Core Web Vitals optimization
Last year’s page experience update was arguably the biggest change for search in the last several years. Page experience, now quantifiable by Core Web Vitals is now officially a Google ranking factor. Core Web Vitals include the following performance metrics:

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): the amount of time it takes the largest content asset on the page to load.
First Input Delay (FID): how long it takes for your site to respond to a user’s first interaction with the page.
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): how many unexpected layout shifts occur during the lifespan of the page.
Of all the areas to direct your SEO investments in 2022, improving Core Web Vitals signals across your pages is bound to have the most tangible impact on your search engine performance. This will most likely require the assistance of skilled web developers, but these free tools will be essential to identify where your web pages need improvements:

Google Search Console: The Experience feature of your Google Search Console account will let you see which pages are meeting or not meeting Cor