Huge Shift for Non Logged in Users – CLS score of 0.74

  • Hi there,

    I’m hoping someone can help fix this issue. I’m currently testing out MH Magazine lite version before I purchase the paid version.

    The site looks great, but I just noticed that for NON logged-in users, the page shifts a lot when they load new pages or reload. For some reason, this does not happen to logged-in users. Which is why I didn’t notice it until now. Not sure if it’s due to the latest WP update or not.

    GTMetrix is now giving my website a CLS score of 0.74. Is anyone else experiencing this or know how to fix it for non logged in users? I have taken a screen recording using Loom if it helps. I can PM it.

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by americanninja.
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  • Thread Starter americanninja

    (@americanninja)

    I was able to fix this by disabling the MH theme widgets “MH Slider Widget” and the “MH Posts Focus” on my front page. This resolved the shift issue and the poor CLS score in Gtmetrix and Google’s Pagespeed insights.

    However, I want to use these widgets as it looks great visually, but I need to deal with the CLS issue as Google will rank the page poorly due to the large CLS shift.

    Has anyone solved this issue? It seems the support forum is very quiet on this theme. Perhaps this theme is no longer actively used. Should I move my site to another theme?

    If I enable the MH Posts Focus widget, the CLS score is not that bad, it’s in the orange range. So I have that enabled for now on the site. Enabling the slider results in the score getting up to .5 and higher (red classification).

    If the theme developer is no longer maintaining this theme, can someone please tell me how I can manually fix this? I assume it’s just a matter of specifying width and height settings in the code for the MH Slider widget, no?

    Thread Starter americanninja

    (@americanninja)

    As I haven’t recieved a reply on this thread, I had to stop using the MH Theme widget as the CLS score was too poor (= bad google SEO). For anyone else having this issue, my suggestion is to use the plugin: WP Responsive Recent Post Slider/Carousel.

    It works great and with no CLS issue.

    For the theme developer, it would be great to hear from you. If this theme is no longer actively maintained, it would also be great to hear this, as perhaps I should find another theme. Thank you!

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