Google Search Console Update 2020 - Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals report replaces Speed report in Google Search Console

Google has quietly swapped out the speed report in Google Search Console with the new Core Web Vitals report. If you are trying to find the speed report, don’t panic, it has just changed names and is using the new web vitals engine to power it.

This is what the report looks like; yes, it looks pretty similar to the speed version. Google has not announced what has changed exactly with this report, but it does show different metrics. Here is what it looks like now:

• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): measures loading performance. To provide a good user experience, LCP should occur within 2.5 seconds of when the page first starts loading.

• First Input Delay (FID): measures interactivity. To provide a good user experience, pages should have a FID of less than 100 milliseconds.

• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): measures visual stability. To provide a good user experience, pages should maintain a CLS of less than 0.1.

Google said that this report is based on three metrics: LCP, FID, and CLS. If a URL does not have a minimum amount of reporting data for any of these metrics, it is omitted from the report. Once a URL has a threshold amount of data for any metric, the page status is the status of its most poorly performing metric.