Deciphering INP and Core Web Vitals

In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman are joined by Rick Viscomi from the Chrome Web Performance team to discuss the importance of understanding what users seek to accomplish and optimizing accordingly, rather than focusing solely on metric scores. Listen along as the Search team touches on metrics like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and the latest Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as pieces of the pie for a better user experience.

Resources:
Episode transcript → goo.gle/sotr071-transcript
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals → goo.gle/4ar2UW6
Page Experience & Google Search → goo.gle/49cEWgm
Rick on X (formerly Twitter)→ goo.gle/3PCe4ze
Core Web Vitals on Stack Overflow → goo.gle/4awMqvw
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
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Speaker: John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, Rick Viscomi

[@derekhobson4366]

Awesome pod! Some highlights: 1:03 - what are core web vitals? 3:39 - are speed and performance the same thing? 6:42 - for LCP, is it something every page should care about? 13:09 - what is INP? (and by association, FID) 15:05 - FID (INP predecessor) was overly permissive 16:40 - there are libraries you can add to better track/measure CWV including webvitals.js and long animations api 19:02 - why is my score so bad on pagespeed insights? 24:39-26:37 - yes, CWV is used for rankings in search, however best practice not to fixate on incremental gains 27:01 - ultimately, CWV is an accessibility issue and what is your site doing that's preventing the user from completing their journey.

[@MarkedMoneyTech]

Thanks for sharing your insight everyone!

[@entertainmentfun5706]

I received traffic form some specific region then i need to move our server on that region. In short server location matter in website speed improvement.

[@maximilianb.8418]

Just use a CDN

[@maximilianb.8418]

I love INP optimization. I've been doing it for 1-2 years now, even when it wasn't required to pass CWVs.

[@TravelRavi]

Impact on SEO?

[@maximilianb.8418]

@@TravelRavi tbh, could be more. But you shouldn't underestimate the UX and CRO impact.

[@theseoguyindia]

Hi have a website on wordpress CMS and I really don't have control over the theme functionality. Because of this the performance scores are not that good. What can we do in this situation?

[@B4Blogging]

hi google i m happy your update but still your algorithm cannot find gengune content and cannot rank faster

[@B4Blogging]

small niches site still manipulate ranking

[@SEOVikash]

True

[@guessedburrito]

can we have a tutorial how to implement the web vitals library with ga4

[@SEOVikash]

❤

[@AimanSaba-nt7cn]

When will this update end?

[@faizanalam3496]

Can you control algo face, eyes, nose, and mouth

[@AliceLee-fn4mz]

0:40 0:49 1:19

[@KailasSBhat]

🎧

[@abirroy3539]

Hello Google

[@zaelectricalltd1]

I needed some sleeping tablets ,now i dont.

[@maximilianb.8418]

Lol

[@AliceLee-fn4mz]

2:08