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First Contentful Paint (Performance)
FCP is when the first text or image appears. It is not a ranking Core Web Vital, but it is the user’s first “something happened” moment.
Pass condition in our engine: Lab FCP is under 1.8s when PageSpeed Insights is configured.
This Performance check is part of SEO-GEO scoring 2.2.1, last updated 2026-09-18. About 90 percent of the evaluation runs on the HTML we crawl, so you can verify the same pass condition with a free report.
1. Problem description
Google’s good threshold is 1.8s. Slow FCP usually means render-blocking CSS or a high TTFB.
2. Most common causes
- Large CSS files in <head> without media hints.
- Web fonts blocking invisible text.
- Slow origin HTML.
3. How to fix it
- Inline critical CSS.
- Use font-display: swap.
- Cut TTFB below 800ms.
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