The weekend is back, and here we are with an interesting topic that helps you analyze and increase the speed of your website, including Advanced Web Development Metrics. Does your website load fast? How much time does it take to load? Most internet users leave a website when they see that the page is taking too long to load. Having a website that loads slowly will make users prefer your competitors instead. Here are two important user-centric performance metrics you need to know while developing your website.
Metrics related to the performance of page speed loading
- First Paint
- First Contentful Paint
Let us understand the concepts of the first page and first contentful page in detail in this blog.
First Paint
The first thing developers think about the page load after the browser has initialized to render the page is First paint. In other words, we can say that first paint measures the time the website has taken to start the navigation successfully. First paint entry includes DOMHighResTimeStamp for reporting the time when the web browser renders for the first time after navigation. It only includes the enclosing box of an inframe and on-default background paint.
First Contentful Paint
The first content paint is the first time the user can actually start consuming the page content. In simple words, we can say that it measures the time taken to load from the navigation until the first content has appeared. First contentful paint contains a DOMHighResTimeStamp for reporting when the browser encounters any text images or SVG. It only includes pending web fonts text.
We can say that the major difference between first paint and first contentful paint is that the first paint measures the loading time of the website till it is navigating and then it is followed by first contentful paint that measures the time to load the visual content like text, images etc.
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