WordPress Long Animation Frame work and the Core Web Vitals
26.1% of audited sites (16,123) record over 250ms of work inside Long Animation Frames, pushing median field INP to 51ms (100% good INP) versus 47ms (100% good INP) under 80ms.
16.7% of WordPress sites use under 80ms of LoAF work Long Animation Frame work, and 100% of those sites have a good INP, against 100% of all WordPress sites.
INP pass rate
Sites with under 80ms of LoAF work Long Animation Frame work have a good INP most often: 100%, against 100% of all WordPress sites. Sites with 80 to 130ms of LoAF work LoAF duration have it least often, at 100%.
Long Animation Frame work usage
130 to 250ms of LoAF work is the most used: 29.9% of WordPress sites. Under 80ms of LoAF work is 16.7% of WordPress sites.
Long Animation Frame work per framework
On jQuery, 30% of sites use 130 to 250ms of LoAF work Long Animation Frame work, and 100% of jQuery sites have a good INP, against 100% of all sites. On Vue, 34% of sites use 130 to 250ms of LoAF work, and 99% of Vue sites have a good INP.
Long Animation Frame work or the framework
Does the framework explain the Long Animation Frame work difference?
On jQuery, 100% of sites with under 80ms of LoAF work Long Animation Frame work have a good INP, against 100% of jQuery sites with 130 to 250ms of LoAF work. Within jQuery, sites with under 80ms of LoAF work and 130 to 250ms of LoAF work have a good INP about equally often. On Vue, 99% of sites with under 80ms of LoAF work Long Animation Frame work have a good INP, against 100% of Vue sites with 130 to 250ms of LoAF work. Within Vue, sites with under 80ms of LoAF work and 130 to 250ms of LoAF work have a good INP about equally often.
Why Long Animation Frames pinpoint real INP bottlenecks
Unlike classic Long Tasks, the Long Animation Frames API captures the full rendering update alongside script execution, exposing forced synchronous reflows and expensive style recalculations. Across 10,303 sites (16.7%) with under 80ms of LoAF work, 100% pass field INP at an 47ms median, compared with 100% (51ms median) on the 26.1% (16,123) exceeding 250ms.
Understanding Long Animation Frame work
Eliminate jQuery layout thrashing and split heavy plugin initialization callbacks across frames. On WordPress, 16.7% of sites stay under 80ms of LoAF work (47ms median INP) while 26.1% exceed 250ms (51ms median INP).
By Arjen Karel · 63,295 crawled WordPress sites (17,005 with desktop Chrome field data, 61,747 sites with Long Animation Frame work, October 2026). How we measured.