Core Web Vitals Assessment Issue

Google Update for Improved Site Speed and Better User Experience

Core Web Vitals Issue – Google Update for Improved Site Speed and Better User Experience

Core Web Vitals Assessment is a major Google Update to enhance the user experience by evaluating website page speed based on user experience and website responsiveness. It considers mainly three metrics/parameters to measure a site’s speed and user experience.

1. Largest Contentful paint (LCP) – It is a page-load metric used to identify page load speed for better user experience by calculating the loading speed of the largest contentful module or element on a website’s page.
2. First Input Delay (FID) – This is calculated based on user interaction with the website for the first time, i.e. the first time a user clicks on a website’s element such as a button or link to view and how much time the browser takes to respond to the user move.
3. Cumulative Layout Shift – It refers to the shifting of the elements of a website after loading, calculating the cumulative time all the shifting elements took within 500ms of the user interaction with the website.

If your website passes all the three above-mentioned measures, then your website is considered to pass the Core Web Vitals assessment.

You can check your website score for Core Web Vitals assessment

What are the tools to measure Core Web Vital issues and improve website score and ranking on Google?

1. To have a deep website report, I would recommend going for Core Web Vital assessments on – web.dev/measure/ tool and clear your error one by one.
2. Google Page Speed Insights – In addition to displaying the result of the CWV assessment, this tool also checks site speed score.
3. Chrome DevTools – web.dev/vitals
4. Google Search Console – This helps you to know which all URLs are affected and fail to pass the assessment.
5. The Web Vitals Chrome extension – An extension that keeps on updating you with the latest score on CWV metrics i.e. LCP, FID, CLS for a particular page.

Common errors and development issues with the website that you need to check and update to pass the Core Web Vitals Assessment.

1. Make use of AMP pages – Accelerated mobile pages for fast loading.
2. Eliminate render-blocking resources.
3. Minify JavaScript.
4. Remove unused CSS.
5. Serve images in next-gen formats – Image formats – JPEG2000, JPEG XR, WEB P – Google has been updating it algorithms for a long time related to these Image formats and now has made these image formats a vital part of website speed score and ranking.
6. Reduce initial server response time.
7. Buttons should have an accessible name.
8. Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes.
9. Form elements should have associated labels.
10. Displays images shouldn’t be of inappropriate size.
11. Check if any Browser errors are logged to the console.
12. Tap targets are not sized appropriately.
13. Background and foreground colors should have a sufficient contrast ratio.
14. Links should not have a discernible name.