Dramatic decrease in traffic since the day after installing Grow
I have had the Grow plugin for about 3 weeks, and am very concerned that Google Analytics is showing a drastic drop in traffic every day since the very day after I installed it. Is there a way for you to check to see if there are any conflicts with Grow and my website?
If not, would I be able to shut off the Grow plugin to check for any improvement without it?
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Official comment
Hey Kimberly,
Mediavine is a Google Certified Publisher Partner and all our products are built with Google-friendliness in mind. There are no known conflicts between Google and Grow that could cause a decrease in traffic.
You are able to view a full list of Grow's known Conflicts and Compatibilities here.
You should be able to disable the Grow plugin for testing purposes, but Grow is required for running Journey ads. If you have Journey ads on your site, we would advise against disabling Grow.
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I'm still having problems and have narrowed it down using PageSpeedInsights. My organic traffic has gone from 11000 to 3000 in the 30 days that I had the Grow plugin installed. During that time I tried everything I could.
2 days ago, I checked my page speed insights and they were failing all the way around (in the60's for both mobile and desktop). So I did some things to fix them and shut off the Grow plugin.
This morning I checked again and speed was rated at 77 for mobile and 92 for desktop. I tried turning Grow back on and about an hour later mobile was down to 56. I turned Grow back off and within 2 minutes mobile is up to 78 and desktop is 97.
From the above answer I received, I see that the problem is most likely not Google. But I'm still not able to pinpoint why my site won't work with Grow when other do. Would someone be able to actually check for anything I'm missing? I'd love to have some help so I can continue with Grow.
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Hi Kimberly,
We're not able to offer specific troubleshooting for pagespeed, but it's possible another plugin you're using or elements relating to your theme impact the Grow plugin. Your GPSI test results should pinpoint opportunities to improve Core Web Vitals and pagespeed.
You could try manually installing Grow's scripts on your site in lieu of using the Grow for WordPress plugin. This article details the officially support manual installation methods.
If you are running Journey ads on your site, you will need to manually install your Journey scripts as well. This article provides instructions for manually installing Journey scripts and this article can help with manually adding the ads.txt file.
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