# Chrome UX Report review (2026): is it any good? > Google's public dataset of real Chrome users' Core Web Vitals Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. The Chrome UX Report, or CrUX, is a public Google dataset of how real Chrome users experience popular websites, covering every Core Web Vitals metric. Google Search uses it for its page experience signal. Site owners read it through the CrUX API, the History API, the CrUX Vis dashboard and a monthly BigQuery dataset going back to 2017, and it also feeds PageSpeed Insights and Search Console. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** Google - **Website:** https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your site gets little traffic, as pages and origins below the threshold show no data. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Chrome UX Report is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** The dataset, APIs and CrUX Vis are free; the APIs need a Google Cloud API key, and BigQuery is free up to its monthly free tier. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | CrUX API, History API, CrUX Vis and the BigQuery dataset, for any origin or page with enough Chrome visits. | Read from https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/bigquery on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Chrome UX Report before buying. ## Key features - **Real-user Core Web Vitals:** Collected from real Chrome browsers around the world, covering LCP, INP, CLS and the other user-centric metrics for origins and pages. - **CrUX API:** Returns a rolling 28-day average of key metrics for an origin or URL, updated daily, for use in your own scripts and tools. - **CrUX History API:** Gives the previous 40 weeks of data, one 28-day period per week, split by phone, tablet and desktop and released every Monday. - **CrUX Vis dashboard:** Charts an origin's or page's weekly history over 40 weeks across Core Web Vitals, loading and visual stability pages, with a shareable URL. - **BigQuery dataset:** Monthly tables from 2017 onward with all metrics and dimensions, including country, released on the second Tuesday of the following month. ## Good for - Checking how a site's Core Web Vitals look to Google's real-user data - Benchmarking a site's speed against competitors' origins - Analysts studying web performance trends with SQL ## Worth knowing - Only publicly discoverable origins and pages with enough Chrome visitors are included; sites below that show no data. - Data comes from Chrome users who meet Google's eligibility rules, not from other browsers. - The APIs have no country dimension and the BigQuery tables are origin-level only; per-country data is in BigQuery alone. - BigQuery needs a Google Cloud account with billing; queries beyond the monthly free tier are charged by Google Cloud. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. The Chrome UX Report is Google's public dataset of how real Chrome users experience popular sites, read through an API, a 40-week history, the CrUX Vis dashboard or BigQuery. But sites without enough Chrome traffic aren't in it, it only counts Chrome users, the APIs have no country breakdown, and BigQuery past the free tier is billed. - **Value for money: A.** Free from Google: the dataset, both APIs and CrUX Vis cost nothing, and BigQuery queries are free up to Google Cloud's monthly free tier. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free outright. The APIs need a Google Cloud API key, and only BigQuery use past the free tier is charged. - **Features: D.** One narrow job: real-user Core Web Vitals for origins and pages with enough Chrome traffic, as data. It runs no tests and suggests no fixes, and sites below its traffic threshold show nothing. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. CrUX Vis is a dashboard you just open, but the APIs need an API key and the BigQuery tables need SQL and a Cloud account. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with the CrUX API, the History API and BigQuery, and it feeds PageSpeed Insights and Search Console. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Google's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among technical SEO tools - Chrome UX Report's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 64 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 62 of 83) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Chrome UX Report has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Chrome UX Report is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 64 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, BigQuery, PageSpeed Insights and Google Search Console among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with BigQuery, PageSpeed Insights, Google Search Console **Tags:** Page speed, Public API, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [PageSpeed Insights](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pagespeed-insights): Free Google speed test with real-user Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrome-ux-report-vs-pagespeed-insights) - [Treo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/treo): Core Web Vitals dashboard built on CrUX data and Lighthouse runs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrome-ux-report-vs-treo) - [DebugBear](https://toolgpa.com/tools/debugbear): Page speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring with lab tests and RUM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrome-ux-report-vs-debugbear) - [CoreDash](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coredash): Real-user Core Web Vitals monitoring with element-level attribution. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrome-ux-report-vs-coredash) - [RUMvision](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rumvision): EU-based real-user monitoring for Core Web Vitals and third parties. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chrome-ux-report-vs-rumvision) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/bigquery - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/api - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/history-api - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/vis - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux/methodology/tools Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/chrome-ux-report Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).