le updates its search ranking algorithms page.

Google removed the mobile-friendly system, page speed system and secure site ranking systems. Google removed the page experience system as well as the mobile-friendly system. the page speed system, and the secure site system.

You may wonder whether these algorithmic updates had any impact on the overall Google ranking system.

What has changed? You will notice the following differences between the live page and the archived page:

Google has removed the Page Experience System from the Google page. It was not just moved to the “retired systems” section but completely removed.

Google has removed the mobile-friendly, page speed and secure site systems from the retired section.

Here’s what it looked earlier:

Here’s what it looks now:

Why the change? Google has just a few days ago updated the content guidelines to include the page experience. At the same time, the page experience and mobile usability reports were removed from Google Search Console.

Google explained these changes in the Google Blog Post. “The Page Experience Update was a concept that described a number of key page-experience aspects site owners should focus on. It introduced Core Web Vitals, a new ranking signal, which was considered by our core systems, alongside other page experience signals, such as HTTPS, that they had already been considering. This was not a separate system and did not combine these signals into a single “page-experience” signal.

Google has stated that the page experience update is always been a concept and was never “a separate ranking system.”

Was it ever a ranking system? Google seems to be saying that the four ranking updates Google launched in the past, and about which they made a big deal when they were first released, never represented a real ranking system. Perhaps I’m reading too much into the content changes made to these webpages, but we know that these four ranking updates have had very little impact on actual rankings.

Google wrote that in a new blog post: “Google Search will always show the most relevant results, even if page experiences are sub-par.”

Why we care. Maybe, at least for SEO and ranking purposes, we can spend less time worrying about page experience, speed and mobile-friendlessness and more time worrying about content and engagement. Of course, page experience, speed and mobile-friendlessness are super important for your users and usability, but for rankings, they just never seemed all that important.

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