The three questions behind them are refreshingly human. Did something meaningful show up quickly? When I tapped, did anything happen promptly? Did the page shove a button out from under my finger while I was reaching for it? Each is scored from real visits rather than a lab test, which is why your scores can differ from a testing tool's verdict.
They are a genuine ranking signal, but a modest one next to whether your page actually answers the question someone searched for. The right way to treat them is as a floor rather than a target: a page slow or jumpy enough to annoy people is a problem worth fixing, while squeezing out the last fraction of a second rarely changes anything commercially.
Third-party scripts are a common cause of poor scores, so it is fair to be cautious about adding one. Clerkzo loads asynchronously and after your content, and it reserves its own space rather than shoving your layout around, so it stays off the critical path for the measurements that matter.
Related terms
Browse all 142 terms- TokensTokens are the small pieces of text, usually a word or part of a word, that an AI language model reads and generates. Models measure everything they process in tokens rather than characters or words.
- AI OverviewsAI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of some Google search results, answering the query directly and linking to the pages the summary drew from.
- EmbeddingsEmbeddings are lists of numbers that represent the meaning of a piece of content, such as a sentence or a paragraph. Items with similar meaning end up with similar numbers, which lets software compare meaning mathematically instead of matching exact words.
- Web crawlerA web crawler is a program that automatically browses websites, fetching pages and following their links to discover more pages. Search engines, archives and AI systems use crawlers to collect the content they later index or answer from.