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First Meaningful Paint

First Meaningful Paint (FMP) is the paint after which the biggest above-the-fold layout change has happened and web fonts have loaded. It is when the answer to "Is it useful?" becomes "yes", upon first meaningful paint completion.

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FMP is very sensitive to small differences in the page load. This can lead to inconsistent (bimodal) results. The metric's definition relies on browser-specific implementation details, which means it can't be standardized and has not been implemented in all web browsers.

Warning: First Meaningful Paint (FMP) is deprecated in Lighthouse 6.0. Moving forward, consider using the LargestContentfulPaint API instead.

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Updated on April 20, 2024 by Datarist.