Google Search Console removing the Page Experience report
Google is removing the Page Experience report from Google Search Console, the company announced on LinkedIn this morning. Google said this is to “reduce unnecessary clutter” within the tool.
Google did add they “still encourage you to focus on providing a good page experience to your readers and monitoring the status of your sites page experience in the CWV and HTTPS reports.”
We knew this was coming, Google told us this in April 2023 but now the time has come from Google to remove it. In fact, I no longer see the report in my Google Search Console profiles.
Why this matters. It is of my opinion that removing this report from Search Console is to not just reduce clutter, I mean, there are tons of tools there and you don’t need to click on it if you don’t want to. But it is to help site owners, creators, SEOs and others to focus more on what matters with Google Search and SEO and less on what does not matter as much.
What Google said. Here is what Google posted on LinkedIn:
“We’re removing the Page Experience report in Search Console. That page summarized data from the Core Web Vitals and the HTTPS reports, which will continue to be available as they are.
We decided to remove this page to reduce unnecessary clutter within Search Console and simplify navigating to this information. We still encourage you to focus on providing a good page experience to your readers and monitoring the status of your sites page experience in the CWV and HTTPS reports.
Farewell, Page Experience report 👋”
Core Web Vitals & HTTPS report remain. A dashboard view of the individual Core Web Vitals and HTTPS reports will remain in Search Console, Google told us in April.
Changes to helpful content and page experience. Google also announced earlier this year that good page experience is a requirement for creating, what Google defines as, helpful content.
Google initially launched the page experience report in April 2021 and then updated that report in November 2023.
Here is what the report looked/looks like:
