What Are Core Web Vitals? (Plus, WordPress Optimization Tips)
Page experience has become an increasingly important aspect of how Google ranks websites in the SERPs. Page experience constitutes several factors but there are a set of core web vitals that must be accounted for or else your site’s rank will suffer. Understanding core web vitals will help you improve your site’s rank and its overall user experience. Today, we’ll be define what they are and propose ways to improve them on your website. Defining Core Web Vitals Everything we’ll be discussing here today relates directly to page speed and user interaction. That is, Google highly values page speed and user interaction in how it determines search engine ranking as it pertains to page experience. There are three key aspects that makeup the core web vitals. Let’s define each aspect now: Largest Contentful Paint First up is the largest contentful paint. It can be best described as the amount of time it takes for a page to load from the perspective of a real-life person browsing the Internet. So, the LCP is the time it takes from when a user clicks on a link to when the majority of the viewable page has loaded. Image source: Web.dev While other page…
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