--- title: How Core Web Vitals affect application SEO:... description: Understanding how Core Web Vitals impact SEO and search ranking. Google's page experience ranking system evaluates site performance based on Core Web Vitals.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-web-vitals-affect-application-seo-understanding-google-page-experience-ranking-and-lightho-pgq3pivgh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Core Web Vitals affect application SEO: Understanding Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores – Vercel | daily.dev og:description: Understanding how Core Web Vitals impact SEO and search ranking. Google's page experience ranking system evaluates site performance based on Core Web Vitals.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-web-vitals-affect-application-seo-understanding-google-page-experience-ranking-and-lightho-pgq3pivgh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pGq3pIVgh.png og:image:alt: How Core Web Vitals affect application SEO: Understanding Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores – Vercel og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Core Web Vitals affect application SEO: Understanding Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores – Vercel **[Vercel](https://daily.dev/sources/vercel)** · 9 min read · 10 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Understanding how Core Web Vitals impact SEO and search ranking. Google's page experience ranking system evaluates site performance based on Core Web Vitals. Relevancy and content quality are more important factors, but page experience can be a deciding factor in competitive scenarios. Core Web Vitals can be improved through optimization efforts and can enhance user experience and conversion. Google Search Console and Google's PageSpeed Insights provide data on Core Web Vitals. Lighthouse scores do not impact search ranking. Vercel's Speed Insights allows for real-time monitoring and iteration on Core Web Vitals. Optimization guides are available from Google. Improving Core Web Vitals is a transparent ranking factor in Google Search. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rogan** · 1 upvotes > clever sales pitch for their dashboard featureset. Well played vercel **@hantian\_pang** · 0 upvotes > Thanks for sharing, I am learning SEO ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#seo](https://daily.dev/tags/seo), [#lighthouse](https://daily.dev/tags/lighthouse) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-web-vitals-affect-application-seo-understanding-google-page-experience-ranking-and-lightho-pgq3pivgh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Core Web Vitals affect application SEO: Understanding Google page experience ranking and Lighthouse scores – Vercel","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-web-vitals-affect-application-seo-understanding-google-page-experience-ranking-and-lightho-pgq3pivgh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-web-vitals-affect-application-seo-understanding-google-page-experience-ranking-and-lightho-pgq3pivgh"},"datePublished":"2024-01-19T18:36:21.916Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z","description":"Understanding how Core Web Vitals impact SEO and search ranking. 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