Tag Google Analitics afects Core Vital

Ice

I noticed that in addition to third-party codes, the Google analytics tag also slows down the site and affects its scores, which is why I ask if it is mandatory for those who have Ezoic and Adsense to have Google analytics?
Lately I've been making a lot of changes to improve my score on mobile devices, which dropped significantly after the last Google update and nothing seems to be having any effect.

Ethan

Ice Hey,

It isn't mandatory to use Google Analytics, but many publishers do use this as a tool for measuring site metrics. That said, you could remove Google Analytics and just use Ezoic's analytics platform instead.

Taking a closer look, your biggest issues are LCP and INP on mobile. In terms of LCP, the poor scores are coming from the featured images in your articles. You may consider removing the images from mobile devices, or move the images out of the first viewport (as Google only measures LCP using the first viewport), and this'll reduce the LCP score.

In terms of the INP scores, those seem to be coming from Ezoic scripts/ads, I'll ask the speed team if they have any suggestions how to improve those scores.

Ice

Ethan O.K I will be guided by Ezoic's analytics, thank you for ask the speed team to see it.
I will see this from the images on mobile devices.
I had already remove the first image above but the LCP was immediately assigned to the next image, I'll see if I can edit just the mobile part because everything is fine on desktops,

Ethan

Ice Our tech team got back and noticed some optimizations hardcoded into your site, and they recommend removing the following code to improve INP:

<link rel="preload" as="image" href="https://www.receitasfaceisrapidasesaborosas.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/png-este-cabecalho.png?ezimgfmt=ng%3Awebp%2Fngcb1%2Frs%3Adevice%2Frscb1-2"/>
<link rel="preload" as="image" href="/https://www.receitasfaceisrapidasesaborosas.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bTarte-de-pera.webp"/>
<!-- Load the stylesheet that will reference the LCP image. -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/to/styles.css"/>

Have you been using optimization technologies outside Ezoic to try and improve site speed? This may be at your host or via plugins. Generally its recommended to disable third party optimizations if you're using Leap to avoid incompatibilities between Leap and third party speed optimizations

Tucker_P_Ezoic

We'll get back to you when we have additional feedback from the LEAP team 🙂

Ice

Im not been using optimization technologies outside Ezoic to try and improve site speed, I put this code in yesterday, after researching how to improve LCP to resolve the image filling with larger content as a solution to load the site faster and resolve the LCP, yes I can remove it.

Ethan

Ice Sure, try removing that and then we can monitor Core Web Vitals over the coming days and if there's no improvements we'll ask the speed team to look back into it, particularly the INP issue.

Ice

Ethan o.k I already removed it

Tucker_P_Ezoic

Feel free to check back in on Thursday and we can review again 🙂

Ice

Tucker_P_Ezoic Best regards, i check again INP dropped to 800 but still well above what is needed, I already removed what I could take from the site to try to reach lower scores but the problem remains related to Painting element with the greatest content in almost all posts, even the images have already been reduced and almost all are webp. And it appears https://www.receitasfaceisrapidasesaborosas.pt/tardisrocinante/cash.js?cb=4 with 12.5 KiB in size and 150ms of loading and it's a shame because my website at Easter and Christmas is when I can have some gains and now since the Google update I'm lost.

Another thing, I should be able to have a different home page layout for mobile where I could put fewer images and more on the text base and have my usual desktop layout, but the theme I bought Jannah cannot do this type of editing, so Because I have more speed on mobile, my desktop site is far from what it used to be. I feel frustrated..

Mohammad2306

The recent Google updates are not directly related to site speed. They have been focused on content. Moroever, site speed is important but it is not a major ranking factor. To gain more traffic, the focus should be on content.

Your content is looking different, zoomed in, when I access the site on Chrome. Did you run additional updates? Can you make sure to clear your cache?

Ice

Mohammad2306 Best regards!
Immediately after their update, the search console pointed out several pages affected with INP problem: greater than 500 ms (mobile devices)
Content in zoom? Here I see everything normal although I removed the first 3 photos from the top fold and just put text and I don't like that at all I just tried to solve my problem. My content was the same before the update, the only change I made was the theme. In February I changed it to Janna Theme, which everyone talks about very well...

The resources that are being affected are: https://www.receitasfaceisrapidasesaborosas.pt/tardisrocinante/cash.js?cb=4
13 KiB 157 This is a problem that you might be able to resolve.
And the images that previously didn't cause any major problems now all appear as Elements that are most filled with content. This, as I said, was a period in which I usually earn well and work well and now it is a complete disaster. I will have to review what to do in the future.

Mohammad2306

There is a difference between the INP update in March 2024 (-> https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/05/introducing-inp) and the recent Google algorithm updates related to content ( -> https://status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1u87FJnkP6W2GwMi/history).

I'm still seeing the display issue on your site. As a precaution, can you clear all of your cache (Ezoic cache, WP plugin cache, hosting cache, etc)?

Ice

Mohammad2306 yes I will clear all caches

Ice

hI, i Have cleaned all the caches, do you still see the issue?

Mohammad2306

Thanks for confirming. I'm no longer seeing that issue on your site.

Ice

Mohammad2306 Best regards!
The problem with my website continues, the visits have dropped dramatically. The INP Problem: greater than 500 ms (mobile devices) continues, I've already made a lot of changes to solve it and nothing seems to work. The earnings fell when this past Easter time I was earning very well with Adsense...

To make the site faster I had to remove the ads above the fold and remove the humix and still nothing works. Yesterday I saw advertisements on my casino website, when I didn't authorize them even if the winnings were good, but to earn cents I don't accept casino advertisements. The Jannah theme that I purchased in February does not offer independent editing for mobile devices, so when I removed the images at the top I was now left with a rather poor desktop site.

Before, there was no problem with the images, which are now more content-filled. My website is 13 years old and had a lot of views and was fast lately it has only gotten worse and I feel very frustrated about it. I'm looking for solutions in my accommodation, but they've already assured me that everything is fine and have sent documentation to prove it. So I'll have to see with you what you can do, and I've already contacted the Jannah theme guys asking for a refund, which means that if I get it I'll soon change the theme.

Mohammad2306

If your hosting provider is imposing limitations, you may want to consider switching to Ezoic's free WordPress Hosting. That being said, your website content is loading fine when I go to your site. In terms of user experience, I am not really seeing major issues. With all the information that is out there about site speed and Core Web Vitals, it's easy to focus on it but it's ultimately not a major ranking factor. What's more, it may be distracting you from other more important areas. Ultimately, what matters most is your content. That is an area where you can gain the most. Google will reward you for more quality content. To supplement the recipes, you could incorporate more images and also video content.