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Google announced in 2020 that page-experience signals would be incorporated into Search ranking.

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DERIVED_FROMGoogle announced that page speed would become a ranking factor for mobile searches in July 2018.Under evaluation
DERIVED_FROMGoogle’s 2015 mobile-friendly ranking update increased the ranking of mobile-friendly pages in mobile search results.Supported
DERIVED_FROMGoogle announced in 2014 that HTTPS was being used as a web-search ranking signal.Under evaluation
DERIVED_FROMGoogle said pages whose main content was not easily accessible after a mobile-search click because of intrusive interstitials might not rank as highly.Supported
NARROWSGoogle said there is no single page-experience signal used for ranking.Under evaluation

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