Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've launched Last Painted Hero as an official metric. Last Painted Hero is a synthetic metric that shows you when the last piece of critical content is painted. We call those parts of the page the "hero elements". The case for smarter heuristics.

Metrics 56

Metrics Website Speed Media 56

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this correlation chart, you can see that conversion rate peaks at just over 6% for sessions with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) times of 1.1 Third parties add tons of value by increasing conversions (via targeting beacons) and helping you understand your users in unprecedented ways (via analytics tags). – your page renders.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Marks the point in the page load timeline when the page’s important content has likely loaded. The metric measures the total amount of time between the first paint and Time to Interactive (TTI) where the main thread was blocked for long enough to prevent input responsiveness.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Throughout the experiment I will suggest performance tips to speed up the first contentful paint and perceived loading time of the page. Chrome devtools screenshot of the DOM, where I’ve expanded one inline style tag. Google Homepage — DOM.

Cache 96

Cache Google Mobile Network 96