Google Removes Search Console Page Experience Report

Google’s efforts to reduce clutter and make Search Console more concise and user-friendly continue by removing the Page Experience report from Search Console.

Google said essential monitoring metrics like HTTPS reports and Core Web Vitals will remain.

Google`s announcement

Google announced removing the Page Experience report, saying, “A good page experience is necessary for creating helpful content, and its removal would simplify the interface and improve its navigation.”

Google`s announcement on LinkedIn:

“We’re removing the Page Experience report in Search Console. That page summarized data from the Core Web Vitals and the HTTPS reports, which will continue to be available as they are.”

Google added:

“We decided to remove this page to reduce unnecessary clutter within Search Console and simplify navigating to this information. We still encourage you to focus on providing a good page experience to your readers and monitoring the status of your site’s page experience in the CWV and HTTPS reports.”

Users can still access essential performance metric tools like HTTPS reports and Core Web Vitals.

Core Web Vitals & HTTPS report remain

Google’s advice to continue monitoring your website’s page experience refers to the CWV and HTTPS reports that are essential for ensuring your site complies with Google’s security recommendations and providing what Google describes as a “good page experience.”

Here’s a recap of what they are and why they’re essential to your website as per Google Search Central:

“Core Web Vitals is a set of metrics that measure real-world user experience for loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability of the page. We highly recommend site owners achieve good Core Web Vitals for success with Search and to ensure a great user experience generally.”
“The HTTPS report shows how many indexed URLs on your site are HTTP vs HTTPS. Google strongly recommends using HTTPS for your site to protect your users’ security and privacy. If your site has a page with both an HTTP and HTTPS address, Google prefers to index the HTTPS version.”

Clearing out the clutter

Google said removing the Page Experience report would “reduce unnecessary clutter” while retaining essential security and performance metric reports.

Its removal is in keeping with Google’s recent review and rewrite of many internal documents and the September 2023 Helpful Content Update, which the tech giant said was to make Google Search more concise and to encourage publishers and SEO professionals to provide a better user experience.

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