CrUX reports user experience by page views; Search Console reports by URLs (grouped). Both can be right at the same time. Understand each tool’s method before comparing numbers. Google's Barry Pollard ...

Someone posted details of a novel negative SEO attack that they said appeared to be a Core Web Vitals performance poisoning attack. Google’s John Mueller and Chrome’s Barry Pollard assisted in ...

While I think SEOs spend way too much time and effort on Core Web Vitals, many do ask why does the Google Chrome UX report often not match what is shown in the Google Search Console core web vitals ...

Core Web Vitals don’t boost AI rankings — except when performance fails badly enough to hurt trust and engagement, this analysis shows. As AI-led search becomes a real driver of discovery, an old ...

For the original iTunes version, click here. In this week's recap, we covered that the Google December 2025 core update was unleashed. Google also said more core updates are definitely on their way ...