CWV
Technology & Computing abbreviation · Internet & Web
| Stands for | Core Web Vitals |
|---|---|
| Categories | Technology & Computing |
CWV stands for Core Web Vitals, an Internet & web abbreviation.
Google's set of three user-experience metrics for web pages: Largest Contentful Paint for loading, Interaction to Next Paint for responsiveness and Cumulative Layout Shift for visual stability. They are measured from real Chrome users and used in Google Search ranking.
Example: Search Console flags 120 URLs as failing CWV on mobile.
Usage notes
Announced in May 2020 and included in Google's page experience signals from 2021. A page passes when at least 75 percent of visits meet the "good" threshold for each metric. The field data comes from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). INP replaced First Input Delay in the set in March 2024.
Related abbreviations
More Internet & web abbreviations
- CLS – Cumulative Layout Shift
- CMS – Content management system
- CORS – Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
- CSP – Content Security Policy
- CSR – Client-side rendering
- CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
- DOM – Document Object Model
- ES6 – ECMAScript 6
- FCP – First Contentful Paint
- FID – First Input Delay
- FOUC – Flash of unstyled content
- gTLD – Generic top-level domain