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At a glance the headline numbers for FCP distribution
How FCP is distributed across real-user data, plus pass-rate breakdown.
75.5%
of sites good on FCP
75.5% of sites good on FCP. The typical site's FCP is 1.2s. The worst 10% are above 2.6s.
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The FCP distribution site count at each FCP, from good to poor
0 5,454 10,908 16,361 21,815
0ms–250msms17 sites<0.1% of all sites 250ms–500msms2,550 sites2.2% of all sites 500ms–750msms13,967 sites12.2% of all sites 750ms–1sms21,815 sites19% of all sites 1s–1.3sms20,149 sites17.6% of all sites 1.3s–1.5sms15,169 sites13.2% of all sites 1.5s–1.8sms11,016 sites9.6% of all sites 1.8s–2sms7,606 sites6.6% of all sites 2s–2.3sms5,537 sites4.8% of all sites 2.3s–2.5sms4,221 sites3.7% of all sites 2.5s–2.8sms2,925 sites2.6% of all sites 2.8s–3sms2,204 sites1.9% of all sites 3s–3.3sms1,753 sites1.5% of all sites 3.3s–3.5sms1,245 sites1.1% of all sites 3.5s–3.8sms952 sites0.8% of all sites 3.8s–4sms730 sites0.6% of all sites 4s–4.3sms544 sites0.5% of all sites 4.3s–4.5sms422 sites0.4% of all sites 4.5s–4.8sms337 sites0.3% of all sites 4.8s–5sms252 sites0.2% of all sites 5s–5.3sms211 sites0.2% of all sites 5.3s–5.5sms155 sites0.1% of all sites 5.5s–5.8sms131 sites0.1% of all sites 5.8s–6sms100 sites0.1% of all sites 6s–6.3sms88 sites0.1% of all sites 6.3s–6.5sms70 sites0.1% of all sites 6.5s–6.8sms62 sites0.1% of all sites 6.8s–7sms51 sites<0.1% of all sites 7s–7.3sms42 sites<0.1% of all sites 7.3s–7.5sms24 sites<0.1% of all sites 7.5s–7.8sms16 sites<0.1% of all sites 7.8s–8sms17 sites<0.1% of all sites 8sms and up148 sites0.1% of all sites p50 = 1.2s
p75 = 1.8s
p90 = 2.6s
p99 = 5s
0ms–250ms 250ms–500ms 500ms–750ms 750ms–1s 1s–1.3s 1.3s–1.5s 1.5s–1.8s 1.8s–2s 2s–2.3s 2.3s–2.5s 2.5s–2.8s 2.8s–3s 3s–3.3s 3.3s–3.5s 3.5s–3.8s 3.8s–4s 4s–4.3s 4.3s–4.5s 4.5s–4.8s 4.8s–5s 5s–5.3s 5.3s–5.5s 5.5s–5.8s 5.8s–6s 6s–6.3s 6.3s–6.5s 6.5s–6.8s 6.8s–7s 7s–7.3s 7.3s–7.5s 7.5s–7.8s 7.8s–8s 8s+
Good (≤1.8s) Needs improvement Poor (>3s) Percentile markers Total: 114,526 sites
The tallest bar is between 750ms and 1s. 19% of sites are in that one range, 800ms under Google's 1.8s limit. Half of all sites are at 1.2s or less. The tail is long. The worst 10% are above 2.6s and the worst 1% above 5.0s. That is 4 times the typical site.
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The FCP pass rate the share of sites that are good, needs improvement and poor
Good Needs Improvement Poor
75.5% of sites are good on FCP. 18.1% are in the needs improvement band, between 1.8s and 3s. 6.4% are poor, above 3s. A miss is usually needs improvement, not poor.
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Why this matters for the Core Web Vitals, and where to start fixing it
First Contentful Paint is when the first piece of content appears, the first text or image that tells the visitor something is happening. It is a diagnostic metric rather than a Core Web Vital, but it sits on the path to LCP: if the first paint is slow, the largest paint is almost always slow too. FCP is usually held up by the server response and by render-blocking CSS and JavaScript in the head.
Start with what blocks the first paint. Cut render-blocking resources, remove the CSS you do not use, and get the critical bytes to the browser as early as you can. Early Hints can let the browser start fetching key resources before the HTML even arrives. Improving FCP tends to pull LCP along with it.
How are sites doing on FCP?
75.5% of sites have a good FCP. The typical site sits at 1.8s at the 75th percentile; the slowest 1% pass 5.0s.
Chrome field data from 189,915 sites, representing millions of real page loads. How we measured.