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How To Optimize The Largest Contentful Paint & Rank Higher In ... - Search Engine Journal

Last updated Saturday, December 24, 2022 06:05 ET , Source: NewsService

Wish your website could rank higher on Google?

Is your website losing out on traffic because it takes too long to load?

Wondering how to speed up your site and show up at the top of SERPs, at the same time?

A fast website not only makes your users happier and more likely to convert, but can also help you rank better in Google.

In fact, Google recognizes website speed as a ranking factor, especially when it comes to how it factors into your website’s Core Web Vitals.

Within Google’s Core Web Vitals, the speed of your website’s Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is the most important site speed metric – it’s also the one most websites struggle with.

This article explains how to test your website speed and make your website load more quickly.

What Is The Largest Contentful Paint?

The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures how quickly the main page content appears after opening a webpage.

The LCP milestone marks the time when a website visitor can see the main page content. The faster this happens, the happier your visitor (and Google) is.

Usually, the largest bit of content on a page is a text element or an image.

Below, you can see that this website’s LCP happens at 1.6 seconds after the webpage is opened.

Immediately after the user navigates to the page, no content is visible.

After about one second, text and a small image start to appear as the First Contentful Paint occurs.

However, the large image on the page doesn’t render until 1.6 seconds after the start of the...



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