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acidrain_lnx I see - thank you for clarifying. Changing the DNS/integrating itself isn't going to change your Core Web Vital scores. However, when you integrate Ezoic ads and other Ezoic script is added to your site, which does result in some latency and will affect Core Web Vitals. That is an unavoidable part of monetizing a site.

Ultimately if you want to monetize the site then there is going to be some impact on site speed.

If you want to monetize the site but also focus on site speed > go to Leap > optimize > script execution > change settings > disable ads above the fold. This'll improve your LCP scores but of course can hurt revenue

    5 days later

    Ethan

    Hello again:

    I cant find a solution to this. I've disabled ads, only Leap and CDN bus the values are horriblle. I'm gooing to work again with my old Ads provider so i will remove Ezoic some months or mayve forevert. I cant spent days, weeks and months trying to discover what is happnening with Ezoic, it's crazy.

    Maybe at the end of this year I will try it again....but I need to recover CWV in Google an recover some traffic.

    Regs

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        Ezoic Employee

      acidrain_lnx Sorry to hear this. It doesn't look like you ever managed to implement the suggestion to turn off ads above the fold, which ultimately would've helped with Core Web Vital performance. Additionally, you mentioned recovering traffic but looking at your Ezoic analytics, there wasn't really a drop in traffic. Speed is also only one of hundreds of factors Google uses in ranking sites, and we've typically found that sites don't tend to see their ranking hurt by poor site speed as long as content is of a high quality - that might be something bearing in mind

        16 days later

        Hello Ethan:

        I disabled the Ezoic CDN/leap and DNS 2 weeks for testing purpose and know, my site is again in Review? Why? I've been working with Ezoic in that domain 1 year !

        Regs

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            Ezoic Employee

          acidrain_lnx - Looks like all your sites that have a revenue history with us are approved and earning revenue. You do have one site in your account that isn't yet approved but from what we can see it has never earned revenue (m************ras.com) - is this correct?

            This is the domain: ra*******dez.net where I want to re-enable again Ads.

              You should be all set within the next hour 🙂 It can take 18-24 hours for integration to complete after switching the nameservers, just for future reference 🚀

                13 days later

                Hello again:

                I disabled ezoic from my website and CLS went to 0 in all my pages. Now, I've moved again my domain to Ezoic, some days CLS has been stable, but not, its increasing ... no changes, no templates changes, no css changes, nothing, nothing ....

                I can't understand this behavior 🙁

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                    Ezoic Employee

                  acidrain_lnx Hey, CLS wise, you're performing incredibly well. I am looking at raul*****dez.net still, is this correct? If so, you are passing core web vitals here, where you are not performing as well is your LCP scores, particuarly on mobile. Changes that can positively include your LCP score are things like moving larger elements below the fold, and making improvemetns to your cache hit rate. Have you looked into this via Leap?

                    Most of the configurations are enabled, but CLS is day by day going up ..... CDN On, Leap on , Cache On, not too much ads enabled..... when I'm using my hosting, CLS is nearly 0, but with Ezoic .... is a mess. Lets see hos it works in this second chance.

                    Regs

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                        Ezoic Employee

                      acidrain_lnx CLS has got worse over the last few days, that is correct. However, it doesn't seem to have increased by an amount which should be causing concern, you're still passing Core Web Vitals. I'm also not seeing any recommendations when testing URLs in Ezoic lab. We could revisit this if the CLS scores continue getting worse but for now we just need to give Leap some time to optimize on your site and for optimized versions of the site to begin storing in the cache

                        5 days later

                        Ethan

                        Hello Ethan: as you can see in the attached image, CLS is going really bad. In only 10 days, my CLS value in Ezoic has changed from 100/100 to 44/100 in only 10 days ! It's crazy ....

                        No changes. My website is the same than 10 days ago ... So , Ezoic and ADS are the root cause because my website has that huge bad value.

                          You're possibly oversimplifying things here stating 'Ezoic and ads are the root cause' -- it's most likely more nuanced than that and we have thousands upon thousands of sites using our ad services without these CLS issues, so it's a site specific issue not an overarching one like you're suggesting. We want to avoid those kinds of generalities and focus on the facts when possible.

                          To take a step back here, we really suggest utilizing the tools available as part of LEAP.
                          The first place to start is the 'my scores' tab. When you go to CLS, you're seeing around 75% of real-user visits to the site passing the CLS metrics. You can then look at the individual pages that reported 'poor' and then test in the Ezoic lab (to the right of the URLs being reported).
                          From there, you can see suggestions to improve the scores as well as testing results to see if there's an anomaly with certain visits. In this case, I tested the poorest performing URL, and it's actually passing the tests - indicating that it's most likely an isolated issue that's working itself out as LEAP optimizes and caching hits at a higher rate (see screenshot).

                          We also need to remember that CWV metrics account for around 2% of all ranking factors --- and as long as you haven't seen a dip in user engagement, the scores aren't going to be an indicator of anything wrong with the site necessarily.

                            Hi again:
                            Two weeks ago my Scores were 89 in mobile and desktop. Now that values are: 66 and 68.

                            I've disabled both side rails... lets see how it works.

                            If I remove Ezoic Ads and Cloudflare CDN, my CWV are 99/96/100/100 even better sometimes....I know if I enable Ads that values maybe are lower, but it has been working fine 2 weeks. I don't understand why it has been working two weeks and now that values are horrible.....

                            Lets see how it works! Thanks!

                            Regs

                            Desktop CLS from Google (number of total good pages: 0 )

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                                Ezoic Employee

                              acidrain_lnx Sure, just a heads up, we did just make a change with Leap on the backend yesterday which should contribute to better LCP performance and you should see the effects of this come into play in the next few days and hopefully better LCP scores!

                                Update:
                                CLS in Desktop is growing day by day:

                                My score has changed in desktop from 89 to 65 in 2 weeks and now google mark all my webspages as bad:

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                                    Ezoic Employee

                                  acidrain_lnx What was the thinking behind turning off side rail ads on the site? I don't see how these ads would be contributing to bad CLS scores. I am going to contact the Leap team and see if they have any ideas though and will let you know what they say

                                    Ethan

                                    I've disabld that side rails because your mate Tucker_P_Ezoic told me to remove it some weeks ago in this thread. Today, my Score is:

                                    Mobile: 67 (2 weeks ago 89)
                                    Desktop: 63 (2 weeks ago 89)

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                                        Ezoic Employee

                                      acidrain_lnx Got it, thanks for confirming. As I mentioned, I've asked the speed team to look into it and we'll let you know when we hear back from them