What are Google Core Web Vitals?

Whitney discusses Google's new announcement on its Core Web Vitals, a set of metrics that focus on speed, responsiveness, and visual stability to measure how user-friendly a website is. These changes will not happen before next year and Google stated that website owners will have a 6-month notice before they're implemented, but digital publishers can begin to work on improving their sites now. The three metrics are as follows: Loading: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Interactivity: First Input Delay (FID) Visual Stability: Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) A full guide on multiple CSS and JavaScript codes to help publishers best format their images and other content so it loads smoothly is available here: https://itnext.io/how-to-stop-content-jumping-when-images-load-7c915e47f576 Or, you can wrap your images with this JavaScript code to provide enough padding to prevent pages jumping as they load: .wrapper { position: relative; height: 0; /* Formula is: (height / width * 100%) */ padding-top: calc(360 / 360 * 100%); } .wrapper__img { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } To read about Google's Web Core Vitals and ways to make your content and images load formatted properly, check out our blog: https://www.ezoic.com/how-to-optimize-core-web-vitals-in-google-search-console/ https://www.ezoic.com/page-speed-statistics-2020/ https://www.ezoic.com/speed-lazy-loading-images-serving-next-gen-formats/ https://www.ezoic.com/serve-images-in-next-gen-formats-using-wordpress/ https://www.ezoic.com/site-speed/ Ezoic is an innovative platform for intelligent websites. Ezoic Explains is a weekly video series that provides information, tools, trends, and know-how to those who write content, own a website, or operate in the digital media world. Blog: https://www.ezoic.com/blog Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ezoic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ezoic-inc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ezoic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ezoicplatform/