LCP
LCP, or largest contentful paint, measures how long it takes for the biggest thing on screen to appear.
In a little more detail
It is the closest single number to how slow a page feels. Anything over about two and a half seconds is felt by the person waiting.
Related terms
- Core Web Vitals: Core Web Vitals are Google's three measurements of how fast and stable a page feels to a real person.
- Rendering: Rendering is the step where a browser runs a page's code to build what you finally see on screen.
See it on your own site
The scan reads your site the way AI search does and reports where you stand on this and sixteen other checks.