How does your main site fare on Google's new INP Core Web Vital report?

[MichaelCorfman]

Just over a month ago, on 10 May 2023, Google announced it is introducing a new Core Web Vital called INP:

Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals

INP stands for "Interaction to Next Paint" and Google has announced that the new metric will replace the First Input Delay (FID) metric in March 2024 as a Core Web Vital used in ranking pages in search results.

As documented on web.dev/inp/

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a pending Core Web Vital metric that will replace First Input Delay (FID) in March 2024. INP assesses responsiveness using data from the Event Timing API. When an interaction causes a page to become unresponsive, that is a poor user experience. INP observes the latency of all interactions a user has made with the page, and reports a single value which all (or nearly all) interactions were below. A low INP means the page was consistently able to respond quickly to all—or the vast majority—of user interactions.

Pages can have the following INP responsiveness ratings:

Good: 200 milliseconds or less
Needs Improvement: 500 milliseconds or less and above 200 miliseconds
Poor: Above 500 milliseconds

Today, on the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere, Google took a new step to provide webmasters with feedback regarding how their sites rank based on the new INP metric.

So, for this week's poll, I ask if you have seen the new report offered in Google Search Console, and how you main site fares.

You can find the report by selecting "Core Web Vitals" for a site within Google Search Console, and then on that page you should find a message near the top of the page that reads "INP will replace FID as a part of Core Web Vitals in March 2024. Learn how your site performs with the new INP issues table."

For the GPWA website, currently 1,019 pages are ranked as needs improvement for INP and none are ranked as bad. I voted in the poll based on the GPWA website.

For my company's most important affiliate site, no INP issues are currently detected.

Michael

[Former Member 14]

Thanks for the heads up about this Michael, I was clueless to it. Followed your instructions and received the following result:

No INP issues detected
Your site is ready for changes coming in March 2024.

[mickyfu]

Surprisingly no issues. I remember taking weeks going through site audits correcting loads of issues thinking it would have positive results on my main site. Making sure my sites had better speed and less issues than my competitors, and gained nothing. So I'm not a big believer in core Web vitals.