free to share those with us and we will gladly pass these on to the team for discussion.

@adamdunnage Okay.

About suggestions/requests:

1. For adsense, you can try adding similar basic features from Ad inserter plugin, like enabling ads after paragraph etc.
2. This one is about Speed optimization and PageSpeed score. Google suggest to keep pagespeed score better (small factor in Ranking), mostly Core Web Vitals Assessment should pass basic etc. But here are two realities: 1. Once we add adsense code to site (Or any other ad services), keeping the score high/green is almost difficult/impossible. Adsense code degrades performance. 2. Big sites like Techradar, Wirecutter performance score is around 33 in mobile, 65 in desktop. Still they rank higher always (of course, SEO, E-T-A is different subject), but then what’s point of showing bad score if anyway those sites gonna rank higher. And most of the time its adsense_pub code. GTmetrix looks more realistic, bcz with ads, its not possible to get max score. Only showcasing what can be improved is better than showing bad scores. Maybe Google should change how PageSpeed metrics are calculated.
3. Sometimes Webstories visits not showing in webmaster discover tab or in Analytics.
4. Try reducing server usage by SiteKit.

Other things are great! Keep up the good work! Plugin working fine.???

@akiraanastasia Thank you for all the suggestions. Please see below for feedback on these:

1. I will pass this on to the team for discussion.
2. For each connected Google service, Site Kit will also add the?appropriate code snippets on the front-end?to allow for requests between the service and your WordPress site. I’d also like to point you to our?Front-end performance with Site Kit page?which may provide you with some further useful information on performance when using Site Kit.
3. This is unfortunately not a Site Kit specific issue so I would suggest for this to reach out to Web Stories support and/or the Analytics Help Center.
4. I’d like to point you to our?Front-end performance with Site Kit page?which may provide you with some further useful information on performance when using Site Kit. We have also been carrying out an internal performance audit on Site Kit where we are still evaluating the data. Early findings from the audit show that there are generally no concerning performance degradation when comparing Site Kit added code vs manually added script tags.There are other areas we are looking to improve upon once the audit is complete but with this in mind, you shouldn’t be experiencing any significant performance issues as the result of using Site Kit on your site.

We are glad to hear that you think so and are always looking to improve the plugin. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.