Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
The next scripts shows information about the LCP (opens in a new tab) metric.
You can use it in the browser console or as a snippet in the Chrome DevTools Source tab, take a look at the Introduction section.
Get the LCP element
List the Largest Contentful Paint in the console and add a green dotted line around the LCP element.
Snippet
const po = new PerformanceObserver((list) => {
let entries = list.getEntries();
entries = dedupe(entries, "startTime");
entries.forEach((item, i) => {
console.dir(item);
console.log(
`${i + 1} current LCP item : ${item.element}: ${item.startTime}`,
);
item.element ? (item.element.style = "border: 5px dotted lime;") : "";
});
const lastEntry = entries[entries.length - 1];
console.log(`LCP is: ${lastEntry.startTime}`);
});
po.observe({ type: "largest-contentful-paint", buffered: true });
function dedupe(arr, key) {
return [...new Map(arr.map((item) => [item[key], item])).values()];
}