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What are Core Web Vitals and what do they cover?
What are the Core Web Vitals indicators and what tools should we use to analyze them?
How to improve your Core Web Vitals?
You will find answers to these questions in today's episode of the SEO Podcast!
In November 2020, Google announced the introduction of a new ranking factor based on three basic web metrics called "Core Web Vitals". A lot of time has passed since this announcement, but I still come across websites whose owners either slept through this information or downplayed it and left their site without proper technical optimization. In today's episode of the SEO Podcast, I will tell you how to analyze your site and check to what extent it is optimized for the metrics that are taken into account by Google's search engine algorithms to evaluate your site, as well as how to improve their values to an acceptable level by Google. Let's start!
What are Core Web Vitals and what do they cover?
Core Web Vitals (abbreviated as "CWV") are basic web metrics that were officially introduced by Google as one of the ranking factors in the search engine. The purpose of their introduction was to standardize websites on the Internet in terms of user experience (abbreviated as "UX"), based on the time and speed of their loading, interactivity and the so-called visual stability, i.e., sliding elements or additional elements displayed to users on their screens. If you don't understand what I mean, I will sum it up in a few simple words: Google strives to ensure that websites provide users with a smooth and trouble-free use of them, hence the introduction of metrics measuring loading speed, as well as analysis of loaded resources was required. And this for both the desktop and mobile versions of each website.
The standards that Google introduces from above force us to adapt our services to load faster and optimize them for the resources that are loading. Thanks to this, Google will be able to analyze websites and online stores faster, and browsers will be able to render all visual elements that are found in them faster. In the back of our minds, we should always remember that Google's problems with indexing services have been visible for a long time, and SEO specialists are doing their best to index their clients' websites and the positioning links created in sponsored articles and other external sources in the search engine as soon as possible. And here the circle closes.