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

Optimizing your Core Web Vitals

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

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Recent updates on our blog

Here's everything we've announced about Core Web Vitals on the Google Search Central blog:

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core Web Vitals to provide a suite of quality signals for web pages. Today, the Google Chrome team announced an upcoming change in the metrics for the Core Web Vitals to

May 10, 2023

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Helpful content generally offers a good page experience. That's why today, we've added a section on page experience to our guidance on creating helpful content and revised our help page about page experience. We think this

April 19, 2023

Thursday, November 4, 2021 At I/O 2021, we previewed our plans to bring page experience ranking to desktop. Today we're announcing more details, including the timeline for these changes. This work builds on top of the page experience update we rolled

November 4, 2021