Core Web Vitals: A guide to improving page speed

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The Core Web Vitals for user experience are as follows: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). By Kristi Hines.

Improving your LCP, FID, and CLS could positively affect your users and your rankings on mobile search results pages. An increase of even one position on the first page of search results can result in a sizable increase in traffic. The same goes for user experience. If you can improve user experience, it can result in a sizable increase in business from positive word of mouth referrals, reviews, and repeated business.

The article is split into:

  • What are the core web vitals?
  • Tools to measure core web vitals
  • Why core web vitals matter
  • How to improve core web vitals
  • How to improve largest contentful paint

Google offers several tips for optimizing your website and improving the Largest Contentful Paint metric for your web pages. Start with your web server. If you are experiencing serious delays, it may be time to upgrade your web hosting from a shared to a dedicated server. Good read!

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