XF 2.1 Core Web Vitals poor urls

[Vroomm]

So this feature was just shown to me in Google webmasters and oof


That's the whole forum!. No wonder my ranking have suffered so bad!. I am using Nubia theme, perhaps it's the theme that's slow?. I run a dedicated server with a few add-ons, can't be the server.

Which is why i want to know if the admins or people using the xenforo default theme have received such poor ratings/message in their WMT? @Chris D


Regardless, i'll switch to default theme and see if it gets any better.

 

[x6011718]

Have to been able to improve your scores for Core Web Vitals at all?

 

[Kirby]

CLS was a significant issue, but has gotten a lot better with 2.2; with proper optimization you can get good ratings.

XF 2.1 - Google Core Web Vitals: CLS Issue

Search Console seems to have a new report; Core Web Vitals. My report shows many pages have a CLS issue. Reference: Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Any suggestions to improve layout using the transform CSS property?

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Currently there is still an issue with thumbnails in XFMG, but that will be fixed in the next release

Fixed - Missing images sizes for thumbnails

When displaying a thumbnail on media gallery overview pages (category view, etc., the thumbnail image do not specifiy the image size via width / height attributes although this data is available.

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You might also want to test if my Add-on Font Awesome Manager does help to improve the score (it usually does):

Font Awesome Manager

XenForo uses the icon font Font Awesome Pro 5 that contains over 7.000 icons of which XenForo typically uses only a few hundred. But as all icons are included in the CSS and font files, browsers have to download the full font files and CSS which...

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