What is LCP by Navigation AI speed
LCP by Navigation AI speed shows the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) grouped by how quickly a navigation was delivered - either via standard navigation or through Navigation AI-enhanced experiences.
This lens breaks down performance into four tiers based on real user load times:
Category | Description |
Standard | Navigations with no Navigation AI assistance - traditional page loads |
Faster | Optimized navigations with improved speed, but still above 1s |
Semi-instant | Optimized navigations loading in 300ms to 1s - feels fast to most users |
Truly instant | Navigations under 300ms - often perceived as instant |
The data comes from real-world sessions and helps you understand how well your Navigation AI is shifting users away from standard loads and toward instant experiences.
Healthy LCP by Navigation AI speed sample
Should you worry
A healthy breakdown shows most of your traffic in the Truly instant category - meaning Navigation AI is successfully delivering instant page loads.
Unhealthy LCP by Navigation AI speed sample
If Standard is the dominant navigation type, or if LCP values for Faster and Semi-instant aren’t significantly better than Standard, it’s a sign that:
Your site has too many slow standard navigations, possibly due to missed predictions or unsupported routes.
Heavy resources, such as large hero images, unoptimized fonts, or JavaScript hydration, are dampening the instant feel, even when prerendered.
LCP elements are still rendering too late, making fast delivery feel no different than traditional loading.
Even if Navigation AI improves LCP in raw numbers, the perceived performance gain may be minimal unless you optimize the page itself for instant rendering.
This lens is especially useful to spot friction areas where prerendering is working - but not shining.
Resolving unhealthy LCP by Navigation AI speed
Go-to action plan to resolve an unhealthy LCP by Navigation AI speed:
Ask Uxi to analyze your LCP by Navigation AI speed values and suggest improvements.
Use Filters to isolate the impacted state and identify which pages or components show the biggest difference.
Simulate LCP of the suspected lens to see if fixing it will resolve the slow LCP by Navigation AI speed. If yes, this is where the resolution focus should be.
Use an automated LCP optimization tool like Navigation AI to improve your LCP by Navigation AI speed values.
Once you’ve improved LCP, set an alert to be the first to know if it starts worsening again.
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