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Google announced that page speed would become a ranking factor for mobile searches in July 2018.

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Core Web Vitals: real factor, modest weight

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REPEATSGoogle announced in 2010 that site speed had become a signal in its web-search ranking algorithms.Under evaluation
NARROWSGoogle said the 2018 Speed Update would affect only pages delivering the slowest user experiences.Under evaluation
NARROWSGoogle said a slow page could still rank highly when it had strong relevant content for the query.Under evaluation
DERIVED_FROMGoogle announced in 2020 that page-experience signals would be incorporated into Search ranking.Under evaluation

Release: seo-geo-product-v0.3 · Phase Two freeze: P2-CORE300-FINAL-v1.0 · Generated: 2026-08-23T08:01:40Z