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Core Web Vitals
Three measurements Google uses to judge how a page feels to use: how fast it appears, how quickly it responds, how much it shifts.
What core Web Vitals means in practice
They are loading, interactivity and visual stability, measured from real visitors rather than in a laboratory. The scores feed into ranking, though not heavily enough to rescue a page with nothing to say or to sink a page that answers the question best.
Where they genuinely matter is conversion. Every one of the three describes a specific way a page annoys someone: waiting for it to appear, tapping something that does not respond, or tapping the wrong thing because the layout moved under a thumb. Fixing them is usually a matter of image sizes, fonts and how much third-party script the page loads, rather than a rebuild.
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