FCP distribution
How FCP is distributed across real-user data, plus pass-rate breakdown.
At a glance the headline numbers for FCP distribution
How FCP is distributed across real-user data, plus pass-rate breakdown.
0.0% of sites good on FCP. The typical site's FCP is —. The worst 10% are above —.
FCP Distribution the value at each percentile across all sites
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.
Chrome field data from 189,915 sites, representing millions of real page loads. How we measured.