In the current era of competition over the world of internet. There is much more difficult to grab attention for lazy loading
websites. As people are much more aware and they have different choices for
their needs to be accomplished online. If your website is slow loading, you are
losing great traffic from potential clients which can be beneficial for your
online business in the long run.
Google Page Speed Insight is the tool for measuring
the page speed factor of the website and assigning a percentage % value to
every website depending upon its load time. It not only checks out the desktop
speed of the website but also the mobile website speed to be measured as well.
In November 2017, there was one more addition in the Google Page Speed Insight,
which is called the chrome user experience (CRUX), which measures what is the real-world
user experience in page load distribution amongst different websites.
Before we move further, I want to give some knowledge
regarding how page speed works. The basic function of page speed is depending
upon client-server interaction metrics, which we also called the
request-response architecture. Before, the Page Speed Optimization we also need
to do the server how the server renders the page on the client computer. There
is one more interesting thing to note in server page rendering is the Time to
First Byte (TTFB).
It is the most important factor which is also interlinked with FCP-DCL (First Contentful
Paint- DOM Content Loading). There are three major factors which are as
follows;
1. First Paint:
First paint is the very first Request and Time to
first paint (TTFP) of
the website to the server. The server then gives a response i.e., 200 OK Server
Status Code, and starts rendering the page on the client system. It is
basically, the first screen which is redirecting several URLs, which are images.google.com,
cdn.google.com, and fonts.google.com. So, this is Time to first Interaction with
the Client with the server through a user search query.
2. First
Contentful Paint:
First Contentful Paint (FCP) is the screen that shows
some content in form of Text to the visitor. It is the page rendered screen
which shows these things: Website Title with Favicon (Favorite Icon), Main
Top-Level-Navigation (TLD), and above the fold Area of the custom website design services (without
scrolling). In which the information about the website homepage and USP (Unique
Selling Point) is described.
3. First Meaningful Paint:
First Meaningful Paint (FMP) is that area of the website, which
shows some meaningful content to the visitor for which he has typed in the
search query in the Search Engine (Google). Time also measures this to
First Meaningful Paint (TTFMP) and Time to Interaction (TTI) Metrics. This is the content that serves the sole
purpose of visiting the website and Visitor can even search more without having
a bounce rate (Take the exit from the first page of the website without making
any other interaction in 30 minutes Server Session Time)
The First Meaningful Paint is the most critical factor which must be observed while examining the page load distribution. As this is the most important factor on which most marketers and Web Developers are working hard. There are different tools like DOM Content Loader (DCL), Lighthouse Tool, Google Chrome, and Google Page speed Insight, which measure the FMP. How fast a page can render and provide the best user experience (UX) the web searcher wants in today's world?