Shhhh, can you hear it?

[JS_Harris]

Can you hear the code and features being ripped out of websites everywhere so that they meet Google's upcoming mobile usability core update?

Google changes how THEY rank and just like that they change the face of many a site on the net. It's officially a chicken and egg sort of situation. Google used to just rank stuff, now they impact creation itself by asking webmasters to change for them. Sure, the net can be, and should be, cleaned up for mobile but not because of some mysterious and top secret algorithm judging them.

If you don't know how the secret sause works you tend to want to just toss everything - shhhh can you hear people rushing to beat this deadline?

Note: Google's upcoming Page Experience algorithm update has been rescheduled from May to mid-June 2021. Someone must have complained.

[NickMNS]

Hmm? Interesting, I just noticed the new "Page Experience" Report. I have been working so hard fixing things, I scored 99.8%. I'm so glad what a relief! Here is a complete list of the elements I fixed:

[iamlost]

Can you hear the code and features being ripped out of websites everywhere so that they meet Google's upcoming mobile usability core update?

Do you hear the SEOs sing?
Singing the song of happy men?
It is the music of the people
Who will sell their secret sauce again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of their drums
There is a con about to start
When tomorrow comes!
—-with apologies to Enjolras

but But BUT...

Understanding page experience in Google Search results [developers.google.com]

...page experience will join the hundreds of signals that Google considers when generating Search results.

While page experience is important, Google still seeks to rank pages with the best information overall, even if the page experience is subpar. Great page experience doesn't override having great page content. However, in cases where there are many pages that may be similar in relevance, page experience can be much more important for visibility in Search.

It is yet again a bundle of bog standard best practices that will only be considered should a tie occur.

Once again G is trying to have it both ways.

As NickMNS mentions: webdevs who follow best practices - and not chase Google PR ‘algo changes’ - need change not a thing.

As JS_Harris’ title whispers: Shhhh, can you hear it?

Circus Du SEO is back in business! Look, clowns!

[lucy24]

Nope, can’t hear a thing.

Mwa ha ha.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

A good web dev, already makes sites, fast, and user friendly, ... and I am not bragging because of my 99.9% score ... Also, a good web dev, can do all this, and still make original and fancy designs.

[tangor]

Musician that I am, I am tone deaf to G's siren song. Long gone are the days when G used to actually offer insights on how to build a page ... these days the intent is to get everyone to make a page the way THEY want it ...

[ronin]

I'm not quite the avid follower of SEO cutting-edge developments that I was 14-15 years ago, so I wasn't aware of the new Google Search Console Page Experience Report until I came across this thread. (Thanks, @JS_Harris.)

I thought I'd check the report to see my main site's metrics... and was a little surprised to be told:

Your site has no URLs with a good page experience.
Insufficient HTTPS coverage on your site.
Good URLs: 0%

This, though all pages and all internal links across the site have been https:// since October 2018.

Anyway, I'm relieved to find out that I'm not alone, by any means.

See: [support.google.com...]

[not2easy]

No to take this off course, but their report of "0% Good URLs" may be based on your old pre-https: URLs unless you have created a new account for your 'new' domain. Yes, they see them as different domains. :(

[ronin]

I ran a custom regex search to find out which pages Google Search Console knows about which begin with http://.

It knows of zero pages. Every page it has indexed begins with https://.

On the Google Support thread, the general conclusion (at least for now) is that Google Search Console released the Page Experience Report with bugs.

[thecoalman]

There is certainly some bugs. I happened upon this the other day and I had something like 6% <oh no, what is this!>, The graph I have goes back late January, throughout February it's at 99.6% and then a steep decline to less than 1% throughout March and most of April. Over the last 6 days it goes from less than 0% to the mid sixties, I'm expecting it will go to that 99.6% mark in another day or two.