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Core Web Vitals: the three numbers, and the thresholds Google calls good

Loading, responsiveness and visual stability, each with one number. Here are the targets and where to read yours.

Author: HD5 min read

Table of contents
  1. Key takeaways
  2. The three
  3. Where they matter
  4. Read yours
  5. See it on your own site
  6. Sources

The three#

  • Largest Contentful Paint: when the main content has loaded. Good is within 2.5 seconds.
  • Interaction to Next Paint: how fast the page responds to a tap or click. Good is 200 milliseconds or less.
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: how much the layout jumps. Good is 0.1 or less.

Those thresholds are from web.dev's Web Vitals page, linked below.

Where they matter#

Google's Core Web Vitals page highly recommends good scores for success with Search, and says they align with what its core ranking systems seek to reward. A fast page with a poor answer still loses.

Read yours#

The Core Web Vitals report in Search Console groups your pages by status. Start with the page templates that carry the most traffic.

See it on your own site#

The free website check reads a site you name and reports what holds its pages back, with no account and no card. It changes nothing on your site.

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Sources#