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Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)

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This term is essentially a measure of the render time taken for the largest content file that a web user could see within their viewport at any given moment. Usually, that’ll be a high-definition photograph, a GIF, or other complex files. So the amount of time it takes for a photograph to load in the area of a web page that the user is viewing.  

The Largest Contentful Paint (LPC) is a metric used by Core Web Vitals, and the measurement can be broken down to three levels: 

Good: 0-2.5 seconds rendering time 

Medium: 2.5-4.0 seconds rendering time 

Poor: 4.0 seconds rendering time and above 

By understanding a web page’s LCP, marketers and web designers can work to bring each viewport towards the “Good” rating.  

Our Core Web Vitals Checker can determine what your LCP score is.

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