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Understanding Core Web Vitals and Google search results
Core Web Vitals is a set of metrics that measure real-world
user experience for loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability of the page. We highly recommend site
owners achieve good Core Web Vitals for success with Search and to ensure a great user experience generally. This,
along with other page experience aspects, aligns with what our core ranking systems seek to reward. Learn more in
Understanding page
experience in Google Search results.
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