Wednesday, May 10, 2023
In early 2020, Google's Chrome Team introduced the Core Web Vitals to provide a suite of quality signals for web pages. Today, the Google Chrome team announced an upcoming change in the metrics for the Core Web Vitals to better evaluate the quality of a webpage's user experience. In this article, we'll explore this change and what it means for Google Search and site owners.
A better responsiveness metric
One of the Core Web Vitals metrics, First Input Delay (FID), measures responsiveness, but there are known limitations of FID. This led the Chrome team t