Definition

Page experience is Google's collective term for a set of signals — Core Web Vitals, HTTPS, mobile usability, and absence of intrusive interstitials — that describe how users perceive interacting with a page beyond its content.

Google has stated page experience is one input among many in its ranking systems and that great content can outweigh poor page experience. There is no single "page experience score" surfaced in Search Console; the underlying signals (Core Web Vitals, HTTPS, mobile usability) are reported individually. Google retired the dedicated Page Experience report in Search Console in 2023, but the underlying ranking systems continue to use these signals.

Examples

• Improving the underlying signals

  A travel site fixes its CLS issues, ensures HTTPS is enforced, and removes a full-screen mobile interstitial. The Core Web Vitals report in Search Console shows all three metrics moving to "good", improving the page experience signals Google considers.

Sources

• Google Search Central — Understanding page experience in Google Search results

Related terms

• Core Web Vitals
  A set of three Google metrics that measure real-world page experience: loading speed, interactivity and visual stability.
• Largest Contentful Paint
  A Core Web Vitals metric measuring how long the largest visible content element on a page takes to render after loading begins.
• Cumulative Layout Shift
  A Core Web Vitals metric measuring how much visible content unexpectedly shifts position during the lifetime of a page.
• Interaction to Next Paint
  A Core Web Vitals metric measuring how long a page takes to visually respond to a user interaction, sampled across the page's lifetime.
• HTTPS
  Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure — the encrypted version of HTTP. Google uses HTTPS as a lightweight ranking signal.
• Mobile-First Indexing
  Google's practice of using the mobile version of a site as the primary basis for indexing and ranking.

Where QueryCatch uses this

• Page Optimisation
• SEO Audit