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Ha! Mostly, that's fair... but in this instance, I think it's a decent streamlining of things. It was kinda superfluous to have as well as the CWV report stuff. Rolling them into one does kinda make sense.

'Top 23 Reasons Google Killed The Page Experience Report - Number 18 Will Shock You!' Actually, maybe this trope needs updating? "ChatGPT, write 500 words on the death of the Page Experience report and why it means UX is a waste of time" 😂😭

It's the summary page - all the data is still in the CWV & HTTPS reports. No numbers are going away (and TBH the CWV numbers are in many places anyway).

Plus, it's a total distraction for devs or bad SEO agencies who use it as a way to monetize client work with visible metrics which don't normally move the search traffic needle (i.e. relevance to query does not improve with CWV metric improvement).

Totally. That and ridiculous recommendations around toxic backlink profile. Just ways to use a number to quantify charging for pointless activities. Plus, if everything else was pretty solid I’d be moving onto how to gow things through more strategic approaches over silly time-wasting tactics

Indeed. Especially when half the time, CWV doesn't relate to real-world performance. E.g. I can just install 2-3 WordPress plugins to get a 95/100 CWV score, yet the actual rendering of the page and it's payload is worse in reality.