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No First Input Delay (FID) Data
5 replies · Started by Jeremy on August 4, 2021
Hello GP,
I am not getting any First Input Delay Data (FID) data through Google Search Insights on one of my sites.
Thinking this could be an ad (Ezoic) issue I contacted them and was advised the following
"Hi there,
Support here. Hope all is well.
This doesn't appear to be related to Ezoic when we perform checks. One thing I did notice though is that you're running your site in Development Mode, as explained in a DevTools warning:
"You are running Vue in development mode.
Make sure to turn on production mode when deploying for production.
See more tips at https://vuejs.org/guide/deployment.html";
I also found this when Googling the issue.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/115049779/insufficient-first-input-delay-fid-data?hl=en"
Is this theme related?
If so what do I need to do to my GP installation to resolve?
Thanks!
Jeremy
Hi there,
GP doesn't load VueJS - so that would be a plugin or server side function that is making that request.
If you want to share a link to the site i can take a look, it may give some pointers to what is making the request.
Hi David, thank you for helping me here. Good to narrow it down slightly. See below for the site URL.
I am not seeing any reference to VueJS on the frontend of the site. So i am not sure where Ezoic were looking, is it an Ezoic server ? As if it is an issue at a server level then they should have been able to pinpoint that. As a note WP doesn't use VueJS by default so it would have to be a 3rd party implementation.
The issue i see is quite simply that over the last 28 days Google has not been able to collect enough real user ( CRuX ) data to show the FID. In the past, if FID ( or any metric ) was missing, it wouldn't show any Origin / Field data. Just recently that changed to Partial Field Data:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagespeed-insights-partial-field-data-31582.html
So i would revert back to Ezoic on the VueJS issue.
And then give it some time to see if FID shows up.... To the best of my knowledge missing FID data won't negatively impact page ranking as its a subjective metric ie. some sites may not have or require user interaction.
Hello David.
This was incredibly valuable; thanks for looking and sharing your thoughts here.
I too do not know where Ezoic was drawing those conclusions; I've had my hosting look into it too and they cannot seem to find the issue.
I actually think your explanation makes a lot of sense, and it does install some confidence in me. I was primarily worried about the SEO impact so good to hear your thoughts on this.
Thank you for your help and support here,
You're welcome
