Core web vitals
pay attention. Improve. Don’t panic.
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Jeff Cohen
VP Of Marketing
Ian Lurie
Founder, Portent
Digital Marketing Nerd
Performance has always mattered
Core web vitals
Coming in May June
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Google will incorporate new page
experience signals into the algorithm
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Speed. Load time, rendering time
Interactivity. Layout shift, input delay
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Speed. First Contentful Paint (FCP)
Time it takes to deliver and display the
first “chunk” of content
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Howlong before this appeared?
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Speed. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
Time it takes to deliver and display the
largest “chunk” of content.
Largest = Real estate, not file size
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Background image occupies
the mostrealestate
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Interactivity. First Input Delay (FID)
Delay between a click and a visual response
How long after I click this…
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Search
…Do I see this?
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Interactivity. Cumulative Layout Shift
Page wiggles
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Read between the lines…
how much will Core Web Vitals Matter?
https://tinyurl.com/5awrjrhe
Similar Updates. Mobile-First
Slow rollout.
Small impact at first.
Big long-term impact.
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Similar Updates. https
I have no #(@*!ng idea.
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Sites on the margins got ed on
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Great sites got a boost
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Then impact increased over time
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1. Content
2. Crawl visibility
3. Authority
4. Core Web Vitals
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Get off the margins & steadily improve.
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Tools
Measure: Google Search Console
Oy.
Measure: Pagespeed Insights
OK, but what’s “Good?”
Themargins(getoff ‘em)
Stuff to work on
Compress your images. I beg you.
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Squoosh.app
Use a CDN
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Cloudflare
Amazon Cloudfront
KeyCDN
Fastly
...
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Get Nerdy…
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Reduce blocking payloads
Check rendering
Check script execution
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Performance has always mattered
Don’t panic. Improve.
Great overview of SEO and Core Web Vitals
(From Google)
https://tinyurl.com/5yfsdsv3
Nerdier Guide to Core Web Vitals
(From Jamie Indigo)
https://tinyurl.com/3x8fu36n
Presented by
Ian lurie
ian@ianlurie.com
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Thisdeck (and links): https://tinyurl.com/cwv-xcart
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Core Web Vitals and SEO: Don't Panic. Improve.