Google Page Experience Update - ARE YOU READY?

What are your next steps and why you should take this update seriously

• Google has been talking about this for a while, and typically they mean business when they do (Think Panda and Penguin)
• Websites that benefit consumers will do well
• Making your site fast and less annoying for consumers will be a good thing
• Your mobile results will improve or decrease dramatically based on what you do over these next few months
• A drop won’t happen initially, it will be a long drawn roll-out
• This is the new SEO world, get used to it
• Severe impact meter rating “9 out of 10” (Our hunch)

Site performance plays a significant role in your success. High-performance sites will retain customers and have a direct impact on your bottom line.
Five items we will focus on to help boost your score:

• Optimize images
• Stabilize loading of your website
• Check your server speed to help get that loading time down
• Evaluate critical CSS to load above the fold content quicker
• Look to improve loading of third-party scripts

“Today, we’re building on this work and providing an early look at an upcoming Search ranking change that incorporates these page experience metrics. We will introduce a new signal that combines Core Web Vitals with our existing signals for page experience to provide a holistic picture of the quality of a user’s experience on a web page.”

– Official Google Webmaster Central Blog