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In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman are joined by Rick Viscomi from the Chrome Web Performance team to discuss the importance of understanding what users seek to accomplish and optimizing accordingly, rather than focusing solely on metric scores. Listen along as the Search team touches on metrics like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and the latest Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as pieces of the pie for a better user experience.
Resources:
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr071-transcript
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals → https://goo.gle/4ar2UW6
Page Experience & Google Search → https://goo.gle/49cEWgm
Rick on X (formerly Twitter)→ https://goo.gle/3PCe4ze
Core Web Vitals on Stack Overflow → https://goo.gle/4awMqvw
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
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Speaker: John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, Rick Viscomi,
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