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INP by Navigation AI impact

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Written by Vasil Dachev
Updated over 2 weeks ago


What is INP by Navigation AI impact

INP by Navigation AI impact shows the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) based on how the page was loaded - either via a standard navigation or an optimized one using Navigation AI.

This lens helps assess whether AI-powered prerendering not only improves loading speed but also improves how responsive the page feels after load. If Navigation AI speeds up paint but leaves interactivity lagging, INP will highlight that.

Type

Description

Standard navigation

A typical page load (e.g. link click or hard reload) with no AI enhancements

Optimized navigation

A prerendered or AI-predicted page load using Navigation AI



Healthy INP by Navigation AI impact sample


Should you worry

If Optimized navigations show consistently greener bars than Standard navigations, it means AI optimizations are not just making pages appear faster — they’re truly more responsive, too.

A solid experience means both LCP and INP are green in both cases, with optimized sessions performing better.

Unhealthy INP by Navigation AI impact sample

Sometimes, even Optimized navigations still show INP values above the 200 ms threshold. For example, if Standard navigations average around 296 ms and Optimized navigations drop to 212 ms, that’s a clear improvement — but not quite fast enough.

This is expected. Navigation AI accelerates what’s possible through better prediction and prerendering, but it can’t fully eliminate delays caused by slow event handling, hydration, or JavaScript execution. In other words: we can’t optimize indefinitely with speculative loading alone.

That’s why we built INProve — a performance feature designed specifically to fix interaction delays that Navigation AI can't reach. It analyzes input latency and unlocks targeted improvements in responsiveness, ensuring your site feels fast after it loads, not just during the load.

Resolving unhealthy INP by Navigation AI impact

Go-to action plan to resolve an unhealthy INP by Navigation AI impact:

  1. Ask Uxi to analyze your INP by Navigation AI impact values and suggest improvements.

  2. Use Filters to focus on optimized navigations with high INP values.

  3. Simulate INP of the suspected lens to see if fixing it will resolve the INP by Navigation AI impact. If yes, this is where the resolution focus should be.

  4. Use an automated INP optimization tool like INProve to improve your INP by Navigation AI impact values.

  5. Once you’ve improved INP, set an alert to be the first to know if it starts worsening again.

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