Difference Between Search Console CWV Report & PageSpeed Insights - Search Engine Journal

Google's John Mueller explains why Search Console Core Web Vitals report differs from PageSpeed Insights scores

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In an SEO office-hours video Google’s John Mueller answers why the PageSpeed Insights score and the Search Console Core Web Vitals scores are consistently different.

He explains why two measurements of page speed never match and why it makes sense that they don’t match.

PageSpeed Insights vs. Search Console CWV Report

It’s reasonable to ask why two things that purport to measure the same thing provide different results.

This is the question:

“When I check my PageSpeed Insight score on my website, I see a simple number. Why doesn’t this match what I see in Search Console in the Core Web Vitals report?

Which one of these numbers is correct?”

Different Page Speed Scores

John Mueller first mentions that the scores provided by PageSpeed Insights and Search Console are actually different sets of numbers.

He said:

“I think maybe first of all, to get the obvious answer out the door, where is no correct number when it comes to speed, when it comes to understanding how your website is performing for your users.

In PageSpeed Insights, by default, I believe we show a single number that kind of is a score from 0 to 100, something like that, which is based on a number of assumptions, where we...



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