Can Website Downtime Affect Google Ranking? Yes!

Frustrated man looking at a laptop with a server error warning on screen, alongside SEO metrics like FCP and LCP, symbolizing how website downtime impacts Google ranking.

Your website doesn’t need to be down for hours to hurt your Google ranking. Even just 30 minutes of weekly downtime can quietly wreck your SEO through Core Web Vitals. Here’s what you need to know and how to fix it.