A Complete Guide To Core Web Vitals and How It Will Affect Your Rankings

What are the Core Web VitalsGoogle has recently released a set of factors collectively known as Core Web Vitals that will be considered as important ranking factors. Bear in mind that there are over 200 signals that Google considers for a SERP ranking so Core Web Vitals will be an important metric but not the only one.

Core Web Vitals are a set of page experience metrics related to page speed, responsiveness, and visual stability. The intent of measuring these metrics is to make sure that the website speed and technical performance are up to some benchmarks and the user experience offered by the website is positive for the end-user.

Core Web Vitals Consists of three metrics

1. Largest Contentful Paint2) First Input Delay3) Cumulative Shift Layout

Understanding Core Web Vitals

1. Largest Contentful PaintLCP generally measures how quickly the page loads or at least some elements of the page. This is affected by render time, the large size of the images, background videos, and text in the viewport along with plugins and scripts on the page.

Its aim is to measure when the page’s main contents have completed loading and are available to the user. The lower the LCP score, the better. A Fast LCP allows the user to access the content quickly. Because it’s a metric that measures perceived load speed. LCP is available in both field data and lab data.

LCP is the single largest visible element loaded in the viewport.

How to See LCPIn-Page Site Speed, the LCP part will be specified in the Diagnostics section. For the tester page, the LCP is our featured image on the blog spot.

Important ConsiderationWhile the page is loading, the biggest text block or image element may change and the most recent candidate used when checking the LCP.

How to review your LCP ScoreGood: 2.5s 4s (more than 4 Second)

How to Improve Your LCP Scoreyou have multiple options to improve your LCP Score, for example, optimize critical rendering path, CSS, and images.

Here are some ways to improve your site’s LCP Score and ultimately rank higher on search engines.

Optimize your server

Route user to a nearby CDN

Cache assets

Server HTML pages cache first

Establish third-party connections early

Use signed exchanges(SXGs)

Reduce CSS blocking time

Reduce Javascript Blocking time

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Nishant Shah - Lead Marketing Analyst IT Path Solutions is one of the leading web and mobile app development companies.