Improving site speed and Core Web Vitals is crucial for a better user experience and higher search engine rankings. This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to leverage Ezoic to make your website incredibly fast. We will cover the essential steps to optimize your site at three different layers: the Cloud, your CMS and framework, and the individual pages. By following these best practices, you can achieve stellar PageSpeed Insight Scores and perfect Core Web Vitals, ensuring your site performs optimally in all aspects. Let's dive into the specific actions and resources that can help you enhance your website's speed using Ezoic.

1. Start By Optimizing Cloud:
   • Integrate with Ezoic using Cloudflare or name servers, not the WP plugin.
   • Enable Ezoic's super-fast CDN and caching.
   • Disable CDN or caching features at your host, or ensure Cloudflare settings are optimized for Ezoic integration.
   • Allow Ezoic to override caching or delivery of pages that may be cached by something else. Set caching rules in the tool, or via the Ezoic WP plugin designed for this purpose.
     
     
2. Optimize CMS and Framework (WordPress, Joomla, etc.):
   • Disable features inside your CMS, theme, page builders, plugins, and extensions that might conflict with Ezoic’s optimization, such as caching or image optimization.
   • Enable Ezoic's free speed features that improve the delivery of CSS, Javascript, HTML, fonts, images, and other elements.

   Additional things to consider in WordPress:

   • Wherever possible, toggle off page builder features (Beaver Builder, Divi, Elementor), themes, and common plugin options that optimize speed but may conflict with Ezoic.
   • Disable plugins or features serving images in next-gen formats or resizing them, minifying, lazy-loading, deferring, or optimizing HTML, JS, or CSS.
   • Turn off plugins or features controlling caching or caching Google Analytics or other JS embed codes.
     
     
     
     
     
     
3. Optimize Pages and Measure Site Speed:
   • Remove other speed optimization scripts or technology from the header before activating Ezoic’s speed features.
   • Be patient when measuring site speed after making changes. It might require up to 24 hours for changes to reflect in tools.

   Measuring Page Speed:

   • Use Google Lighthouse for real-time measurement.
   1. Clear any caches on the site/page and wait 45-60 minutes after changes.
   2. Open Chrome in Incognito mode.
   3. Right-click on the page and select Inspect Element.
   4. In the top right, select the Lighthouse tab.
   5. Select Performance, then click Generate Report.
      
      
      
      
   • Google Search Console and Pagespeed Insights can be used for long-term monitoring.
   • Access Google Search Console or Pagespeed Insights to see CrUX data (real data from Chrome users over the last 28 days).
   • Pagespeed Insights includes both Lighthouse and CrUX field data.
   • Avoid using tools like GTMetrix and Pingdom for long-term measurements as they may conflate timings.

If you encounter any issues while optimizing your site speed using Ezoic, here are some common problems and step-by-step solutions:

1. Caching Conflicts:
   • Issue: Your site might not display properly or work as expected due to conflicts between Ezoic's caching and other caching plugins or features.
   • Solution: Disable CDN or caching features at your host, or ensure you have optimized Cloudflare settings for Ezoic integration. Allow Ezoic to override caching or delivery of pages or parts of pages that may be cached by something else. If you are using a WP plugin for setting caching rules, ensure it does not conflict with Ezoic's caching settings.
2. Measurement Discrepancies:
   • Issue: Difficulty in accurately measuring the impact of changes due to improper use of measurement tools.
   • Solution: Use Google Lighthouse for real-time measurement and Google Search Console or Pagespeed Insights for long-term monitoring. Avoid using tools like GTMetrix and Pingdom which may conflate timings and provide confusing data.
3. Patience in Changes:
   • Issue: Changes to site speed may not appear immediately.
   • Solution: Be patient as changes may take up to 24 hours to reflect in real-time measurement tools and up to 28 days for field data measurements in tools like Google Search Console and Pagespeed Insights.

If you need further assistance with your site's Core Web Vitals, please log in via https://support.ezoic.com/ to make use of our dedicated resources for support. We're here to help!