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Search Engine Journal recently released an article stating that Google has confirmed that Core Web Vitals are becoming ranking signals for search results in May 2021.

Google makes many changes each year to how they rank sites. Consistently, they acquaint new changes with their algorithm. They declare ranking factor changes occasionally, specifically when they need to energize website admins to make changes to their webpages.

What are Core Web Vitals?

Google will measure the Core Web Vitals score of your website pages alongside the other 200+ ranking factors to push your site up to the top level. 

Now, you may be wondering what's this ranking factor, and how your site can accomplish the ideal Web Vitals Score. Well, Core Web Vitals are a bunch of page experience measurements that analyze the page load speed, interactivity, and visual stability. 

Largest Contentful Paint – The time it takes for your page’s main content to load. It should come in under 2.5 seconds.

First Input Delay – The amount of time it takes for a page to allow input. That should happen in under 100 ms.

Cumulative Layout Shift – The amount that the page “moves around” after loading. That number should be lower than 0.1.

Where and when it is going to affect rankings?

This will affect all regular search results through mobile and desktop, based on specific standards. One important point is that Core Web Vitals are going to become the criteria in order to appear in Google's Top Stories.

In light of COVID-19, they have pushed back the arrival of this update, given the extra time to web users to update their sites properly.

How to measure and achieve a good score of Core Web Vitals?

The main thing you need to do is look in the Search Console. They have one report there — Core Web Vitals. They will reveal to you every one of your URLs that they have in their file, and if whether they're poor, needs improvement, or great.

If you have URLs that are poor or need improvement, then you need to explore and discover how you can improve those pages. Each report in Search Console connects to a report in Page Speed Insights. This is presumably the main instrument you need to use to determine your issues to have Core Web Vitals. You may require a web designer or developer who is a specialist in page speed or another person who can easily handle these issues in case you're not specialized. Our team of SEO experts can help ensure that your website is meeting these proper protocols.