Ads Showing Late

I recently upgraded from Version 9.5 with WPBakery to Version 11.5.1 (with TD Composer/Cloud Builder/Standard Pack on). It seemed to go alright but after a few days it became clear that ads on the site aren’t showing up for a good portion of the audience.

For those it does, it takes up to 10-15 seconds to load them because they seem to be the last things to load on the page, and even when they do there’s a lot of errors in the console, either ‘address unreachable’ or missing consent value issues.

It’s not a server issue. If I include the ad code directly through the header, there is no delay – they load instantly. It’s including them through the ‘Ads’ part in the theme panel that leads to the issue, something is slowing things way down.

I’ve switched off all non tagdiv plugins to test, with the exception of Iubenda for GDPR compliance which has to stay on, and the slowdown is still there.

My assumption is it’s something to do with one of the TD plugins. I’ve noticed that the one page I have built in TD composer (the homepage), one block on the page has an ajax category filter that is also delayed a good 10-15 seconds and then shows up at the exact same time the ads do – every single time.

At this point I don’t know what to do. I can’t roll back to Version 9.5 of the theme because it’s too outdated. Switching off the standard pack leaves the site a mess. At this point I’m considering just hard coding the ads into the files somehow or moving to a whole different theme after seven years with you guys.

Any suggestions I could test? I can’t share the site URL publicly, so what should I do?

• This topic was modified 3 years by FrankG.
• This topic was modified 3 years by FrankG.