A while ago, Google tried to make the web faster and more consistent for mobile devices. Earlier this year, it introduced Core Web Vitals as a new benchmark for creating fast websites. Core Web Vitals has been playing a role in search rankings since May, and soon Chrome will be using those statistics to instantly label quality websites, starting with how fast they are.
In essence, Google will measure how well a site performs for you and other users, and use that data to assign a rank to the speed of that page. Performing parts will pick up this new label. If a page is brand new, and not enough people have tried to measure its performance, Google will examine data from similar sites and decide whether or not to label it based on its estimates. Google goes into great detail in its blog post, so if you want to know more you can read it at the source link below.
You can quickly access your own fast pages while running Chrome 85 Beta on your Android device. Just go to chrome: // flags / # context-menu-performance-info-and-remote-hints and enable the flag before restarting the app. The “fast page” label will now be displayed for qualifying websites if you long click on a link. Google recognizes that web developers need to make changes to comply with the Web Vitals standard, so it has updated its developer tools to help make this possible. For us, the end users, this means that we can expect the web to become faster and more consistent, which is always a good thing.
