First Contentful Paint (FCP)

First Contentful Paint (FCP) is the time, from when the page starts loading, until any text, image, SVG, or non-white canvas element is first rendered in the viewport.

First Contentful Paint (FCP) is the time, from when the page starts loading, until any text, image, SVG, or non-white canvas element is first rendered in the viewport.

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Metric	Good	Needs Improvement	Poor
FCP	≤ 1.8 s	1.8 s, 3.0 s	> 3.0 s

FCP is reported by the Paint Timing API, Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, and CrUX, in seconds.