The web core test - stay ahead of competition and delight users

If you want to understand the web core test report and its benefits of it for your web presence, then keep on reading this blog till the end.

The long-term sustainability of every website on the web depends on its ability to optimize the quality of user experience. If you're a site developer, marketer, or business owner, Web Vitals can show you how to measure the user experience with your site and identify opportunities for improvement.

If you haven’t taken a test yet, do it with 2 simple steps:

1. Paste your site URL in the request report box and request the report
2. Fill in your essential information to get the report PDF

Now let’s scan the report sections one by one and understand.

This test checks if all users can be able to access your content on the web or not. A website is considered accessible if its content is available to all users, regardless of their disabilities, and if its functionality is usable by the broadest potential audience of users.

While developing the website, the developer might assume that all users can see and use a keyboard, mouse, or touch screen to interact with your page. In this case, your content and experience are available for some people but for others, it might be the issue and that becomes a very first blocker while interacting with your site.

The score is given in percentage and it is calculated by taking an average of each accessibility audit. Each audit can be either pass or fail.

A good user experience includes making sure the content loads quickly and responds to user interaction. This is referred to as web performance.

This test is a collective result of a few metrics. These checks verify that your page is optimised so that users can see and interact with the page content.

1. First Contentful Paint(FCP): This is used to test the loading speed of the website. It tells that how much time the website started showing at least content.
2. Largest Contentful Paint(LCP): This tells how quickly your main page content renders
3. Cumulative Layout Shift(CLS): This tells how stable are your page layouts, does the content shifts unexpectedly after rendering
4. Time to Interactive(TTI): This tells the time for your page to become fully interactive.
5. Total Blocking Time(TBT): This tells the total amount of time that a page is blocked from responding to user input, such as mouse clicks, screen taps, or keyboard presses.

• More about performance metrics

This audit highlights the opportunities to improve the overall performance of your web presence.

Few checks to work:

1. General best practices
   1. The page has the HTML doctype
   2. The console log does have the browser errors
   3. Displays images with a correct aspect ratio
2. Make your page fast
   1. Use HTTP/2 for all of its resources
   2. Improve scrolling performance with passive listeners.
3. Make your page secure
   1. Links to cross-origin destinations are safe
   2. Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
4. Create a good user experience
   1. Requests the geolocation permission on page load
   2. Requests the notification permission on page load
5. Avoid deprecated technology
   1. Use of AppCache
   2. Use of deprecated API

This audit identifies whether your page is optimised for search engines like Google. SEO audits are now important to remaining successful online. The ultimate objective of the entire test is to integrate the core web essentials with ranking elements for "page experience" on the web. Additionally, SEO plays an important role in overall page ranking.

Checks that affect SEO:

1. Make sure search engines understand your page content
   1. Meta description
   2. Descriptive text for links
   3. Valid hreflang
   4. Valid rel=canonial
2. Make sure search engines crawl over your index page
   1. Page has successful HTTP status code
   2. Valid robot.txt
3. Make your page responsive
4. Structured data is valid

PWA basically checks the features of Progressive Web Apps. Web apps that are fast, reliable, and can work offline that is they are installable.

Checks that are considered in this:

1. The page is fast and reliable
   1. The page is fast enough to load on a mobile network
   2. The page should provide a custom offline page
2. Installable
   1. Use HTTPS
   2. Register a service worker that controls page and start_url
   3. The web app should meet the installing requirements
3. Optimised PWA
   1. The site should be protected with HTTPS
   2. Set a theme color for the address bar
   3. Correctly placed and sized the content on the viewport
   4. Have a <meta name="viewport"> tag with width or initial-scale
4. Site works cross-browser
5. Each page has a URL

The ultimate purpose of this entire report test, these tests, and everything else are to make your page well-equipped to survive online while providing a positive user experience and gaining significant traction. Take the test right away if you haven't already!