Glossary
Core Web Vitals
Definition
Google’s page-experience metrics: how fast the main content loads, how quickly the page responds to interaction, and how much the layout shifts while loading. Measured from real visits, and a factor in rankings.
The metrics formalize what visitors already punish: slow, unstable pages lose people before the content gets a chance. For agent sites the common offenders are oversized photos, third-party widgets, and page builders that ship a small application to render a paragraph.
Static pages with restrained scripts pass comfortably, which is one reason we build that way. This site ships no JavaScript at all, and that is not a stunt; it is the discipline, applied.
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