Page Experience is becoming more important to Google

Mickey Mellen
2 min readAug 9, 2021

For the past few years, Google’s “page experience” update has essentially been used as a tie-breaker. If you have features such as HTTPS on your site (which you should), or your site loads quickly (as it should), those weren’t huge ranking boosts. In fact, Google confirmed back in 2015 that HTTPS was essentially just a tie-breaker — if your site and another were mostly the same, but one had HTTPS and the other didn’t, that would push them over the top.

When it comes to what “page experience” specifically means, Google generally looks at…

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Mickey Mellen

I’m a cofounder of @GreenMellen, and I’m into WordPress, blogging and seo. Love my two girls, gadgets, Google Earth, and I try to run when I can.