Core Web Vital Q&A — Karl Kleinschmidt // Searchmetrics

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Karl Kleinschmidt

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Show Notes

  • ·2:04 : The most commonly asked question when it comes to figuring out how to optimize your Core Web Vitals ·2:48 : How do you evaluate which part of all of the core web vitals is actually causing your website to suffer and then what's the impact? ·4:10 : LCP - largest contentful pain is the biggest visual element inside of the viewport ·5:16 : How do you figure out if you have an LCP issue? ·6:29 : Fixing LCP issues ·7:02 : General speed optimizations ·8:21 : Making the pop up actually separate from the website is the most important thing for fixing pop up. ·8:51 : CLS -cumulative layout shift ·9:36 : Figuring out exactly how much each element is moving, that contributes to the CLS score is how you troubleshoot it. ·12:31 : Some of the ways that you can take your core web vitals to the next level ·13:13 : Rolling out amp will have almost zero impact on your core but vitals ·13:34 : The biggest thing is to look where the majority of your people are going, and are they new versus returning customers and then making optimizations decisions for the largest percentage of your visitors.

Episode Summary

  • ·“My recommendation is find what is causing your problems fix those and then most of the time you'll see a huge jump in stats” - Karl ·“ Figuring out why google disagrees with you is the number one step” - Karl ·“Pop ups are really tricky to troubleshoot “ - Karl ·“ What Google is doing is they're giving us tools to be more efficient and understand how they're evaluating us.” - Benjamin ·“ One of the things that makes core web vitals unique is that no matter what platform you're using, you have to keep it in mind.” - Karl
About the speaker

Karl Kleinschmidt

Searchmetrics

- Searchmetrics

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