Real-user performance data could not be retrieved
What this check looks for
The Chrome UX Report API did not answer our request, so we have no real-user data to show. This is a failure on our side or Google's, not on yours.
Why it matters
It is reported rather than hidden so that a missing performance section is visibly a missing measurement, and not read as everything being fine.
What it costs your score
This check never deducts. It reports a fact — or reports that something could not be verified — and is shown on the report without moving the score.
- Severity
- info
- Default confidence
- confirmed
- Status when triggered
- info
- Deduction
- 0 points
- Family cap
- none
- Category
- Performance
- Module
- Perf crux
- Fix owned by
- third party
- In the ruleset since
- 2026.09
Technical detail
The query for ‹scope› failed: ‹reason›. ‹detail›
The common causes, all of which are ours to fix rather than yours:
- **Quota** — the CrUX API is limited to 150 queries per minute per Google Cloud project, shared across every scan this deployment runs. A burst of scans exhausts it and the API answers
429. We cache field data per URL and per origin specifically to keep well inside that limit. - **An unreadable answer** — the API returned something that did not match the documented response shape. We report that rather than guess at what it meant.
- **A transport failure or timeout** reaching
chromeuxreport.googleapis.com.
Retrying the scan in a minute or two usually clears a quota refusal. Nothing about the site's performance is asserted either way.
Standards and references
Test this on your domain
Run the check that produces this finding, on its own, against any domain.
Other perf crux checks
- The page jumps around while it loads for real visitors
- Real visitors stare at a blank page for too long
- Real-user experience over the last 28 days
- The page is slow to respond when real visitors interact with it
- Not enough real-user traffic for field data
- Real visitors wait too long for the main content to appear
- Real-user performance data was not requested
- The server takes too long to send the first byte to real visitors