[null,null,[],[[["\u003cp\u003eGoogle Search will incorporate Core Web Vitals and other page experience signals as a ranking factor.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThese changes are expected to roll out gradually, starting no sooner than 2021, with at least six months' notice before full implementation.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003ePage experience signals measure how users perceive the experience of interacting with a web page, encompassing aspects like load time, interactivity, and visual stability.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eGoogle will update the eligibility criteria for the Top Stories feature in mobile search, removing the AMP requirement and including page experience as a ranking factor.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eWhile page experience is important for ranking, Google still prioritizes pages with the best and most relevant content.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["Google Search will introduce a new ranking signal combining Core Web Vitals (speed, responsiveness, visual stability) with existing page experience signals (mobile-friendliness, HTTPS-security, etc.). This will provide a holistic view of user experience, and will become a ranking factor for the Top Stories feature on mobile. AMP will no longer be required for Top Stories eligibility. These changes will roll out next year, and developers can use updated tools like Lighthouse and Search Console to optimize their sites. INP has replaced FID as part of Core Web Vitals.\n"],null,["# Evaluating page experience for a better web\n\nThursday, May 28, 2020\n| It's been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore). Check out our updated documentation on [page experience](/search/docs/appearance/page-experience).\n\n\nThrough both [internal studies](https://ai.googleblog.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html) and\n[industry research](https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/introducing-web-vitals-essential-metrics.html),\nusers show they prefer sites with a great page experience. In recent years, Search has added a\nvariety of user experience criteria, such as\n[how quickly pages load](/search/blog/2018/01/using-page-speed-in-mobile-search) and\n[mobile-friendliness](/search/mobile-sites), as factors for ranking results. Earlier\nthis month, the Chrome team announced\n[Core Web\nVitals](https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/introducing-web-vitals-essential-metrics.html), a set of metrics related to speed, responsiveness and visual stability, to help\nsite owners measure user experience on the web.\n\n\nToday, we're building on this work and providing an early look at an upcoming Search ranking\nchange that incorporates these page experience metrics. We will introduce a new signal that\ncombines Core Web Vitals with our existing signals for page experience to provide a holistic\npicture of the quality of a user's experience on a web page.\n\n\nAs part of this update, we'll also incorporate the page experience metrics into our ranking\ncriteria for the Top Stories feature in Search on mobile, and remove the AMP requirement from\nTop Stories eligibility. Google continues to support AMP, and will continue to link to AMP\npages when available. We've also updated our developer tools to help site owners optimize their\npage experience.\n\n\n**A note on timing** : We recognize many site owners are rightfully placing their focus on\nresponding to the effects of COVID-19. The ranking changes described in this post will not\nhappen before next year, and we will provide at least six months notice before they're rolled\nout. We're providing the tools now to get you started (and because site owners have\nconsistently requested to know about ranking changes as early as possible), **but there is no\nimmediate need to take action**.\n\nAbout page experience\n---------------------\n\n\nThe [page experience](/search/docs/appearance/page-experience) signal measures aspects of\nhow users perceive the experience of interacting with a web page. Optimizing for these factors\nmakes the web more delightful for users across all web browsers and surfaces, and helps sites\nevolve towards user expectations on mobile. We believe this will contribute to business success\non the web as users grow more engaged and can transact with less friction.\n\n\n[Core Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals#core-web-vitals) are a set of real-world,\nuser-centered metrics that quantify key aspects of the user experience. They measure dimensions\nof web usability such as load time, interactivity, and the stability of content as it loads (so\nyou don't accidentally tap that button when it shifts under your finger - how annoying!).\n\n\nWe're combining the signals derived from Core Web Vitals with our existing Search signals for\npage experience, including\n[mobile-friendliness](/search/blog/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search),\n[HTTPS-security](/search/blog/2016/11/heres-to-more-https-on-web), and\n[intrusive interstitial guidelines](/search/blog/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on),\nto provide a holistic picture of page experience. Because we continue to work on identifying\nand measuring aspects of page experience, we plan to incorporate more page experience signals\non a yearly basis to both further align with evolving user expectations and increase the\naspects of user experience that we can measure.\n\n\nPage experience ranking\n-----------------------\n\n\nGreat page experiences enable people to get more done and engage more deeply; in contrast, a\nbad page experience could stand in the way of a person being able to find the valuable\ninformation on a page. By adding page experience to the hundreds of signals that Google\nconsiders when ranking search results, we aim to help people more easily access the information\nand web pages they're looking for, and support site owners in providing an experience users\nenjoy.\n\n\nFor some developers, understanding how their sites measure on the Core Web Vitals---and addressing\nnoted issues---will require some work. To help out, we've [updated](https://web.dev/articles/vitals-tools)\npopular developer tools such as Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights to surface Core Web Vitals\ninformation and recommendations, and Google Search Console provides a dedicated\n[report](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520) to help site owners\nquickly identify opportunities for improvement. We're also working with external tool developers\nto bring Core Web Vitals into their offerings.\n\n\nWhile all of the components of page experience are important, we will prioritize pages with the\nbest information overall, even if some aspects of page experience are subpar. A good page\nexperience doesn't override having great, relevant content. However, in cases where there are\nmultiple pages that have similar content, page experience becomes much more important for\nvisibility in Search.\n\nPage experience and the mobile Top Stories feature\n--------------------------------------------------\n\n\nThe mobile Top Stories feature is a premier fresh content experience in Search that currently\nemphasizes AMP results, which have been optimized to exhibit a good page experience. Over the\npast several years, Top Stories has\n[inspired](https://blog.amp.dev/2018/03/08/standardizing-lessons-learned-from-amp/)\nnew thinking about the ways we could promote better page experiences across the web.\n\n\nWhen we roll out the page experience ranking update, we will also update the eligibility\ncriteria for the Top Stories experience. AMP will no longer be necessary for stories to be\nfeatured in Top Stories on mobile; it will be open to any page. Alongside this change, page\nexperience will become a ranking factor in Top Stories, in addition to the many factors\nassessed. As before, pages must meet the\n[Google News content\npolicies](https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/6204050) to be eligible. Site owners who currently publish pages as AMP, or with an AMP\nversion, will see no change in behavior -- the AMP version will be what's linked from Top\nStories.\n\nSummary\n-------\n\n\nWe believe user engagement will improve as experiences on the web get better---and that by\nincorporating these new signals into Search, we'll help make the web better for everyone. We\nhope that sharing our roadmap for the page experience updates and launching supporting tools\nahead of time will help the diverse ecosystem of web creators, developers, and businesses to\nimprove and deliver more delightful user experiences.\n\n\nPlease stay tuned for our future updates that will communicate more specific guidance on the\ntiming for these changes to come into effect. As always, if you have any questions or feedback,\nvisit our [webmaster\nforums](https://support.google.com/webmasters/community/).\n\n\nPosted by [Sowmya Subramanian](https://twitter.com/sosubram), Director of Engineering for Search Ecosystem\n\n*** ** * ** ***\n\nUpdates\n-------\n\n- **Update on June 15, 2021**: The page experience update is rolling out to all users globally. It will be complete by the end of August 2021.\n- **Update on August 4, 2021** : [Clarified that Safe Browsing isn't used as a ranking signal](/search/blog/2021/08/simplifying-the-page-experience-report). Safe Browsing systems continue to play an important role to keep users of Google Search safe, and any flags will continue to be surfaced in Search Console outside of Page Experience report.\n- **Update on January 31, 2024** : [Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace FID](https://web.dev/blog/inp-cwv-march-12) as a part of Core Web Vitals on March 12, 2024.\n- **Update on March 12, 2024** : [Interaction to Next Paint (INP) has replaced FID](https://web.dev/blog/inp-cwv-launch) as a part of Core Web Vitals."]]