How can I improve my website's Core Web Vitals and user experience?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for advice on improving my website's Core Web Vitals and enhancing user experience. I've noticed that my site's performance metrics, including page loading speed, interactivity, and visual stability, need improvement according to Google's Core Web Vitals assessment. I would appreciate any insights or recommendations on optimizing page loading speed, leveraging browser caching, minimizing render-blocking resources, optimizing server response time, improving interactivity, reducing input delay, and ensuring visual stability. Any tips, tools, or best practices related to Core Web Vitals and user experience enhancement would be highly valuable. Thank you in advance for your help!

 

Improving your website's Core Web Vitals and user experience involves addressing several key factors. Start by optimizing your site's loading speed, ensuring fast and efficient delivery of content. Utilize tools like image compression, minification, and caching to speed up page load times. Additionally, focus on enhancing the website's responsiveness and interactivity, making sure it is mobile-friendly and easy to navigate. Implementing a smooth and intuitive user interface, along with providing valuable and well-structured content, will contribute to a better overall user experience and positively impact your Core Web Vitals.

 

To boost your website's Core Web Vitals and user experience, optimize loading speed with tools like LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress. Also this can help you with SEO. Ensure mobile responsiveness, minimize layout shifts, optimize interactivity, and monitor performance regularly.

 

This is something I have spent a long time on in the last 12 months, in particular page loading speed, because it drives so many things: SEO ranking, UX metrics, Google ads performance, conversion rate, returning visitors, etc.
The size of your images will be a big factor on load speed, careful how big they are, that you have some cache plugin to store the images for the user, and check the format (WebP is good but careful on the quality). Get some image compression plugin like Smush but again be careful when compressing you do lose too much quality.

After quite a bit of work I have managed to get Propress to load at 4 secs which given the number of plugins it has for various functionalities, and all the large images the client requires on the site, I think is quite good. Take a look at the site - be good to hear your and other people's feedback.

 

I think in general with CWV. It's the same rules as before. Reduce file size. Improve page-speed. That also helps user experience.

Look out especially for larger images, make sure you reduce the file size with those (without making the images too blurry).

UX is a lot of communicating what to do, and making things quick and easy for users.

 

You might want to consider a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to get your server nearer your audiences. At Propress we use Cloudflare and they seem good and reliable and I have seen an improvement in speed.

 

Focus on optimizing your website's loading speed by reducing render-blocking resources, leveraging browser caching, and improving server response time. Enhance the user experience by minimizing input delay, improving interactivity, and ensuring visual stability for a better Core Web Vitals assessment. Utilize tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights and Lighthouse to identify areas for improvement and implement best practices to enhance overall performance.

 

Here are some tips and tools that can help:

1- Upgrade your hosting: Hosting plays an important role in the website you need to upgrade your hosting plan for a better outcome.
2- Compress and optimize images: Images should be in WebP provides a superior compression algorithm which reduces file size. if your website has a large image this needs to be compressed
3- Minimize CSS, HTML, and JavaScript: Reduce unnecessary characters, comments, and white spaces to reduce file sizes.

 

Rocket cache for WordPress.

 

Improving your Core Web Vitals and user experience can be tackled from a few angles:
Speed it Up:

• Optimize Images: Large images can slow things down. Use tools to compress them without sacrificing quality.
• Minify Code: Minimize unnecessary characters and whitespace in your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.
• Leverage Browser Caching: Store key website elements on users' browsers to speed up repeat visits.
• Reduce HTTP Requests: The fewer resources a page needs to load, the faster it appears. Combine files when possible.

Enhance Responsiveness:

• Prioritize Mobile Friendliness: Make sure your site loads and functions well on all devices, especially mobile.
• Minimize Render-Blocking Resources: Identify and defer non-critical scripts and styles to prevent them from delaying page rendering.

Visual Stability:

• Optimize Font Delivery: Preload key fonts to avoid layout shifts as fonts load.
• Reduce Layout Shifts: Ensure elements on your page have defined dimensions to prevent unexpected jumps during loading.

Helpful Tools:

• Google PageSpeed Insights: https://www.webpagetest.org/ Analyzes your site and offers specific recommendations.
• GTmetrix: https://gtmetrix.com/ Another popular tool for website performance analysis.