Metrics

  • First contentful paint
    • measures the time it takes the browser to begin visibly rendering the webpage
    • normally measured though loading the largest visible element
  • Speed index
    • measure of how fast the website’s DOM gets rendered
    • shorter speed indices means the page will stablize faster
  • First CPU idle (first Interactive)
    • measure the time until the page is capable of handling the majority of user inputs in a “reasonable” amount of time.
  • Time to Interactive
    • measures the time until the user can meaningfully interact with the majority of the site with delays of under 50ms.
  • Max Potential First Input Delay
    • measures the maximum possible delay a user can experience after they attempt to interact with an element on the page

Source:

https://medium.com/hackers-at-cambridge/profiling-your-websites-performance-ff80881b7b15