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Lighthouse gives this page a 95. Why does Search Console call the same page a failure?
What you'll have at the end
A short note naming which Core Web Vitals metric disagrees, and whether the real fix is a field problem or a lab artifact.
You need
A page whose Lighthouse report already looks clean, plus access to that property's Search Console account showing the same page's URL group as Poor or Needs improvement for at least one Core Web Vitals metric.
Not covered
Fixing the exact layout shift, slow interaction, or slow paint once it is named. That repair is a separate recipe, matched to whichever metric and mechanism turn up here.
Leans on
Name which INP phase slows your worst interaction
the verdict here points at Interaction to Next Paint as the metric a lab run cannot score, and this recipe traces that metric down to the exact slow phase.
Stop an unsized image from shoving the page down
if the verdict instead points at an unsized image or embed as the layout-shift cause, that repair is a separate, more mechanical fix.
Checked 25 Aug 2026
Part of the Core Web Vitals and Performance Metrics cookbook