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Understanding Core Web Vitals and Google search results

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.

Core Web Vitals metrics

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures loading performance. To provide a good user experience, strive to have LCP occur within the first 2.5 seconds of the page starting to load.
Interaction To Next Paint (INP): Measures responsiveness. To provide a good user experience, strive to have an INP of less than 200 milliseconds.
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Measures visual stability. To provide a good user experience, strive to have a CLS score of less than 0.1.

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. This shows how your pages perform.
Learn more about 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. These tools measure LCP, INP, and CLS.

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