Reviews & Comments of Web Vitals chrome extension
From July 18th, 2020 to February 23rd, 2023, 21% user give 5-star rating, 36% user give 4-star rating, 21% user give 3-star rating, 7% user give 2-star rating, 14% user give 1-star rating. for Web Vitals chrome extension.
Reviews of web vitals:
It's great but the flickering numbers is just make using this a trouble, I wish I could disable that in settings but I can't. It distracts me every time it blinks so I should unpin it and everytime I need to check if everything is ok I should click "Extensions" over and over again.
Doesn't work most of the time. Just says "Web Vitals are unavailable for this page"
It shows the CLS score. That's a big help. But WHY the CLS score? That's still a mystery. The extension should perhaps provide a gif showing the CLS score in a video. This would be especially useful after an event. (i.e. suddent jump in CLS after clicking a button)
Doesnt' work very well. Same page is getting too much different results
Goofle Page Insights gave a test page an LCP of 3.1 where as this extension give it a LCP of 0.41 - they cant both be right and as far as Google is concerned it will use it's LCP value not the extensions LCP rating. So for me - this has added a confusion I can do without. I will go back and use page insights rating. Shame as this would have been a great extension. Maybe the dev could add their opinion.
I'm having really weird issues with the extension when it comes to CLS. The scores on PS Insights and Chrome Dev Tools consistently report 0.000 CLS for numerous pages, but when I'm using the plugin and I navigate from search or from one of our pages to another, the initial CLS score is always extremely high despite almost no visual layout shift whatsoever. Then, if you reload the page any number of times, the subsequent scores are always 0.000. If there is some kind of issue with layout shift that the tool is detecting, I would love to know what it is, but the tool doesn't give you any direction whatsoever as to what elements are causing the layout shift and I can't replicate that score anywhere else, so I have no idea what to fix. In some cases, I've resorted to deleting entire pages on the site and then checking the score with the extension and it will read a crazy high CLS, like 5.74. How can there be such a huge layout shift on a page with no content? Lol. It's really frustrating.
This extension is terrific. I wanted a way to measure Cumulative Layout Shifts while toggling different pieces of UI in my page. This was harder to do with some of Chrome's other tools, but the vitals extension made this pretty straight-forward. Great work.
works for me but getting very different (much better) results from https://web.dev/measure, any idea why?
Is good for Largest Contentful Paint & Cumulative Layout Shift but First Input Delay seems to be stuck on waiting for input on a lot of sites (I only got data on 1 of 20 websites I visited).
Love the extension! It would be valuable to see mobile metrics vs desktop though as Google looks at the mobile version first of all.
Works very well, gives the CLS value as needed. However, the plugin needs more optimising as it tends to spiral my browser CPU out of control (macbook).
No longer works. Says metrics unavailable
Very Well
Works well