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March 2021

How to Improve Core Web Vital Scores

From May 2021, Google is using ‘Core Web Vitals’ as a brand new ranking signal. Google states that business owners should monitor and improve their scores to avoid damaging their organic SEO. In this blog, we will explain how to improve Core Web Vitals scores. To discover the specific issues affecting your users’ experience, we strongly advise having a Core Web Vitals audit.

How to Measure Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals are a new set of performance metrics that will become part of Google’s ranking algorithm from May 2021. In this blog, we explain how to measure Core Web Vitals scores. There are many ways website owners can find out their Core Web Vitals scores. This includes: PageSpeed Insights, Search Console, Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, Chrome UX Report, and the Web Vitals Extension.

Core Web Vitals: Google's Upcoming Ranking Changes

From 1st May 2021, Google will start judging your website based on a new set of performance metrics called Core Web Vitals. This initiative is focused around user experience and will become part of Google’s ranking algorithm. Failing them is bad, getting them right is a huge opportunity. Only 23% of businesses currently pass these tests consistently, so organic SEO will be negatively impacted for the large majority of companies.

Script Writing: A Crash Course on User Journey Selectors

User Journeys are a powerful tool for ensuring key processes across your site are working correctly. They follow a scripted set of instructions to interact with your pages like a human visitor does – and to identify issues as they come up. We offer a “Managed Service” for looking after your User Journey scripts, or you might prefer to use our script builder to write your own.