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What are Google's Core Web Vitals?

What are Google's Core Web Vitals?

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What are Google's Core Web Vitals?

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- Making your website fast will help make your website successful. It's estimated that for every additional second your website takes to load, 20% of your visitors will just leave. The worst part is that you won't even know that they left since your analytics program wouldn't even have kicked in yet. Site speed is a silent traffic killer. But beyond keeping people on your site, site speed is also an important part of ranking well. Google announced in 2020 that there would be a set of speed metrics called the Core Web Vitals that would be a part of their ranking algorithm in 2021 and beyond. What's nice about this is now we have a very clear set of metrics to optimize our sites against. Google considers these metrics to be a part of their page experience score, which is basically how Google interprets how usable your website actually is. The three Core Web Vitals are, Largest Contentful Paint, or LCP, this measures the loading performance of the page. Interaction to Next Paint, or INP,…

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