First Contentful Paint (FCP)
First Contentful Paint (FCP) measures the time from when a page starts loading to when any part of its content appears on screen. It’s one of Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics that helps evaluate your site’s performance. A good FCP score (under 1.8 seconds) improves user experience and positively affects your search rankings. Optimising server response times, reducing render-blocking resources, and streamlining CSS can all help improve your FCP.
See also: Core Web Vitals, Longest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID)
Further reading: How to Test and Improve Website Load Time
