seo-core-web-vitals

seo-core-web-vitals is a skill for Claude Code from lionkiii/claude-seo-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A detailed check of Core Web Vitals, Google’s real-world measures of loading speed, responsiveness, and visual stability. It examines LCP, INP, and CLS using field data or testing data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Diagnosing slow main-content loading, delayed responses to user actions, and shifting page layouts against Google’s thresholds.
Why use it?
It shows which performance measurements fail and connects each problem to specific technical fixes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-seo-skills plugin — 51 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Diagnosing slow main-content loading, delayed responses to user actions, and shifting page layouts against Google’s thresholds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-core-web-vitals
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add lionkiii/claude-seo-skills --skill seo-core-web-vitals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-seo-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,021 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00099 $0.02021
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00202

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9899840d645, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-core-web-vitals scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST "https://chromeuxreport.googleapis.com/v1/records:queryRecord?key=$CRUX_API_KEY" \
skills/seo-core-web-vitals/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core Web Vitals Deep-Dive

Core Web Vitals (CWV) measure real-world loading performance, responsiveness, and visual stability. Google's position, per https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/core-web-vitals: CWV are used by Google's core ranking systems and good CWV is recommended for success with Search — but good scores alone do not guarantee top rankings; there is more to page experience than CWV, and chasing a perfect score purely for SEO is not the best use of time.

INP replaced FID on March 12, 2024. FID is gone from all Chrome tooling. Never reference FID as a current metric.

Thresholds

Each metric is evaluated at the 75th percentile of real page loads, segmented by mobile and desktop. A page "passes" CWV when all three metrics are Good at p75.

Metric Measures Good Needs Improvement Poor
LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) Loading ≤ 2.5s 2.5s – 4.0s > 4.0s
INP (Interaction to Next Paint) Responsiveness ≤ 200ms 200ms – 500ms > 500ms
CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) Visual stability ≤ 0.1 0.1 – 0.25 > 0.25

References: https://web.dev/articles/lcp · https://web.dev/articles/inp · https://web.dev/articles/cls · https://web.dev/articles/vitals

Inputs

Input Required Notes
URL or origin Yes URL-level data preferred; origin-level as fallback
Form factor No Default: report both mobile (PHONE) and desktop
CrUX API key No Degrade to PSI API if absent

Execution

  1. Field data — CrUX API (preferred, needs an API key):
    curl -s -X POST "https://chromeuxreport.googleapis.com/v1/records:queryRecord?key=$CRUX_API_KEY" \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
      -d '{"url": "<url>", "formFactor": "PHONE", "metrics": ["largest_contentful_paint","interaction_to_next_paint","cumulative_layout_shift"]}'
    
    Docs: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/api
    • If the URL has insufficient traffic (404 response), retry with "origin" instead of "url" and note that results are origin-level.
    • No API key? Degrade gracefully to step 2 — do not fail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 154 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A b9899840d645

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seo-core-web-vitals is a skill published in the GitHub repository lionkiii/claude-seo-skills (20 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,021 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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