Web Vitals (https://web.dev/vitals/) is an initiative by Google to provide a great user experience on the web with measurable quality signals. Site owners should not have to be performance gurus in order to understand the quality of experience they are delivering to their users. The Web Vitals initiative aims to simplify the landscape, and help sites focus on the metrics that matter most.
Core Web Vitals are the subset of Web Vitals that apply to all web pages and each of the Core Web Vitals represents a part of user experience that is measurable in the field. Site owners should pay attention, because an upcoming Search ranking change incorporates these page experience metrics (https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-experience.html).
This talk explores how WordPress developers and website owners can check, monitor and improve web vitals.
Take aways:
- What are Web Vitals and why do they matter.
- How to measure and monitor Web Vitals.
- Fine tuning WordPress for Web Vitals.