Fetch and Render misses middle chunk of page

[BrianAlpert78]

Hey folks,

I was checking out a site with the Search Console's "Fetch and Render" function and found something potentially worrisome. A big chunk of the middle of the page (the homepage) shows up as empty space in the preview render window. The site isn't doing so hot in terms of rankings, and I'm wondering if this issue is causing it (since it could indicate that 80% of the copy on the homepage is invisible to Google)

A few other details:

• The specific content isn't showing in either view. Both the "What Google sees" and "What the visitor sees" are missing this chunk of the page
• The content IS visible in cached versions of the page
• The html for the content seems to be in the
• The "Fetch" part returns "Complete" as opposed to "Partial" so I don't THINK it's a matter of javascript stuff getting blocked by robots.txt
• This website was built using the Wordpress theme "Suco" and the parts of the page that aren't rendering are all built with the Themify Builder tool
• Not ALL of the Themify Builder elements are showing up as blank. There's a slider element that's rendering just fine

Any ideas on what could cause whole portions of a page not to show up in Fetch and Render?

Thanks!

[Lumina]

From my experience, several different Javascript and Ajax elements can confuse Google. While you obviously don't want to outright avoid their use, it's always good to have someone knowledgeable sift though any code written externally (like a WP theme or plugin, in your case) to ensure that content is always present, even when it isn't necessarily "called" yet.

[Carson-Ward]

Interesting - thanks for coming back to update.

[BrianAlpert78]

I figured out what it was, and it could have implications for anyone else using a theme with the Themify Builder (assuming the issue was causing a problem). The Themify Builder elements can "animate" onto the page as you scroll down (and I believe they are set to do that by default). This means that up until somebody scrolls down to that part of the page, those elements are hidden. The Fetch and Render process wasn't triggering the reveals, so almost everything below the fold (but above the footer) had '  style="visibility:hidden"  '

Disabling animations in the theme settings and clearing the cache fixed the problem.

[Lumina]

You would need to provide a link to the site for we Mozzers to look into this for you.