{"id":92857,"date":"2026-04-23T21:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bricktowntom.com\/blog\/?p=92857"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:35:37","slug":"9-steps-to-largest-contentful-paint-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bricktowntom.com\/blog\/04\/9-steps-to-largest-contentful-paint-optimization.html","title":{"rendered":"9 steps to Largest Contentful Paint optimization\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) isn’t just about making Google happy. LCP optimization is key to providing better user experiences, as visitors are more quickly presented with useful content. This can give you quite a competitive advantage over sites where content displays little by little, tempting the frustrated visitor to bounce.<\/p>\n

Most of the changes that you would need to make to improve your LCP standing involve your WordPress site\u2019s<\/a> theme, the scripts you are loading and the order they are loaded. Running a test at a site like web.dev<\/a> is the best way to get an idea of what those facets are, as the report it generates is incredibly detailed and full of great advice.<\/p>\n

The overall response time of the application and the environment it is hosted in also plays an important role. Your time-to-first-byte (TTFB) should be 350ms or less, which is rather easy to accomplish if you are using full page caching and well-placed servers close to your user base.<\/p>\n

However, you are bound to miss the cache every now and then as content gets updated and as cache elements expire. To that end, here are some tips that will help ensure that your dynamic traffic capacity is not being squandered on unnecessary calls.<\/p>\n

Keeping your PHP workers unburdened will lead to improved initial server response times and that translates to a better LCP.<\/p>\n

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