As of June of this year, Core Web Vitals has become a part of Google’s Page Experience ranking signals. Since it’s fairly new, there is a lot of misinformation and misunderstandings around the topic.
What are Core Web Vitals?
According to Ahrefs:
“Core Web Vitals are made up of 3 metrics that measure specific aspects of pagespeed. And these metrics include visual load, measured by Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), visual stability of your web pages, measured by Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and interactivity which is done with First Input Delay (FID).”
In this tutorial, you’ll learn what core web vitals are, why they’re important and how to optimize them for SEO.