{"id":139060,"date":"2022-02-23T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=139060"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T23:30:38","slug":"core-web-vitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/core-web-vitals\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Core Web Vitals (CWVs) & How To Improve Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
Core Web Vitals are 3 metrics that Google uses to measure a user\u2019s experience on a webpage by looking at visual load speed, visual stability, and interactivity \/ responsiveness. The metrics are Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and Interaction to Next Paint (INP). FID was replaced by Interaction to Next Paint (INP) on March 12th, 2024.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The data comes from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) which contains field data of Chrome users who opted to share their data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobile page experience and the included Core Web Vital metrics have officially been used for ranking pages since May 2021. Desktop signals have also been used as of February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The benchmarks for each category are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t
<\/th>Good<\/th>Needs improvement<\/th>Poor<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
LCP<\/strong><\/td><=2.5s<\/td>>2.5s - <=4s<\/td>>4s <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
INP<\/strong><\/td><=200ms<\/td>>200ms - <=500ms<\/td>>500ms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CLS<\/strong><\/td><=0.1<\/td>>0.1 - <=0.25<\/td>>0.25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s look at each Core Web Vital in more detail and how you can get your pages to pass the checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n