[Support request] GP Ezoic Settings

[Devesh]

I am looking for insights to increase the site Core Web Vitals (mainly facing LCP score and reduce unused JS issue) for the site shared privately – which is running Ezoic Ads.

I have also discussed the issue with Ezoic team and get the feedback that GP blocks may be slowing down the website also on their blog, while GP Premium theme will work well on standalone basis. I understand that the issue may have to do with Ezoic GP compatibility.

Going through the previous posts on GP and Ezoic, have done the following changes:
1. Unchecked ‘cache dynamic CSS’ as per this post
2. Under Icon Type, selected “font” instead of SVG
3. Changed Dynamic CSS to “Inline Embedding” using this post as reference
4. Turned off “Script Delay” settings for Ezoic LEAP optimization for gp related scripts
5. Switched from google fonts to system fonts (although it still shows google fonts in page inspect, please help resolve this as i understand that this should happen automatically basis your site documentation)

Please let me know your inputs on these points and help resolve pt 5 particularly. Will also appreciate your views in general on how to speed up the website and improve the core web vitals and any best practices you would recommend.

[Ying]

Hi there,

The LCP is mainly from:
1. JS which are not added by GP, so we can’t really advice anything on this.

2. This [removed – cover image] is the Largest Contentful Paint image, I also see the elazyloaded class being add to the image, it’s likely added by your cache plugin to lazy load the image which might be the cause of the LCP.

You need to remove that class, and maybe preload the image. For example, try the below code from Google documents:

<!-- Preload the LCP image with a high fetchpriority so it starts loading with the stylesheet. -->
<link rel="preload" fetchpriority="high" as="image" href="the image link" type="image/webp">

3. I can still see your site is sending request for Google fonts, can you make sure no Google fonts are added in the customizer > typograph?

[Devesh]

Thanks for these inputs.

On point 2- Where do I add this code. Will this be a site level setting (pls see private msg)

On point 3-As far as I can see, I am not using any of the google fonts. I am also using the font manager settings in GP and turned off “Use Google Fonts API” option there. Is there any way to identify this.

[Fernando]

2. You can try adding it through a Hook Element, and set it to display only on pages where the specific cover image mentioned appears.

3. Can you try temporarily disabling non-GP plugins you have and check? It might be that one of your plugins is loading this.

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