Google closes Web Vitals: what does this mean to developers
Publication date:02.09.2025
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Web Technology News
The latest version of Chrome that supports Web Vitals extension is Chrome 132. All the key functions of this extension are now fully integrated into the Performance Devtools panel.
Although about 200,000 users used extensions, the Chrome team decided to concentrate exclusively on Devtools, which offers a more powerful and centralized platform to adjust the site performance.
🚀Web vitals was great for early Core Web Vitals monitoring, but now devtools offers the same functionality - and even more. By moving everything to Devtools, Google provides developers with a more smoothed process of performance optimization.
- 📌 Performance panel in Devtools now reproduces and expands extension:
- 📌 Live Metrics: Real Time Core Web Vitals data for your local tests.
- 📌 Field Data: Compare local metrics with CRUX data for URL addresses and origin, including desktop computers and mobile devices.
Q: What developers should do next?
A: If you are still using Web vitals extensions, it's time to switch to devtools.
Q: Are there any instructions for those who can't go?
A: Google even created a transition guide to simplify this process. For those who cannot go, Google shared instructions to maintain a local copy of the extension.
🧩 Summary: Google has taken a step showing their obligation to make Devtools the best tool for performance monitoring for developers. The Performance panel covers everything from the main web vitalies to advanced diagnostic products, and the updates will soon come.
🧠 Own considerations: this step from Google can cause changes in how developers are coming to monitor the performance of their sites. Although web vitals expansion was a useful tool, its best features now live in Devtools, which facilitates the developers monitoring and optimizing the site performance from one place.
✍️ Автор: Володимир Катюшин, експерт у сфері вебтехнологій.
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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-retires-web-vitals-extension-moves-everything-to-devtools/537401/