Ines Akrap

What you need to know about Core Web Vitals

Is your site ready for the new Interaction to Next Paint metric? Learn how to optimize this crucial Core Web Vital and improve your page's responsiveness.

What you need to know about Core Web Vitals
#1about 5 minutes

Understanding user experience through a city commute analogy

Web navigation is compared to a daily city commute to illustrate user friction points like loading times and the overall importance of speed.

#2about 4 minutes

Introducing the three Core Web Vitals metrics

Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, and the upcoming INP) are key metrics Google uses to quantify the user experience of a website.

#3about 6 minutes

Measuring performance with field and lab data

Field data from real user monitoring (RUM) shows if a problem exists, while lab data from tools like Lighthouse helps debug and fix it.

#4about 14 minutes

Optimizing Largest Contentful Paint for faster loading

Improve LCP by optimizing server response time, eliminating resource delays, and managing render-blocking JavaScript and CSS.

#5about 10 minutes

Ensuring visual stability by fixing Cumulative Layout Shift

Prevent unexpected page movement by setting dimensions for images and ads, using the Back/forward cache, and optimizing font loading.

#6about 3 minutes

Understanding the shift from FID to Interaction to Next Paint

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) replaces First Input Delay (FID) to provide a more comprehensive measure of a page's responsiveness.

#7about 7 minutes

Strategies for optimizing Interaction to Next Paint

Improve INP by breaking up long JavaScript tasks, using the facade pattern for heavy components, and yielding to the main thread.

#8about 9 minutes

Navigating web complexity and performance budgets

A discussion on whether the web has become too complex and how performance budgets can help maintain a good user experience.

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