Core Web Vitals – Plugin Recommendations?

  • Semrush sends me weekly Site Audits, and one of the stats I keep seeing is ‘Core Web Vitals declined.’ I kinda half know what that means, so I’ve been drilling into the links etc to get a better grasp of what needs to be streamlined.

    In SiteKit, I see that my Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) 0.6s is OK on desktops, but ‘needs improvement’ at 2.5s on mobile. The other stats are good on desktops, but Cumulative Layout Shift and Total Blocking Time are both ‘Poor.’

    Semrush’s help windows led me to Chrome Developer tools, and that eventually let me to WordPress resources, and at the top of the list is the plugin called ‘Jetpack’ As near as I can tell from the plugin description, Jetpack sounds like can address these ‘Core Vitals’ without me having to figure out what the rest of this code jargon means.

    I am already running ‘Autoptimize’ per a certain guru’s recommendations.

    So my questions are: is Jetpack compatible with Automptimize? Does it duplicate what Autoptimize does or add additional code-minimizing tools? Is there any benefit to running both, or should I chose one over the other?

    I did a search on “Jetpack -v- Autoptimize and the only results I got are ‘Jetpack -v- WP Rocket’ – feel free to weigh in on one or the other.

    Any other thoughts on improving ‘Core Web Vitals’ ?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I had a look at the pagespeed insights result for the homepage and the most important (and only non-green) KPI is CLS. this _seems_ to be caused by how the header (title + menu) is rendered?

    Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    CLS – somebody else I mentioned Cumulative Layout Shift. Dunno what that means but I guess I’m going to find out.

    That image that loads with the header/logo, the files is 200x200px @72dpi… but it’s only displaying 100x100px. Should I reconfigure that file to 100×100 and reduce the image quality. What’s a good file size for that kind of image?

    Thanks,

    –PS

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