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There’s been a big buzz in the industry in the past year since Google announced that Core Web Vitals are going to be an official Google ranking factor this month. So what are they and how do we assess them?
Simply speaking, they are a set of 3 specific factors that Google considers important in the user experience of your website:
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP):
The time it takes to load a page’s main content. An ideal LCP measurement is 2.5 seconds or less.
First Input Delay (FID):
The time it takes for a page to become interactive. An ideal measurement is less than 100 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS):
The amount of unexpected layout shift of visual page content. An ideal measurement is less than 0.1.
Our user experience team at BlueSky Commerce has always considered these benchmarks in every UI / UX webpage performance audit we perform. Now, Google is placing more emphasis on these specific metrics and weighing them toward the overall “Page Experience”. The other factors that Google considers important for a good page experience are HTTPS, mobile-friendly, secure browsing, and no intrusive interstitial pop-ups (pop-up ads).
While Core Web Vitals will now be a significant ranking factor, it is still important to provide high-quality content that meets search queries.
Google states:
“A good page experience doesn’t override having great, relevant content. However, in cases where there are multiple pages that have similar content, page experience becomes much more important for visibility in Search.”
If there are 2 pages with equally strong content, the page with a better page experience signal will rank higher in search results.
Google has a variety of tools that can be used to measure Core Web Vitals, such as:
Your site should load quickly so that users can see and interact with it.
On login, sign-up, or other pages where users need to quickly input something, the time until they can do that needs to be quick.
You want your elements to be stable and not move around when a user loads the page. If elements move around when someone is trying to click on something, it creates a frustrating user experience.
Being aware of these upcoming changes, we have already begun applying the knowledge cultivated from Google to improve our own and our client’s website scores. The key is to first, assess where you are today and what your website health is, and how it could impact your future search rankings. Based on these findings, implementing even incremental changes can make a significant difference in your results.
We extensively administer UI, UX, Performance, SEO, and Accessibility Compliance audits on an ongoing basis to the sites that we maintain to stay ahead of the ranking signals. We have been able to increase total page scores by a minimum of 10%, in some cases up to a 58% improvement!
Need help identifying your current website health?
Through May and June, we are offering a free “Pulse Report” to help you identify your overall site health and we will provide three changes you can make immediately that will improve your overall scores.
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