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

• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures
  loading performance. To provide a good user experience, strive to have
  LCP occur within
  the first 2.5 seconds of the page starting to load.
• Interaction To Next Paint (INP):
  Measures responsiveness. To provide a good user experience, strive to have
  an INP of less than 200 milliseconds.
• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Measures
  visual stability. To provide a good user experience, strive to have a
  CLS score of
  less than 0.1.

Optimizing your Core Web Vitals

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

• Check the Core Web
  Vitals report in Search Console. This shows how your pages perform.
• Learn more about Core
  Web Vitals, a guide about Core Web Vitals, including
  how to measure, debug, improve and best practices.
• Learn about the different tools that can help you
  measure
  and report Core Web Vitals. These tools measure LCP, INP, and CLS.

Recent updates on our blog

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