Will you be making changes to address the upcoming Google page speed Core Web Vitals?

[Mo6]

Will you be making changes to address Google's page speed Core Web Vitals? It appears Google will be scoring sites and labeling them with fast or slow markers (visual indicators) in search results. When I test my site's pages with LIghthouse or Google Page Speed Insights, most of the "improvements" on my pages are being reported as JavaScript, CSS and server response time issues, which are under Weebly's control. I'd appreciate hearing your planned response to these changes, which affect the success of your merchants and other hosting clients that receive Google search traffic.

See this Google announcement - https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/11/timing-for-page-experience.html

[Michaelsamo]

Been thinking the same and also run weebly sites on lighthouse with a very bad score out of my control. This will be a major ranking factor and all Weebly sites will fall off the grid if they can't or don't fix all these back end issues. I hope they announce something as the future will look bleak

[EF24]

Agreed, be good to understand what the plan is given the potential search impact. 

[CSide1]

This question, concerning what Weebly was doing to make sure our sites are ready for the coming Google Web Vitals, was asked now eight weeks ago, 10/2020.  Anyone else out there also ntersted in the Weebly slow load times now?  The causes seem to be areas in the Themes that we have no control over.  AND no new themes since the Square acquisition.  Just wondering if we are being heard?

[CSide1]

This question, concerning what Weebly was doing to make sure our sites are ready for the coming Google Web Vitals, was asked four weeks ago, 11/2020.  Anyone else out there also ntersted in the Weebly slow load times now?  The causes seem to be areas in the Themes that we have no control over.  AND no new themes since the Square acquisition.  Just wondering if we are being heard?

[CSide1]

This question, concerning what Weebly was doing to make sure our sites are ready for the coming Google Web Vitals, was asked four weeks ago, 11/2020.  Anyone else out there also ntersted in the Weebly slow load times now?  The causes seem to be areas in the Themes that we have no control over.  AND no new themes since the Squaree acquisition.  Just wondering if we are being heard?

[Edinburghguy]

Hi everyone, 

Glad to see I'm not the only person concerned about the Core Web Vitals updates that are due, I can't see any reply from anyone connected to Weebly, which worries me even more!

Does anyone have any idea how we go about solving this problem ourselves? 

Cheers, Craig.

[clare67]

Hi Craig,

You could try 'preloading' certain files. Using the 'preload' attribute gets a file ready, before other elements on the page are loaded.

In my case, I have a lot of pages that use the Header template. I have a background image that fills up the whole of the header section.

To preload the background image I did this;

- Click Pages on the Menu, or just click the page you want to edit.
- Then on the left, choose SEO Settings > Header Code.
- Add this code (replacing the href value with your own full image path).

<link rel="preload" href="full-file-path-to-your-bg-image-goes-here.jpg" as="image" type="image/jpg">

Publish the page.

My Performance score (using Google Lighthouse) was 29/100 before doing all this. After adding the code, the score went up to 39/100!

It's worth a try.

Clare

[Mo6]

Hi Clare,

Thanks for the suggestion. Weebly's still on the hook for JavaScript, CSS and server response time issues, which are out of our control and the major factor in slow load times. 

[rora]

I would like an answer to this too, as every one of my pages has this issue for desktop pages, but not for mobil pages.