Page-one results pass Core Web Vitals 47.6% of the time vs 44.2% on page two; among competitive sites the gap widens to 7.6 points.
Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of 64,864 ranking positions with CrUX field data, June 2026.
These are observational field results; association, not causation.
Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of top-20 ranking pages with CrUX field data, June 2026.
Ranking pages that fail Core Web Vitals overwhelmingly fail on LCP and INP, not CLS.