Google recently announced an update to the Search Console with a new feature called the Page Experience Report. This report will give you insight into how users are experiencing your site and where they’re getting stuck. The report will also help you identify issues on your site that may be affecting user experience, like broken links or lack of content depth.
This new report is dedicated to evaluating Page Experience criteria on the desktop versions of web pages.
This report can help you prepare for the launch of the page experience algorithm update on desktop, which will begin rolling out in February and finish at the end of March.
In an announcement on Twitter, Google states:
To support the upcoming rollout of page experience ranking to desktop, Search Console now has a dedicated desktop section in its Page Experience report to help site owners understand Google’s ‘good page experience’ criteria. Read more about the rollout
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The rollout will begin in February 2022 and will be complete by the end of March 2022.
This ranking launch will be based on the same page experience signals that were rolled out for mobile earlier this year. There is also a plan to help site owners understand how their desktop pages are performing with regards to page experience using a Search Console report which will launch before desktop becomes a ranking signal.
This means the same three Core Web Vitals metrics: LCP, FID, and CLS, and their associated thresholds will apply for the desktop ranking.
Page experience signals, such as HTTPS security and the absence of intrusive interstitials, will remain the same.
To see exactly how the mobile and desktop updates differ, see the chart below:
Source: Google search central on Twitter.
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