Google is launching a new Web Vitals metric with Chrome 85 beta – one that can tell you if a page you visit will not load forever. The new metric will provide URLs and URLs from the same website “that have historically met all the metric thresholds for the Core Web Vitals or more than” a “Fast page” label. Links that earn the label have historically been fast for most users, although Chrome can also evaluate them on a host-by-host basis if they are still new or if they are not as popular.
The Fast Page Label will appear in the context menu when you long press on any link on Chrome 85 Beta for Android. It’s just starting to roll, but you can enable it manually by going to chrome: // flags and enabling “Performance info info and hint retrieval.” Google hopes that the label can help users with slow or spotty links by providing them with the information needed to choose which page to open from any search results they receive. The tech giant says it may also experiment with labeling in other parts of the Chrome UI in the future.
