Glossary
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Canonical URL
The canonical URL is the address a site declares as the official one for a page when the same content is reachable at several addresses. Engines index that one and credit it with the links of the others.
Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals are three measures of a page's experience as felt by real visitors: loading (LCP), responsiveness (INP) and visual stability (CLS). Google uses them as a small ranking signal and reports them in Search Console.
Crawling
Crawling is the way a search engine discovers and reads pages: a robot follows links and sitemaps, fetches each page, and hands its content to indexing. What the crawler cannot reach does not exist for the engine.