{"id":103412,"date":"2021-07-29T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bayswaterhill.com\/gaagency\/en-blog-googles-core-web-vitals-update-is-out-what-now\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:19:11","slug":"googles-core-web-vitals-update-is-out-what-now","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/ga.agency\/en\/blog\/googles-core-web-vitals-update-is-out-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Core Web Vitals update is out: what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After announcing that Core Web Vitals would have been brought into search <\/span><\/a>back in November 10, 2020, Google finally released its dreaded Page Experience Update in two rounds, one finished on June 12<\/span><\/a>, another one rolled out more quickly, effectively completing the much-anticipated core web vitals update on July 7, 2021<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been much chatter and a fair deal of panic among SEO professionals and website owners about the potential impact of this update – one that Google bothered announcing in advance – on the search performance of websites. Almost one month in, we can draw some conclusions, debunk some myths, and reduce panic and confusion relative to the June-July 2021 Core Web Vitals update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>What are core web vitals?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Core Web Vitals are three performance KPIs against which Google measures the overall user experience quality. Core Web Vitals include loading speed, user interaction, and visual stability. The three KPIs are named Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core Web Vitals are nothing new, as Google has been stressing the necessity of providing the best possible user experience for a long time coming, switching to mobile-first indexing from March 2021<\/span><\/a>, and providing their own tool to diagnose Page Experience and speed issues in PageSpeed Insights. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Google is giving more and more importance to UX and speed performance of websites. Core Web Vitals are part of a more extensive set of indicators Google uses to provide Page Experience an overall score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To help you diagnose and act on your Core Web Vitals score, Google added a Core Web Vitals <\/em>tab in the experience<\/strong> drop-down in Google Search Console. There, you can view your Core Web Vitals performance, the number of URLs that have a “poor<\/em>” and “needs improvement”<\/em> score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great, now you found what Google thinks of your website. It\u2019s time to understand a bit more about why your website is failing and what you can do to prevent it.
Let’s look at how Google evaluates your website and understand each metric better:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Largest Contentful Paint<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, Largest Contentful Paint measures how long it takes for the largest content element (usually the most important)in your URLs to become visible. The final score will be the average time it takes to render the page’s main content; hence, the biggest factor influencing largest contentful paint is typically loading speed. A sloppy server, render-blocking resources, slow load time, and client-side rendering are often culprits if you are failing the Core Web Vitals audit for a bad LCP. LCP is related to First Contentful Paint<\/span><\/a>, which measures the amount of time it takes for a user to see the first DOM content on screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google scores Largest Contentful Paint in the following categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n