Google has updated its Page Experience help documentation to clarify how Core Web Vitals metrics are used as ranking signals. Google also clarified that other page experience signals are not used directly for ranking purposes in Google Search.
What Google wrote. The updated documentation is located in the Documentation Ranking section and looks like this:
Core Web Vitals are used in our ranking system. We recommend that site owners achieve good Core Web Vitals to ensure success in search and an overall good user experience. Keep in mind that just because a report like Search Console's Core Web Vitals report or a third-party tool performs well doesn't guarantee that your page will rank higher in Google search results. please. A great page experience requires more than a Core Web Vitals score. These scores are meant to help you improve your site for your users as a whole, and trying to get a perfect score just for SEO reasons isn't a good use of your time.
Previously he said:
There are many aspects to page experience, including those listed on this page. Although not all aspects are directly used to inform rankings, they are worth noting because they generally coincide with search ranking success.
So we can see that Google is reiterating that Core Web Vitals are used in the Google search ranking system. However, Google added that “trying to get a perfect score solely for SEO reasons may not be the best use of your time.” This means that this score for ranking purposes is super lightweight compared to other ranking signals.
Google also added:
Other aspects of the page experience besides Core Web Vitals do not directly help your website rank higher in search results. However, your satisfaction with using the website may increase, which is generally consistent with the rewards our ranking system seeks. So it's still worth working to improve the overall page experience.
I used to say this.
We highly recommend that site owners achieve good Core Web Vitals to ensure search success and an overall good user experience. However, a great page experience involves more than core web vitals. Good statistics in Search Console's Core Web Vitals report or third-party Core Web Vitals reports do not guarantee good rankings.
Therefore, Google clearly states that other page experience signals are not used in Google's ranking system, at least not directly.
Core web vitals have been updated. As mentioned on Sunday, today the new INP metric has replaced FID as the core web vitals metric. That said, as mentioned above, these are very lightweight signals, so it may be best to focus your SEO efforts on other areas before focusing on Core Web Vitals. There is a gender.
why do we care? Several months ago, Google told us that the Google page experience is by no means a ranking “system” but is still considered a ranking “signal,” Google's search liaison Danny Sullivan said this morning. These statements caused a lot of confusion, so Google has clarified them in updated documentation.
Additionally, Google's John Mueller posted on LinkedIn this morning about Core Web Vitals, stating that they “will not skyrocket your site's rankings.”
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