Remember Google said they would soon begin testing a visual indicator in the search results for the upcoming Google Page Experience Update? Well, we may be seeing Google testing this visual indicator or icon or label in the search results. It looks like a star within a gray circle.
Here is a screen shot from Peyman Khalili, he notified me of this on Twitter (you can click on the image to enlarge it):
This indicator looks somewhat similar to the AMP icon:
I am not sure if this indicator will make a huge difference in terms of click through rate in the Google search results. I was expecting something more forceful but it does make sense to keep it subtle, so it looks like the other indicators.
Here is another:
Yes you got it pic.twitter.com/XaPyeJyoRt
— Peyman Khalili (@peyman_met) December 4, 2020
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: I was not 100% sure if this was the badge Google was testing for the page experience update but Martin Splitt of Google seems to have confirmed it on Twitter with these tweets:
— Martin Splitt @ home 🏡🇨🇭 (@g33konaut) December 5, 2020
It's a test right now, but once the page experience update rolls out in May, all pages passing the core web vitals thresholds should get it.
— Martin Splitt @ home 🏡🇨🇭 (@g33konaut) December 5, 2020
