Estimated Input Latency is an estimate of how long your app takes to respond to user input, in milliseconds, during the busiest 5s window of page load. If your latency is higher than 50 ms, users may perceive your app as laggy

First Meaningful Paint measures when the primary content of a page is visible

Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds

Large network payloads cost users real money and are highly correlated with long load times

Network round trip times (RTT) have a large impact on performance. If the RTT to an origin is high, it's an indication that servers closer to the user could improve performance

Image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP often provide better compression than PNG or JPEG, which means faster downloads and less data consumption

The Critical Request Chains below show you what resources are loaded with a high priority. Consider reducing the length of chains, reducing the download size of resources, or deferring the download of unnecessary resources to improve page load

Remove unused JavaScript to reduce bytes consumed by network activity

The maximum potential First Input Delay that your users could experience is the duration of the longest task

Minifying CSS files can reduce network payload sizes

Resources are blocking the first paint of your page. Consider delivering critical JS/CSS inline and deferring all non-critical JS/styles

A long cache lifetime can speed up repeat visits to your page

This is the largest contentful element painted within the viewport

Minifying JavaScript files can reduce payload sizes and script parse time

Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated

Remove dead rules from stylesheets and defer the loading of CSS not used for above-the-fold content to reduce unnecessary bytes consumed by network activity

Optimized images load faster and consume less cellular data

Cumulative Layout Shift measures the movement of visible elements within the viewport

All sites should be protected with HTTPS, even ones that don't handle sensitive data. This includes avoiding [mixed content](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/prevent-mixed-content/what-is-mixed-content), where some resources are loaded over HTTP despite the initial request being servedover HTTPS. HTTPS prevents intruders from tampering with or passively listening in on the communications between your app and your users, and is a prerequisite for HTTP/2 and many new web platform APIs

Lists the longest tasks on the main thread, useful for identifying worst contributors to input delay

Consider reducing the time spent parsing, compiling and executing JS. You may find delivering smaller JS payloads helps with this

These DOM elements contribute most to the CLS of the page.

Keep the server response time for the main document short because all other requests depend on it

Server latencies can impact web performance. If the server latency of an origin is high, it's an indication the server is overloaded or has poor backend performance

First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted

Text-based resources should be served with compression (gzip, deflate or brotli) to minimize total network bytes

First CPU Idle marks the first time at which the page's main thread is quiet enough to handle input. [Learn more](https://web.dev/first-cpu-idle/).

Some third-party scripts may contain known security vulnerabilities that are easily identified and exploited by attackers

Descriptive link text helps search engines understand your content

Time to interactive is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive

Consider reducing the time spent parsing, compiling, and executing JS. You may find delivering smaller JS payloads helps with this

Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted

Third-party code can significantly impact load performance. Limit the number of redundant third-party providers and try to load third-party code after your page has primarily finished loading

To set budgets for the quantity and size of page resources, add a budget.json file

A fast page load over a cellular network ensures a good mobile user experience

Serve images that are appropriately-sized to save cellular data and improve load time

Redirects introduce additional delays before the page can be loaded

A large DOM will increase memory usage, cause longer [style calculations](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/rendering/reduce-the-scope-and-complexity-of-style-calculations), and produce costly [layout reflows](https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/reflow)

Estimated Input Latency is an estimate of how long your app takes to respond to user input, in milliseconds, during the busiest 5s window of page load. If your latency is higher than 50 ms, users may perceive your app as laggy

Keep the server response time for the main document short because all other requests depend on it

Redirects introduce additional delays before the page can be loaded

Consider reducing the time spent parsing, compiling, and executing JS. You may find delivering smaller JS payloads helps with this

Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted

Remove dead rules from stylesheets and defer the loading of CSS not used for above-the-fold content to reduce unnecessary bytes consumed by network activity

Server latencies can impact web performance. If the server latency of an origin is high, it's an indication the server is overloaded or has poor backend performance

Large network payloads cost users real money and are highly correlated with long load times

Minifying CSS files can reduce network payload sizes

A large DOM will increase memory usage, cause longer [style calculations](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/rendering/reduce-the-scope-and-complexity-of-style-calculations), and produce costly [layout reflows](https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/reflow)

The maximum potential First Input Delay that your users could experience is the duration of the longest task

Image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP often provide better compression than PNG or JPEG, which means faster downloads and less data consumption

Font sizes less than 12px are too small to be legible and require mobile visitors to “pinch to zoom” in order to read. Strive to have >60% of page text ≥12px

Minifying JavaScript files can reduce payload sizes and script parse time

First CPU Idle marks the first time at which the page's main thread is quiet enough to handle input. [Learn more](https://web.dev/first-cpu-idle/).

A fast page load over a cellular network ensures a good mobile user experience

Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds

Text-based resources should be served with compression (gzip, deflate or brotli) to minimize total network bytes

All sites should be protected with HTTPS, even ones that don't handle sensitive data. This includes avoiding [mixed content](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/prevent-mixed-content/what-is-mixed-content), where some resources are loaded over HTTP despite the initial request being servedover HTTPS. HTTPS prevents intruders from tampering with or passively listening in on the communications between your app and your users, and is a prerequisite for HTTP/2 and many new web platform APIs

First Meaningful Paint measures when the primary content of a page is visible

First Contentful Paint 3G marks the time at which the first text or image is painted while on a 3G network

Optimized images load faster and consume less cellular data

Descriptive link text helps search engines understand your content

Interactive elements like buttons and links should be large enough (48x48px), and have enough space around them, to be easy enough to tap without overlapping onto other elements

Network round trip times (RTT) have a large impact on performance. If the RTT to an origin is high, it's an indication that servers closer to the user could improve performance

Serve images that are appropriately-sized to save cellular data and improve load time

The Critical Request Chains below show you what resources are loaded with a high priority. Consider reducing the length of chains, reducing the download size of resources, or deferring the download of unnecessary resources to improve page load

Consider reducing the time spent parsing, compiling and executing JS. You may find delivering smaller JS payloads helps with this

Some third-party scripts may contain known security vulnerabilities that are easily identified and exploited by attackers

To set budgets for the quantity and size of page resources, add a budget.json file

This is the largest contentful element painted within the viewport

Remove unused JavaScript to reduce bytes consumed by network activity

A long cache lifetime can speed up repeat visits to your page

Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated

Resources are blocking the first paint of your page. Consider delivering critical JS/CSS inline and deferring all non-critical JS/styles

First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted

Time to interactive is the amount of time it takes for the page to become fully interactive

Third-party code can significantly impact load performance. Limit the number of redundant third-party providers and try to load third-party code after your page has primarily finished loading

Lists the longest tasks on the main thread, useful for identifying worst contributors to input delay