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glossary term

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)

How long it takes the biggest visible element on a page to finish loading.

What it means

Largest Contentful Paint measures how long it takes for the largest piece of content on screen — usually a hero image, banner, or block of text — to fully render after someone lands on your page. It's meant to capture when the page actually feels "loaded" to a real visitor, not just when the browser technically finishes.

Why it matters

A slow LCP is one of the fastest ways to lose a visitor before they see anything worth staying for, and Google uses it as a ranking signal. A "good" score is 2.5 seconds or less; anything past 4 seconds is considered poor.

ask datanephew

Can datanephew tell me my LCP score?

Yes — ask it to run a page speed check and it will report LCP along with the other Core Web Vitals for that page.

What's usually causing a slow LCP?

Ask datanephew to check — it commonly comes down to a large unoptimized image, slow server response, or render-blocking scripts, and it can flag which one applies to your page.