Google on Tuesday released a Chrome extension called Core Web Vitals that gives you a direct measurement for lodging complaints about slow websites. The tool accompanies a new push to get developers to focus on speed by measuring what Google’s Chrome team deems a useful collection of important data.
For more than a decade, Google has pushed for a faster web. Indeed, that was part of the reason for launching its Chrome browser more than a decade ago. Faster websites place better in Google search results, a powerful incentive. But a faster web is also a more vigorous foundation for Google’s search business.
