Core Web Vitals and SEO
Can Core Web Vitals have an effect on your SEO? Continue reading to find out whether or not this group of metrics is used as a ranking factor.
Can Core Web Vitals have an effect on your SEO? Continue reading to find out whether or not this group of metrics is used as a ranking factor.
Lighthouse is a popular tool for determining a website's load time and other relevant web metrics. It's possible that this is due to the fact that Google is the most popular search engine in the world. But what exactly is Lighthouse? What's the secret to making it work for you? Here, we'll explain how it works and what you can do with the information it provides you.
Google offers free Core Web Vitals data from real visitors. Why isn't that enough to get a good oversight of how your webshop is doing?
Visitors arrive at your website or webshop from various sources. One of those sources is probably google ads, facebook ads or another source that uses a query string. But beware: these campaigns and ads you have running can impact the user experience negatively.
With many RUM solutions available, the biggest challenge for us was to bring something new to the market. Fortunately, experience also brings irritations and we started developing from there. What were we missing in RUM solutions that really shouldn't have been missing?
Nowadays, most phones have 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of RAM. Each step in memory has a different user experience. But which ones will end up on your website?
We're here to chase pagespeed. We're not the only one though. We'll explain why we are taking the leap of introducing another pagespeed and RUM solution.
Some think it's here to annoy SEO specialists and developers. But Google got pagespeed on the map by introducing Core Web VItals. And despite ongoing changes, that's a good thing.
No shop is the same, even if they're running on the same platform. That's because no user let alone audience is the same. That's why it is difficult to compare pagespeed between two shops.
There is confusion among some people about the distinction between RUM data (Real User Monitoring) and field data. Google refers to field data, while we refer to it as RUM data.
We can use Google public data to somehow get an idea of the performance of platforms. For free. But there are challenges though when trying to do this. For example when a platform isn't just a website or webshop builder, but maybe both.