How to show web vitals in theme admin part

Topic summary

Issue: The Web Performance/Web Vitals section is not appearing in a client’s Shopify theme admin (image provided).

Likely causes and requirements:

  • The account needs the “Reports” permission to view web performance reports. Without it, the section won’t show.
  • Reports aren’t instantaneous; they require sufficient real traffic after the theme is published. If the theme is newly published or has low traffic, data may not be available yet.

Documentation location: Web performance is documented under the Online Store (online sales channel), not as a top-level “Themes” topic, which can make it harder to find.

Recommended actions:

Status: No confirmed resolution; guidance provided to check permissions and wait for data.

Summarized with AI on December 10. AI used: gpt-5.

My client theme dashboard cannot show this part I wonder know why.
where did i miss or lack of some permissions?

Permissions for reports is required , read the friendly manually thoroughly they’ve buried a ton of info all other the place making it hard to find. Like web-vitals/performance isn’t even a top level chapter for the themes docs it’s up a level for the online-sales channel

Then generally needs to be enough actual real data to show anything it’s not some instantaneous magic it needs real traffic AFTER a theme is published.

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/web-performance/web-performance-reports#view-reports