Hi everyone,
Let’s be honest, that’s an emergency call! I’m facing an issue that is killing all the work I have put in my app in the last years. Since the new Core update of google 2 or 3 weeks ago the impact of Core Web Vitals on your Google ranking is very strong, especially three main values:
- First Contentful Paint (FCP)
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
I manage to have a score of 82 on mobile on my website according to Google Speed Insight audit but because of poor values in FCP (5.5sec), LCP (5.4sec) my website has lost more than 50% of google searches clicks in the last 3 weeks… (from 2000 visitors a day early December to 700 yesterday and going down). I have competitor using Wordpress based solution, they score 7 (yes, seven little points) on speed insight but because of proper FCP they didn’t get affected whatsoever…
I am using a Meteor/Apollo/React stack with no SSR as I never found a way to implement it. I wish I could and have tried multiple time but there is no official support for SSR, no proper documentation nor example that works and is kind of updated with the latest packages.
I have implemented prerender.io since the beginning and so far was doing a great job to have good SEO but it seems it’s not enough anymore…
I am open to any idea, any tweak to solve this problem I am faced with in order to save my little business from losing everything… Thanks a lot.
Edit:
The site is https://www.whisky-hamster.com
if you need to run an audit or speed insight to find some insightful ideas…
I already removed the Mailchimp popup, removed fully the semantic-ui-css by keeping only classes/styling I need for myself, removed some images on the first page, improved the loading component to be prefilled at the proper size to avoid shifting, etc, etc… I get great scores but just the LCP and FCP can’t seem to get much better than this…