Over a yr and a half in the past, Google advised us they’d be dropping the web page expertise report from Google Search Console within the “coming months.” Properly, it took many “coming months” for it to occur and now the web page expertise report is not obtainable inside Google Search Console.
Google introduced on LinkedIn, not X this time round, that the web page expertise report is being eliminated lastly from Google Search Console.
Google wrote:
We’re eradicating the Web page Expertise report in Search Console. That web page summarized information from the Core Internet Vitals and the HTTPS studies, which is able to proceed to be obtainable as they’re.
We determined to take away this web page to cut back pointless litter inside Search Console and simplify navigating to this data. We nonetheless encourage you to give attention to offering web page expertise to your readers and monitoring the standing of your websites web page expertise within the CWV and HTTPS studies.
Farewell, Web page Expertise report 👋
I want they’d simply say the explanation was as a result of SEOs obsessed about it as a rating issue when in actuality, it makes nearly zero influence on rating. However no, Google stated it was to “scale back pointless litter.” And sure, Google stated they “nonetheless encourage you to give attention to offering web page expertise to your readers.”
I not see the web page expertise report choice underneath “expertise” in Search Console – that is what it seemed like:
For some historical past, the unique web page expertise report launched in Search Console in April 2021 and was designed for simply cell pages. Google added a desktop model with the launch of the desktop model of the algorithm in January 2022. Now that it’s 2024, Google goes to take away that web page expertise report fully and “will rework into a brand new web page that hyperlinks to our basic steerage about web page expertise,” Danny Sullivan wrote.
In December 2023, Google additionally dropped Google Search Console’s cell usability report (initially launched in 2016), the mobile-friendly take a look at instrument (launched in 2016) and mobile-friendly take a look at API. Google stated this isn’t as a result of cell pleasant and value shouldn’t be essential, Google stated, “it stays crucial for customers, who’re utilizing cell units greater than ever, and as such, it stays part of our web page expertise steerage. However within the almost ten years since we initially launched this report, many different strong sources for evaluating cell usability have emerged, together with Lighthouse from Chrome.”
There was quite a lot of wishy washy statements from Google on the significance of web page expertise and core internet vitals. Google stated We don’t affirm any of the issues [page experience or core web vitals] as a direct rating issue – now they affirm core internet vitals as a rating issue. This goes again to the confusion (which remains to be there regardless of Google not desirous to consider it) round how the adjustments to get useful content material steerage and web page expertise documentation from a yr or so in the past. Google shortly after that confusion advised us web page expertise is a rating sign however not a rating system. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, stated again then, “It simply meant these weren’t rating *programs* however as a substitute indicators utilized by different programs.”
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
