"Google May 2020 Core Update" affecting your xF Forum?

[Anatoliy]

The forum has been around since 2005, we had GoogleAds from the start and there were never any problems with it. Then Google started to constantly change the rules so that we use AutoADS to avoid placing too many ads or placing them in the wrong place.
If Google now penalizes sites for their own ads to slow down the site, it's perverted.

yeah, google is evil, Napoleon already informed us. )

 

[arn]

Ok, we did all three Thanks to Todo 10 for their responsiveness!

Nice, but I don't see the Lazy loading attachments working yet

arn

 

[Anatoliy]

300px picture that loads 10 seconds is something... say hello to Sam )

 

[arn]

@askandy

also I don't see attachments behind cloudflare yet either

Make sure the rule includes

https://yourdomain.com/forum/attachments/*

mine didn't have the /forum/ subdir

Also, I see rocket loader on now. I'm not sure if your host just turned that on. I've heard it doesn't play well with XF. so keep eye out of it breaks anything.

 

[Anatoliy]

1. cache-control:
   private, no-cache, max-age=0
   is set for attachments. that's why CF doesn't cache it

 

[arn]

1. cache-control:
   private, no-cache, max-age=0
   is set for attachments. that's why CF doesn't cache it

Turn this off in the rule

 

[Anatoliy]

I actually had to set for /attachments/ origin cache control: off

Browser Cache TTL: a month, Cache Level: Cache Everything, Edge Cache TTL: a month, Origin Cache Control: Off

 

[Anatoliy]

stereo )

 

[askandy]

Gotcha. Is the traffic loss mostly forums or across the non-forums as well?

Sorry for the delay. I was having some weird problems with the filters/segments in GA -- the numbers weren't adding up, but now they do.

Looks like non-forum traffic stayed the same. As you can see, most of our traffic goes to the forum.

 

[askandy]

now fix Largest Contentful Paint (10 seconds!!!) and you will be all set.

That code didn't work on the forum It broke the ad, and not the broken ad code is cached -- I think maybe in Cloudflare.

 

[askandy]

300px picture that loads 10 seconds is something.

Strange -- it's only 18.4kb

 

[Anatoliy]

Strange -- it's only 18.4kb

first sam's js executes to show a container, then ads js executes to show an ads in that container... I guess the idea was to lazy load ads, so page with a lot of them would load fast. but I guess it didn't work out as expected.

 

[Anatoliy]

I would say something's wrong with that script. without it that pic would jump out in half a second

 

[Anatoliy]

hey, may be Sam put that script in May? )))))

 

[askandy]

Turn this off in the rule
View attachment 230155

Done

 

[Anatoliy]

Done

works. cache control is public. attachments are serving from CF cache.

 

[Anatoliy]

lazy loading doesn't work. a page is loading and loading and loading...
I wonder if rocketloader kills that sam-lazy script

 

[Anatoliy]

can you ask to turn Rocket Loader off for 10mnts? just to check.

 

[askandy]

lazy loading doesn't work. a page is loading and loading and loading

I've notified Todo10 -- they'll check it out.

 

[arn]

@askandy all seems to be working for me now.

While the page insights tool is ok -- in a few days, go to google analytics and check out page speed timings. There you might be able to see some change in actual measured page load speed. I'm not 100% sure if what was done will make a measurable impact in these measurements but it should help. But good to check it out.