C-Dilla

Thanks Mushrit,

Must be my specific plugin list and a conflict somewhere. I’ll workaround for now, hopefully it will go away with future updates.

Cheers

-Chris

Hi Mushrit,

Appreciate the help but its not really feasible for me to troubleshoot conflicts for this one in this way. The issue is only presenting on a Yoast update so I would need to wait for that to happen. While i could typically do this on my staging site without a big drama, my staging site needs to default to ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ being on. Therefore the only way for me to troubleshoot would be to disrupt my main site pretty dramatically by switching off all other plugins for (potentially) an extended period.

Cheers

-Chris

Hi Maybellyne,

Thanks for the response. Yes I generally update the staging and then push that to production and as I mentioned I thought that was the issue – with me getting sloppy on process but it appears not.

I suspected Yoast because I was checking some things on the main site on Tuesday (but not doing any updates) and confirmed the setting was off. I hopped back in on Wednesday and to my surprise it was on. I checked if any plugins had been updated and Yoast had been. I had the same issue happen to me about 2 weeks ago but I only noticed when my weekly search engine ranking came in at zero so wasn’t entirely sure when it happened. Given Yoast was a suspect, I double checked if Yoast had been updated and it had on the 21st Aug. As a triple check I looked at my SEO tracker and my visibility index cratered on the 21st which confirmed everything in my eyes. I can’t really confirm if its the historical reason as records get sketchy.

Happy to take it up with my host but there definitely seems to be a line connecting things here.

Cheers

-Chris

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I’m testing with PageSpeed Insights and was hovering between a score of 0.24-0.4 depending on when I test. The CLS items being picked up are the elements below the slider however I tried turning the slider off and without making other changes and it will drop to 0.08. I’ve confirmed this via https://webvitals.dev/cls, Hummingbird performance test and throttling by speed via developer tools and visually noting shift.

I kept experimenting after posting this and just in case someone else has the same problem; it looks to have been some kind of spooky conflict between Metaslider, Hummingbird and Smush. I wasn’t seeing any improvement when I went through line by line and disabled plugins but when I tried turning them both off I got down to next to zero CLS. After turning on preload for Metaslider in Hummingbrid, excluding starting images from Smush lazy load (and for some reason then disabling Smush) I seem to have got both desktop and mobile to stay close to zero while keeping the other metrics in reasonable shape.

Turning off Smush is not making any sense to me (especially since i have done so previously with no benefit) but its working so I’m not touching anything. I’d be interested to hear any insight though.

Cheers.