Over a 12 months and a half in the past, Google instructed us they’d be dropping the page experience report from Google Search Console within the “coming months.” Properly, it took many “coming months” for it to occur and now the web page expertise report is not obtainable inside Google Search Console.
Google introduced on LinkedIn, not X this time round, that the web page expertise report is being eliminated lastly from Google Search Console.
Google wrote:
We’re eradicating the Web page Expertise report in Search Console. That web page summarized knowledge from the Core Net Vitals and the HTTPS reviews, which is able to proceed to be obtainable as they’re.
We determined to take away this web page to scale back pointless litter inside Search Console and simplify navigating to this data. We nonetheless encourage you to give attention to offering a great web page expertise to your readers and monitoring the standing of your websites web page expertise within the CWV and HTTPS reviews.
Farewell, Web page Expertise report 👋
I want they’d simply say the explanation was as a result of SEOs obsessed about it as a rating issue when in actuality, it makes nearly zero influence on rating. However no, Google stated it was to “cut back pointless litter.” And sure, Google stated they “nonetheless encourage you to give attention to offering a great web page expertise to your readers.”
I not see the web page expertise report choice underneath “expertise” in Search Console – that is what it regarded like:
For some historical past, the unique page experience report launched in Search Console in April 2021 and was designed for simply cell pages. Google added a desktop model with the launch of the desktop model of the algorithm in January 2022. Now that it’s 2023, Google goes to take away that web page expertise report utterly and “will remodel into a brand new web page that hyperlinks to our normal steerage about web page expertise,” Danny Sullivan wrote.
In December 2023, Google can even drop Google Search Console’s cell usability report (initially launched in 2016), the mobile-friendly check device (launched in 2016) and mobile-friendly check API. Google stated this isn’t as a result of cell pleasant and usefulness shouldn’t be necessary, Google stated, “it stays essential for customers, who’re utilizing cell units greater than ever, and as such, it stays part of our web page expertise steerage. However within the practically ten years since we initially launched this report, many different sturdy sources for evaluating cell usability have emerged, together with Lighthouse from Chrome.”
There was plenty of wishy washy statements from Google on the importance of page experience and core internet vitals. Google stated We don’t confirm any of the things [page experience or core web vitals] as a direct ranking factor – now they affirm core internet vitals as a rating issue. This goes again to the confusion (which continues to be there regardless of Google not desirous to consider it) round how the changes to get helpful content guidance and page experience documentation from a 12 months or so in the past. Google shortly after that confusion instructed us web page expertise is a rating sign however not a rating system. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, stated again then, “It simply meant these weren’t rating *techniques* however as a substitute indicators utilized by different techniques.”
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
