Smashing Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024. Because INP measures actual user interactions, it can only be monitored using a real user monitoring (RUM) tool. What can affect INP?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. That’s what we’re looking at next. Let’s walk through the process.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Writing a hand-spun analytics tracking dashboard isn’t what my clients really want to pay me for, so I’ll drop in the ol’ Google Analytics script and maybe never think of it again. Monitoring The Main Thread If you’re like me, I immediately reach for DevTools and open the Lighthouse tab when I need to look into a site’s performance.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? And when discussing the two types of data, we’re actually talking about what is called real-user monitoring , or RUM for short. Google focuses on the 75th percentile of users in the CrUX data when reporting core web vitals metrics.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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