Web Vitals

Measure metrics for a healthy site

What is Web Vitals?

"Web Vitals" is a Chrome extension that gauges real-time user experience metrics critical for a healthy website. It assesses Core Web Vitals to provide feedback on loading, interactivity, and layout stability. Features include an Ambient Badge indicating metric success, a detailed popup for metric drill-down, and an overlay for continuous on-page metric display. It aligns with Chrome's measurement standards and integrates real-user data to benchmark against other users' experiences.

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Extension stats

By: addyosmani

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Users: 100,000+

Rating: 4.14 (43)

Version: 1.5.3 (Last updated: 2024-09-12)

Creation date: 2020-06-30

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage
activeTab
scripting

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size: 407.55K

Email: ad*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 2458 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#26 in Developer Tools

#6 in user experience keyword 25 ▼ 1

#37 in ux keyword 20 ▼ 2

#52 in badge keyword 7 ▼ 1

#68 in website usage keyword 54 ▼ 5

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Web Vitals (v3.9.16.1416)

4.20

(14) 992

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Extension summary

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Web Vitals are quality signals key to delivering great UX on the web (https://web.dev/vitals). This extension measures the Core Web Vitals, providing instant feedback on loading, interactivity and layout shift metrics. It is consistent with how these metrics are measured by Chrome and reported to other Google tools (e.g. Chrome User Experience Report, Page Speed Insights, Search Console).

The extension supports all of the Core Web Vitals and captures:

Largest Contentful Paint Cumulative Layout Shift Interaction to Next Paint

It also supports the diagnostic metrics:

Time to First Byte First Contentful Paint

And finally, it temporarily supports the following deprecated metrics:

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works wonderfully well
Super useful extension
Shows the CLS score

Cons

Doesn't work most of the time, often says 'Web Vitals are unavailable for this page'
Flickering numbers are distracting
Waiting for input can cause confusion

Most mentioned

Web Vitals are unavailable for this page
Flickering numbers are distracting
Waiting for input

Recent reviews

First Input Delay Waiting for input… It still working after 4 hours, no indicator in %, just standing there while all the other measurements finished their job on time.

Vesna K., 2024-08-17

李LONGFEI, 2024-07-24

Works wonderfully well

Jovan Ralic, 2024-06-25

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Web Vitals is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Web Vitals if you trust the publisher.