Understanding your application's Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores.

Core Web Vitals influence how your application's pages rank on Google. Here, we'll dive into what they are, how they’re measured, and how your users and search ranking are impacted by them.

Malte Ubl is the CTO of Vercel and former Director of Google Search responsible for shipping the “Page Experience” ranking rollout—which heavily utilizes Core Web Vitals. That said, everything written here is publicly documented and linked where appropriate.

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Link to heading How Google ranks based on page speed

Your site’s ranking in Google Search is impacted by Google’s page experience ranking system, which evaluates the performance of your site based on Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics.

Google collects Core Web Vitals by observing how real users interact with your…