Web vitals

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Overview

In 2020 Google announce what they called Web Vitals. It is an initiative to provide unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web.

What is Core Web Vitals?

Core web vital is the subset of Web Vitals. Google actually simplify the process for site owners both tech-savvy and newbies to measure the performance of their websites in real time. They provide the set of tools that can help assess user experiences by giving a certain score.

The current set for 2020 focuses on three aspects of the user experience—loading, interactivity, and visual stability—and includes the following metrics (and their respective thresholds):

Why you need to adapt?

If you want to rank in search engine you need to pass the web core vitals. It is a standard now and Google’s algorithm is getting smarter on enforcing and reporting poor scores.

How to achieve 75% percentile?

Pay attention to the recommendation set by running your website against tools like Pagespeed, Gmetrix, Kingdom and Web.dev.