David Vršek and Adam Jedlička (both StoreFront X Developers) were among the speakers at the webinar Time to speed up! and had an inspiring presentation about the performance of the apps in relation to Core Web Vitals. We bring you the summary of their speech. 

Core Web Vitals are rolled out now! As of May 2021, Google started to measure the user experience of web applications and incorporated the score into SERP. Since most of the traffic for web applications goes from Google, people should start optimizing their pages. Have they started yet? Let’s get some data to see what has happened with the web lately.

Customers’ expectations and the usage of smartphones are getting higher every day, which puts a lot of pressure on mobile speed. The gap between companies with great mobile experience and those without will widen more and more. To stay competitive, companies will have to adopt a mobile-first mind-set and focus on site speed as the top priority.  

Every ttenth of a second when a visitor has to wait for your site to load has a far greater impact on your revenue than you think. Lighthouse a useful tool from Google, will help you find out how your online store actually performs.