Interaction to Next Paint - New CWV on March 12

[not2easy]

Google's Web Dev team announces Interaction to Next Paint [web.dev] will officially become a Core Web Vital that will replace First Input Delay on March 12. It relates to how fast user input interaction is handled on your site. They offer tools to help find slow spots and code delays that you can update to faster standards.

Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is an important responsiveness metric that measures how quickly a page responds to user interactions. INP observes the latency of all interactions a user has made with the page, and reports a single value which all (or nearly all) interactions were below. Optimizing INP is an involved process, requiring knowledge of various aspects that drive interactivity.

It can be checked using their CWV Pagespeed [pagespeed.web.dev] tools and they offer more tools on their How to Optimize [web.dev] for INP pages.

[superclown2]

All the top ten sites in my vertical have dreadful CWV scores but then they build their sites using Wordpress Joomla or similar. I doubt if their developers care tuppence about Next Paint or any other development that help Google mould the Internet to their own design.

Yes perhaps it helps rankings by a tiny amount but hopefully not at the expense of adversely affecting a site that actually attracts and keeps visitors.

[Pjman]

I feel like they dialed this metric back on their page speed testing tool since they first announced it, in the summer.

I work on a catalog of about 20 sites. Back when they first announced it, I tested all 20 sites. They had horrible (poor scores).

I put it on my calendar to fix those and in December I went back and tested them all again. They miraculously jumped from poor to good. Without any intervention on my end or my host networks. They are spread across 5 different networks and architectures.

All I'm saying, is recheck your score before devoting your time to it.