Google Releases New Video: How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint

This ~22-minute video is a solid foundation for those who want to improve their Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score.
SIA Team
October 6, 2021

Yesterday, on October 5th, 2021, the Google Search Central Twitter channel had a tweet that announced a new video:

That tweet linked to Google’s new video that’s on it’s Search Central YouTube channel, titled, How to improve Largest Contentful Paint

In the video, Patrick Kettner, who’s a Developer Advocate for Google, covers a number of topics pertaining to this subject. 

Here’s a list of the chapters covered, each with a timestamp link to the associated portion of the video.

Chapters 

0:00 Introduction 

2:30 What is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) 

4:08 How is LCP measured 

4:37 What is a good LCP score 

5:55 How to find your LCP score 

8:49 Elements that affect LCP 

9:00 Servers 

9:43 Networks 

11:33 Front end code 

19:00 Edgecases 

21:48 Conclusion 

What’s a Good LCP Score?

One thing I learned from this video is that a good LCP score is “less than 2.5 seconds for at least 75 of the sessions on your page.” I thought that that was quite generous, because I have seen results where entire web pages load in less than 2 seconds. 

As you know, LCP is a piece of the Page Experience puzzle. If you can work to improve your LCP score, you take steps toward creating a better experience for your users. 

Source: Google Search Central Twitter channel