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Interaction to Next Paint

How quickly the page reacts when you click or type.

Definition

A measure of responsiveness across a visit, reporting the latency of interactions.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

How quickly the page reacts when you click or type.

Example

Heavy client-side JavaScript is the usual cause of a poor score.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

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Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.