Understanding Googles New Core Web Vitals May 2021
Summary
This core web vital is similar to the first one in that it’s a time-based metric, but rather than measuring the speed of what you can see, it’s measuring the speed between when you touch something (like a button) and when it actually does what it’s supposed to. If there was a couple of seconds of delay, you might end up clicking it again wondering if you actually clicked it the first time. This seems like a pretty harmless problem, but when I think about using my Smart TV at home (it’s a few years old and TVs have never been known for their processing power), I absolutely hate the idea of scrolling through the menus because of the time delay. Even changing the input between my gaming consoles is frustrating because I have to wait about 2 seconds between when I hit the button and when it actually moves, which means I usually end up hitting it too many times, or I hit it enough times but it only registers a couple of them and I don’t end up where I want to. Again, these are minor inconveniences, but it has made me use my gaming console to watch Netflix instead of the Smart TV, so it can definitely be enough for you not to use someone’s website.
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