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Why Google Shows No Core Web Vitals Data (And How Yogi’s VPS Helps Fix It)

If Google Search Console is showing “Not enough data” in your Core Web Vitals report, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common issues we see with new sites, low-traffic projects, and websites that were recently migrated to a new host or redesigned.

The good news? It doesn’t always mean your site is “slow” — it often means Google simply doesn’t have enough real-world performance data yet. Below, we’ll walk through what’s really happening behind the scenes and how you (and Yogi’s VPS) can help fix it.

What It Means When Core Web Vitals Data Is Missing

Google’s Core Web Vitals in Search Console rely on the Chrome UX Report (CrUX) — a dataset built from real Chrome users loading your site. This is field data, not lab data.

When the report is empty, it usually means that one or more of these are true:

• Your site doesn’t have enough real-user traffic yet
• Traffic is too low on mobile, desktop, or both
• The site is very new
• You recently migrated to a new host or server
• You changed permalink structure or site layout
• You switched from http → https
• Your infrastructure changed (new caching, CDN, IP, etc.)

How to Fix It: Practical Steps You Can Take

While you can’t force Google to show Core Web Vitals instantly, you can absolutely create the conditions for that data to appear as quickly and cleanly as possible.

1. Make Sure Your Key Pages Are Indexed

If Google isn’t indexing your pages, it can’t collect any field data from them. Start with your most important URLs: homepage, services, lead-gen pages, and top blog posts.

In Google Search Console:

• Use URL Inspection
• Click Test Live URL
• Click Request Indexing

If you’re hosted on Yogi’s VPS, this is something we can help verify as part of your onboarding or performance audit.

2. Increase Real-User (Chrome) Traffic

Google needs a minimum number of real visits to confidently report Core Web Vitals. For small sites, that threshold can take time to hit.

Good ways to increase qualified traffic:

• Share your pages on social media
• Run a small, targeted Google Ads campaign
• Send traffic via email newsletters
• Publish and share SEO-focused blog posts
• Feature your site in relevant communities or directories

Even hitting around 100–300 Chrome users per day can be enough for Google to start building a usable CrUX dataset.

3. Avoid Constant Structural Changes

Every major change to your site structure creates “new” URLs from Google’s perspective, which effectively resets data for those pages.

These changes can reset Core Web Vitals data:

• Switching themes or page builders
• Migrating to a new host or server
• Changing permalink structure
• Switching from http to https
• Moving from URL patterns like /blog/post to /post

After a major change, Google typically needs at least 28 days of new data before Core Web Vitals reports stabilize again.

On Yogi’s VPS, we aim to make migrations and performance tweaks as smooth and minimal as possible so we don’t keep resetting your data unnecessarily.

4. Use PageSpeed Insights While You Wait (Lab Data)

Even if Search Console doesn’t have field data yet, you can still work on performance using lab tools like PageSpeed Insights.

This gives you lab values for:

• LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
• CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)
• INP / FID (Interactivity)
• TBT (Total Blocking Time)
• Speed Index
• FCP (First Contentful Paint)

As part of our optimization service at Yogi’s VPS, we run PageSpeed, Lighthouse, and server-level diagnostics to find the exact bottlenecks holding your site back.

5. Make Sure Googlebot Can Load All Assets

If key assets like CSS, JavaScript, or fonts are blocked or broken, Google may not render your site correctly — which can affect how performance is evaluated.

Check:

• /robots.txt
• Security plugins and firewalls
• CDN and WAF rules

Make sure you are not blocking:

• /wp-content/
• /wp-includes/

When we onboard sites to Yogi’s VPS, we routinely check these paths and server rules to make sure Google can see what it needs.

6. Make Sure HTTPS Is Fully Enabled

If some assets still load over HTTP, you can run into mixed content issues, which can confuse both browsers and Google’s reporting.

A quick tool to check: Why No Padlock?

On Yogi’s VPS, we enforce HTTPS with proper redirects and can help clean up any leftover mixed content warnings.

7. Keep Staging Sites Out of Google’s Index

If both your staging and production sites are crawlable, traffic (and performance data) gets split between them. That fragmentation makes it harder for any single property to meet Google’s thresholds.

Best practices for staging:

• Password protect staging environments
• Set noindex on staging
• Use robots.txt to discourage crawling

We configure this by default on Yogi’s VPS so your “real” site is the only one collecting meaningful data.

What You Cannot Do (No Matter the Plugin)

To set expectations clearly, here’s what’s not possible — no matter what any plugin or tool claims:

• You cannot manually upload Core Web Vitals data to Google
• You cannot force Google to generate CrUX data instantly
• GTmetrix, Pingdom, or Lighthouse tests do not create field data
• PageSpeed Insights lab results do not equal CrUX field data
• No plugin can “fix Core Web Vitals indexing” — that’s not how Google’s system works

How Long Until Core Web Vitals Show Up?

Once your site has enough real traffic, Google typically needs at least 28 days to build and surface Core Web Vitals data in Search Console.

In the real world, we usually see:

• 4–8 weeks for smaller or low-traffic sites
• 24–48 hours for large, high-traffic sites

Sites hosted on Yogi’s VPS tend to stabilize faster thanks to clean server configs, caching, CDN integration, and consistent uptime — all of which help remove noise from the data Google collects.