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Largest Contentul Paint change in Chrome 112 to ignore low-entropy images

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 7 April 2023
  • LCP, Core Web Vitals, image, WebPerf
  • 1 reaction
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https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/speed/metrics_changelog/2023_04_lcp.md

This may result in LCP times increasing, if a low-content background was being painted very early, or if a low-content placeholder was being used to reserve space for a more contenful image which loaded later.

Death letter to LQIP? 🙏

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