White Space without ads

michaeltruth

Please, when I check my posts without logging in, I notice that Ezoic displays the text 'advertisement' with the dot dot dot animation but never load ads in these areas.
It happens at the header, footer and even inbetween contents, and on the sidebar.

It seems there's always a struggle before I get an ad served on my site and by that time the visitor may be long gone. I've been noticing this development for a while now.

Another issue is that there is a large white space at the top of my blog posts. I don't know for sure if this is caused by the ads which never show, Rank Math or Kadence Block.

I tried deactivating these two plugins and at times it seemed the problem was fixed then the next moment I saw the same issue.

In addition, my page speed dropped after I integrated my Adsense Account. Anyway, I found out that Ezoic doesn't even serve ads through Adsense on my site so I decided to deactivate the Adsense Mediation but my page speed has not improved.

Counting on your help as always....

Ethan

michaeltruth The ads do load a white space with three dots on your site on my end, but its only temporary and the ads do load once all the content has loaded in. Where are you accessing the site from, and have you double checked you're not using any in-browser ad blockers?

In terms of speed, your cache hit rate and Leap settings do look pretty good already. Have you made any recent changes to try improve speed e.g. following Leap recommendations? Also, how've you been measuring site speed so far?

michaeltruth

Please I am not using any in-browser ad blocker. I turn to Leap for the core vital scores. Currently, my mobile score has reduced from the score it was and my desktop score disappeared and was replaced with a question mark.

I have not made any changes recently to improve speed. But I think the speed dropped when I joined the Google Adsense Mediation. I have disconnected the Adsense Mediation but haven't seen any improvement in the scores.

Thank you.

Tucker_P_Ezoic

Mediation shouldn't be related to speed issues in any way. I don't think that's the right path to go down.

Seeing a '?' means there's not enough real-user data to display a score. That usually indicates something blocking LEAP / caching optimizations (such as third-party caching tools or plugins, even from the hosting side) or traffic to the site not being recorded properly on Ezoic versions.

Seeing the 'blank' locations of ads is either caused by an ad blocker, use of a VPN, slow internet connection speeds, or 'bad' browsing engagement metrics for your visits.

michaeltruth

Tucker_P_Ezoic Thank you sir.