# Need help improving core web vitals

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** splash
**Created:** [September 10, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766 "2022-09-10T12:22:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Faizan\_Zahid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Faizan\_Zahid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Faizan_Zahid)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766/1 "2022-09-10T12:22:17Z")

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[Introducing Discourse Splash - A visual preloader displayed while site assets load](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003)

Thanks guys, indeed great work. However, my site’s core web vitals are still failing, can any one help me pass them for

[https://howtodiscuss.com](https://howtodiscuss.com) for mobile+desktop.

I made a similar topic here and happy to pay for this if someone can help.

> [@Paid - Pass core web vitals and speed up site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-pass-core-web-vitals-and-speed-up-site/238602):
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> I want someone who can work on improving my client side and server side of all pages of [https://howtodiscuss.com](https://howtodiscuss.com) and pass its core web vital scores and acheive 100% score on page speed insights, and A score on pingdom speed test and Gtmetrix. I did try cloudflare and bunny net cdn before but they both didn’t help much in getting my targets achieved. So not using them now. Did some server side tuning too in app.yaml but still not getting where I want the site to be. It is already on a 32 GB RAM …

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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766/2 "2022-09-10T15:45:23Z")

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Why would you want to get full scores?

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### Author: ![j127](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j127/32/79093_2.png) [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766/3 "2022-09-10T17:02:21Z")

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Are you using [this tool](https://pagespeed.web.dev/)? I think it uses real-world data from users over the past 28 days, so if you updated recently, it might take a while to show up in the reports.

If you test it here, your results are all in the green: [https://web.dev/measure/](https://web.dev/measure/)

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766/4 "2022-09-11T05:22:11Z")

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Discourse works fine and the splash is doing its job. The issue is your theme. I just ran the same test from your other post.

With the **theme enabled**

 ![poor GTmetrix performance score (45%) when site theme is enabled](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/e/b/ceb92cae19f37ffa72737ae5e90b9e87e146ecf8.jpeg)

[https://gtmetrix.com/reports/howtodiscuss.com/Xo3GRFGY/](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/howtodiscuss.com/Xo3GRFGY/)

With the **theme disabled**

 ![Good GTmetrix performance score (95%) score when theme is disabled](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/c/f/9cf2c903bc795dd90ecb991b90f9c4b591089145.png)

[https://gtmetrix.com/reports/howtodiscuss.com/KEzAjPBo/](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/howtodiscuss.com/KEzAjPBo/)

You have too many ads, and they’re not configured correctly, so they cause the content to move a lot when they load/refresh and make the site unusable.

The ads also cause a lot of CPU/network usage even if your users are just idle on a page. Here’s a recording of 1 minute on your homepage without any user action.

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### Author: ![Faizan\_Zahid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Faizan\_Zahid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Faizan_Zahid)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-improving-core-web-vitals/299766/5 "2022-09-12T15:43:05Z")

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Great analysis @Johani Thanks.

How can i disable all themes permanently on my [site](https://howtodiscuss.com/) for all users? To pass core web vitals as this is a ranking factor by Google now in SEO.

Is there anyone here who can help me configure my ads implementation correctly so that my site speed is still fast and passes core web vitals. Happy to pay for this.

Please reach out to me via PM.
