First Contentful Paint

First Contentful Paint

Stiven Castillo
June 07, 2023

FCP stands for First Contentful Paint. It is a web performance metric that measures the time it takes for the first piece of content to be rendered on the screen. This could be a text, image, or other element.

FCP is important because it is a measure of how quickly a user can see something on the page. A fast FCP means that the user will have a better experience, as they will be able to start interacting with the page sooner.

There are a number of things that can affect FCP, including:

  • The size and complexity of the page
  • The use of images and other large resources
  • The loading speed of the server

There are a number of things that you can do to improve FCP, including:

  • Minifying and compressing your CSS and JavaScript files
  • Using lazy loading for images and other large resources
  • Serving your pages from a CDN

FCP is one of the Core Web Vitals metrics, which are a set of performance metrics that Google uses to measure the quality of a web page. A good FCP score is considered to be under 2.5 seconds.