Picture this: you’re loading a website, and it looks ready to go. You click on a blog featured image to read the article, and suddenly the whole page shifts because something else just loaded. And you click on something entirely different and load a page you never intended. If you’ve experienced this problem yourself, you know how Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) can negatively impact a site’s User Experience (UX).
Cumulative Layout Shift is the term for how much a page’s layout shifts while it loads, and in this article we’ll dig a bit more into what it means. We’ll show you how to measure CLS, and explain what a good score is. Then we’ll discuss how to optimize your website’s CLS score. Let’s get to work!
