<b>Break LCP into 3 parts to fix it faster</b>

<b>Break LCP into 3 parts to fix it faster</b>

When LCP — Largest Contentful Paint — is slow, 'make the page faster' is too vague to act on. The trick the pros use is to split LCP into three stretches and find which one is fat.

The three parts of every LCP:
— <b>Time to first byte</b> — how long your server takes to answer
— <b>Load delay + load time</b> — how long before the image starts and finishes downloading
— <b>Render delay</b> — the gap between the image arriving and it actually appearing

Think of it like mailing a package: time to pack it, time in transit, time to unwrap it. You can't speed delivery if the real holdup is unwrapping.

How to see the split:
— PageSpeed Insights now shows this breakdown right under your LCP score

<b>Try this:</b> Find your biggest slice first. If it's first byte, that's a hosting fix; if it's load, that's an image fix.