My Discourse site is showing poor performance on Largest Contentful Paint for all “mobile” views. [image] I believe this is connected to a significant drop in page views. Using Google Analytics, my site is faced with a sharp drop in views despite no other problems. The number of posts and numbe…

There are certain metrics where Discourse, due to its architecture – it is a JavaScript app that runs in the browser, not static HTML like the web in 1996 – won’t be as fast. A simple, static HTML page will always beat Discourse in first load time because it’s not an app. However, every subsequent p…

Thank you for the good information. Is it possible that I’ve misconfigured Discourse and there is something I can fix on the site? I’m hoping that the problem is with me, the human. I just disabled all the customizations in themes and components in the hope that something there was pointing to a …

No, you haven’t done anything wrong. It’s the nature of the product: Discourse, as a JavaScript app, is optimized for repeat visitors, not one and done visitors.

It also requires playing nicely with the rest of the phones in the world, e.g. iPhones :wink: … so it’s time to get your Google contacts on the phone and let them know!

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mbauman (Matt Bauman) January 18, 2022, 9:09pm 5

Unfortunately part of optimizing for any visitors (be they repeat or not) requires playing nicely with Google’s algorithm du jour. This has been discussed before:

Topic		Replies	Views
Discourse Loading Time Feature	11	3190	February 5, 2021
Google May 4th Core Update impact on Discourse forums Community Building	103	9013	July 5, 2022
Sudden drop in traffic Community Building	40	4323	December 15, 2022
Huge gap between number of impressions and clicks Support	2	528	June 7, 2021
Page speed results and speed results are really very slow in new update Support	5	1585	May 21, 2020

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