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[beta] Core Web Vitals: Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
You must have seen There is a new core web vitals (CWV) metric called INP introduced in the Page Speed Insights report. However, this is in beta stage, meaning experimental metric. At a first glance, it seems like unnecessary metric to use as we already have hard time fixing other metric issues like CLS, LCP, FCP, TTBT, FID. However, the Google's tool was calculating all of things until page load event happens. There was no accounting for interactions of the real world users. Apparently the interactions that happen are around 90% after page load event, which Google PageSpeed Insights was not able to calculate. So there was a loop hole to trick Google pagespeed scores and get good ranking. This is mainly because Google checks the browsers main thread status…