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.” Nicely, it took many “coming months” for it to occur and now the web page expertise report is now not out there 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 knowledge from the Core Internet Vitals and the HTTPS studies, which is able to proceed to be out there as they’re.
We determined to take away this web page to cut back pointless muddle inside Search Console and simplify navigating to this info. We nonetheless encourage you to deal with offering a great 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 virtually zero influence on rating. However no, Google mentioned it was to “scale back pointless muddle.” And sure, Google mentioned they “nonetheless encourage you to deal with offering a great web page expertise to your readers.”
I now not see the web page expertise report choice beneath “expertise” in Search Console – that is what it appeared like:
For some historical past, the unique web page expertise report launched in Search Console in April 2021 and was designed for simply cellular 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 utterly and “will remodel into a brand new web page that hyperlinks to our basic steering about web page expertise,” Danny Sullivan wrote.
In December 2023, Google additionally dropped Google Search Console’s cellular usability report (initially launched in 2016), the mobile-friendly check instrument (launched in 2016) and mobile-friendly check API. Google mentioned this isn’t as a result of cellular pleasant and usefulness is just not necessary, Google mentioned, “it stays important for customers, who’re utilizing cellular units greater than ever, and as such, it stays part of our web page expertise steering. However within the practically ten years since we initially launched this report, many different sturdy assets for evaluating cellular usability have emerged, together with Lighthouse from Chrome.”
There was loads of wishy washy statements from Google on the significance of web page expertise and core internet vitals. Google mentioned We don’t verify any of the issues [page experience or core web vitals] as a direct rating issue – now they verify core internet vitals as a rating issue. This goes again to the confusion (which remains to be there regardless of Google not eager to imagine it) round how the adjustments to get useful content material steering 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, mentioned again then, “It simply meant these weren’t rating *programs* however as an alternative indicators utilized by different programs.”
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
