The State of Web Vitals
LCP Deep Dive
Q1 2026 | 50,111 sites43.3%
LCP is an image
Element type
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TTFB (p75)
Biggest sub-part
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fetchpriority on LCP
On the actual LCP element
LCP has four sub-parts: TTFB, resource load delay, resource load time, and render delay. This chapter shows where the time goes, how the browser discovers the LCP resource, and which optimization signals sites actually use.
What is the LCP element?
Median LCP
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text1.4s24% of sites
img1.5s43% of sites
video1.6s3% of sites
background-image1.6s30% of sites
What is the LCP element? is img on 43.3% of sites (20,695 of 47,848), background-image on 29.9%, text on 24.4%, video on 2.5%.
Ranked fastest first: text 1.4s, img 1.5s, video 1.6s, background-image 1.6s.
LCP image format
Median LCP
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avif1.4s6% of sites
gif1.4s1% of sites
webp1.5s27% of sites
svg+xml1.6s2% of sites
jpg1.6s50% of sites
png1.6s15% of sites
*2.1s0% of sites
LCP image format is jpg on 50.0% of sites (15,567 of 31,141), webp on 27.0%, png on 14.5%, avif on 5.9%, svg+xml on 1.9%, gif on 0.5%.
Ranked fastest first: avif 1.4s, gif 1.4s, webp 1.5s, svg+xml 1.6s, jpg 1.6s, png 1.6s, * 2.1s.