Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Web Vitals Are Quality Signals That Rank A Site! & Measuring Tools

 Although not integrated yet these are future unified quality signals the Google is going to include in their vast set of metrics. Web vitals are issues which all webmasters should understand and enhance the quality with help of web developers. 

Mobile friendliness and good download speed are some of the metrics which search engines have time to time expressed emphasis. In fact making the site responsive is essential for better performance on the SERPs (Search Engine Result Page).   

User Experience is of utmost importance an no search engine is going to ignore this feature. UX is measured by your performance and is not limited few metrics but rather is holistic in nature. What makes visitors stick on to a site, spend time there and interact these signs of good onsite experience and how you bring about is through the character of your web page, attributes and smooth technical experience.     

Although on page content and attributes are most vital for ranking. These are assimilated on page and to be delivered smoothly without any glitch. Thus this gains importance as combination of factors.  A site with excellent contents relevant to the query takes eternity to down load has functions which are ill designed and coded is going to fail eventually.    

Thus the core web vitals revolve around the down load speed comprehensively, its visual stability and interactivity. Visual stability means the attributes like images, graphs, video and text are stable and do not shift here and there even going out of site. The third is interactivity the interactive functions should work well and do not fail whence most needed.      

There are tools that enable measurement of these aspects and aid in judging the page performance as:

Good (Green) 
Improvement Needed  (Orange) 
Poor (Red)

The webmasters should be able to access and analyse these vitals and engage the development team/ designer to fetch improvement. These parameters fall withing the purview of web developers.     

Get Familiar with some reports and tools here:

Chrome User Experience Reports 

This report is limited site download aspects but more metrics are going to be added. 

Search Console Web Vital Reports 

Poor page loading has severe effect on bounce rate in the negative and is a big turn off making the visitor to jump to another site promising the same answer. Read the report pertaining to these issue in the Google Search Console. 

For example if page load time increases from one second to three second the bounce rate would increase by thirty two percent. 

Although most seo specialists or webmasters would rely on the default character of their clients website those with good development support should scrutinize these vitals and get things improved. A substantial impact could be  assumed once these metric are fully loaded but time will tell. Hence we need to get familiar with web core vitals right now.    

After identification of issues in the rectification has to be done in the developers LAB. Here is an article on follow up of the Search Console Report.   

Some of the issues that can crop after analysis will improve understanding of technical aspect of a website. Well en good if you can provide the improvement else rely on the developers lab.  

SUGGESTIONS 

Eliminate render-blocking resources

Properly size images

Remove unused JavaScript

Serve images in next-gen formats

Reduce initial server response time

Accessibility

Elements with an ARIA `[role]` that require children to contain a specific `[role]` are missing some or all of those required children.

Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes

`[user-scalable="no"]` is used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element or the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is less than 5.

Preload key requests

Does not use HTTPS

You can use this site performance tool to evaluate your site and find suggestions. 

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Uday provides search engine optimization service for digital marketing. He provides website contents and content for authoritative links. 

He also teaches digital marketing in his home town Jabalpur. He can be contacted at: 

pateluday90@hotmail.com

09755089323          

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