Googlebot Doesn’t Evaluate The Core Web Vitals; Chrome Does

Google’s John Mueller pointed out an important fact that I see a lot of folks in the industry misunderstanding around core web vitals. Googlebot does crawl the web and brings in most of the signals Google uses to rank your pages, but the core web vitals do not come from Googlebot or crawling, it comes from the Chrome CRuX field data report.

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 22, 2021

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