The State of Web Vitals

Document lifecycle (lab)

Lab document lifecycle: DOM interactive, DOM complete, load event.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites Q2 2026 edition · Desktop field outcomes
Metric LCP INP CLS
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At a glance the headline numbers for Document lifecycle (lab)

Lab document lifecycle: DOM interactive, DOM complete, load event.

384ms
DOM interactive
on the typical page
672ms
DOM complete
on the typical page
676ms
load event
on the typical page
185,361
sites measured
desktop field data

The typical page reaches DOM interactive after 384ms in the lab.

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Distribution & median CLS site count and median CLS at each level of document lifecycle (lab) — dom interactive

0.00 0.04 0.08 0.11 0.15
0.1
0 32026 64052
0–249 250–499 500–749 750–999 1000–1249 1250–1499 1500–1749 1750–1999 2000+
Good (≤0.1) Needs improvement Poor (>0.25) Site count
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Passing CLS by document lifecycle (lab) — dom interactive which level passes the CLS most often

Document lifecycle (lab) — dom interactiveSitesPassing CLSCLS
0–249 64,052 79% 0.02
250–499 45,208 79% 0.03
500–749 22,832 78% 0.03
750–999 13,794 77% 0.03
1000–1249 9,160 76% 0.03
1250–1499 6,418 76% 0.03
1500–1749 4,500 74% 0.04
1750–1999 3,235 72% 0.04
2000+ 16,162 74% 0.04
Good Needs Improvement Poor Faded rows: under 100 sites

Document lifecycle (lab) — dom interactive 384ms. p75 859ms. p99 12.4s. At the low end (0–249ms): CLS 0.02. At the high end (2000+ms): CLS 0.04. computed

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Distribution & median CLS site count and median CLS at each level of document lifecycle (lab) — dom complete

0.00 0.04 0.08 0.11 0.15
0.1
0 35685 71370
0–499 500–999 1000–1499 1500–1999 2000–2499 2500–2999 3000+
Good (≤0.1) Needs improvement Poor (>0.25) Site count
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Passing CLS by document lifecycle (lab) — dom complete which level passes the CLS most often

Document lifecycle (lab) — dom completeSitesPassing CLSCLS
0–499 71,370 81% 0.02
500–999 48,257 78% 0.03
1000–1499 23,177 77% 0.03
1500–1999 12,516 76% 0.03
2000–2499 7,351 73% 0.04
2500–2999 4,705 74% 0.04
3000+ 17,985 73% 0.04
Good Needs Improvement Poor Faded rows: under 100 sites

Document lifecycle (lab) — dom complete 672ms. p75 1.4s. p99 24.1s. At the low end (0–499ms): CLS 0.02. At the high end (3000+ms): CLS 0.04. computed

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Distribution & median CLS site count and median CLS at each level of document lifecycle (lab) — load

0.00 0.04 0.08 0.11 0.15
0.1
0 35483 70966
0–499 500–999 1000–1499 1500–1999 2000–2499 2500–2999 3000+
Good (≤0.1) Needs improvement Poor (>0.25) Site count
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Passing CLS by document lifecycle (lab) — load which level passes the CLS most often

Document lifecycle (lab) — loadSitesPassing CLSCLS
0–499 70,966 81% 0.02
500–999 48,205 78% 0.03
1000–1499 23,226 77% 0.03
1500–1999 12,590 76% 0.03
2000–2499 7,445 73% 0.04
2500–2999 4,759 74% 0.04
3000+ 18,170 73% 0.04
Good Needs Improvement Poor Faded rows: under 100 sites

Document lifecycle (lab) — load 676ms. p75 1.4s. p99 24.1s. At the low end (0–499ms): CLS 0.02. At the high end (3000+ms): CLS 0.04. computed

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Why this matters for the Core Web Vitals, and where to start fixing it

The document lifecycle is the old way of measuring pages, and it still says useful things. DOM interactive marks the HTML fully parsed. DOM complete waits for the subresources. The load event is the official end of loading, and everything that listens for it (analytics, widgets, third-party tags) starts there.

A long gap between interactive and complete means resource weight, not markup. These milestones do not map onto user experience the way the vitals do, which is why they were replaced. But a page with a slow lifecycle does not produce fast vitals.

How does this affect the Core Web Vitals?

Document lifecycle (lab) correlates with the CLS. DOM complete separates passing sites from failing sites the most. Where the DOM complete is low, 81% of sites pass the CLS. Where it is high, 73% do. The decline is gradual. There is no point where sites suddenly start failing.

Go fix it How we measured → Head vs footer JavaScript →
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