# Understanding Core Web Vitals and Google search results | Google Search Central

# Understanding Core Web Vitals and Google search results


[Core Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals#core-web-vitals) is a set of metrics that measure real-world
user experience for loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability of the page. We highly recommend site
owners achieve good Core Web Vitals for success with Search and to ensure a great user experience generally. This,
along with other page experience aspects, aligns with what our core ranking systems seek to reward. Learn more in
[Understanding page
experience in Google Search results](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/page-experience).

## Core Web Vitals metrics

- [Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)](https://web.dev/articles/lcp): Measures loading performance. To provide a good user experience, strive to have [LCP occur within
  the first 2.5 seconds](https://web.dev/articles/lcp#what-is-a-good-lcp-score) of the page starting to load.
- [Interaction To Next Paint (INP)](https://web.dev/articles/inp): Measures responsiveness. To provide a good user experience, strive to have an [INP of less than 200 milliseconds](https://web.dev/articles/inp#good-score).
- [Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)](https://web.dev/articles/cls): Measures visual stability. To provide a good user experience, strive to have a [CLS score of
  less than 0.1](https://web.dev/articles/cls#what-is-a-good-cls-score).

## Optimizing your Core Web Vitals


Here are some resources that can help you measure, monitor, and optimize your Core Web Vitals:

- Check the [Core Web
  Vitals report in Search Console](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9205520). This shows how your pages perform.
- Learn more about [Core
  Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/learn-core-web-vitals), a guide about Core Web Vitals, including how to measure, debug, improve and best practices.
- Learn about the different tools that can help you [measure
  and report Core Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals-tools). These tools measure LCP, INP, and CLS.

## Recent updates on our blog


Here's everything we've announced about Core Web Vitals on the
[Google Search Central blog](https://developers.google.com/search/blog):