toddlgray

Thanks, Frank. That actually helps a LOT (and I’m being serious because that DOES ring a bell).

— Todd

Hi Frank,

It has something to do with the post list on the front page and goes away if I remove it.

My best guess is that there is something wrong with the code from Thrive.

Thanks for helping me narrow it down.

All the best,

— Todd

“Does this also happen when you disable HTML optimization?”

That did the trick, but only momentarily, and then it came back?

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Plus the Violation warnings…

— Todd

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No doubt. However, I’m thankful that programs like yours enable “us” to tackle much of it in terms of optimizing for load time and this other stuff is like a fly in the ointment (of little consequence in the real world outside of Google, but annoying just the same).

All the best.

— Todd

Absolutely and thank you for all your help thus far because it has helped me improve the site ??

In this case, it was the paragraph right after the heading: “My Jeweler Chipped My Diamond”

The CLS moved to the table of contents just below the fold when the content box containing the first paragraph of text below the heading into a normal paragraph.

Below the fold, down around the 2/3 mark on the page.

Something is definitely up because I wasn’t getting any CLS on that page and resolved it on several others.

In fact, there was a nice little green blip showing an upward trend on the Core Vitals report within Google Search Console for two days and then it went red again.

On this particular page, the CLS today was reported as being due to a content box containing a quote. I removed that and stuck the text within a normal paragraph and the CLS moved to the table of contents. I removed that and it dropped down pretty close to zero.

Thanks. I fixed the dimensions on the hero image at the top so that it’s set at 1080 px.

However, I don’t think that’s the issue and it’s kind of a ghost in the machine.

The original CLS issue runs sitewide anywhere there is a table of contents within the article. I’ve tried setting that component at 1080 px and auto and it was still occurring and only disappeared when I deactivated Autoptimize.

Now, it’s not occurring on that page and the 0.07 CLS issue is being caused by the quote marks icon further down the page. Let’s ignore that for the moment.

Google Search Console flagged about half the pages on my site for CLS issues, so I went down them and a lot of them are now coming up zero which is great.

https://niceice.com/costco-diamonds-vs-blue-nile-which-sparkle-more-why/ was showing a CLS of 0.34 but that went to 0 when I cleared the RapidLoad cache for that page and ran it again.

In that case, it might just be a matter of stuff needing to be re-optimized for the pages that are being flagged.

Apparently, I removed it to test a theory and forgot to put it back. It’s back on the page now and the CLS returned. Thank you.

Hi Frank,

I turned “Inline and Defer CSS” back on.

Thank you.

— Todd

Okay, thank you, Frank.

Hi Frank,

Thank you for your prompt response.

As a matter of fact, the CLS does vanish when I uncheck “Inline & Defer CSS.”

In that case, what’s the recommendation?

— Todd