Page speed and Core Web Vitals
Page speed is how quickly a page shows its main content and responds. Google measures it with Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint and Cumulative Layout Shift.
Why it matters
Slow pages lose visitors before they read a word, and speed is part of how Google ranks pages. Google's targets are LCP within 2.5 seconds, INP within 200 milliseconds and CLS under 0.1.
In practice
- Test on a mid-range phone, not your laptop.
- Compress images and load only the fonts you use.
- Keep scripts off pages that don't need them.