# Largest Contentful Paint

> An important, stable Core Web Vital metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page's main content has likely loaded—a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful.

An important, stable <Core Web Vital> metric for measuring perceived load speed because it marks the point in the page load timeline when the page's main content has likely loaded—a fast LCP helps reassure the user that the page is useful.

## Articles

- [Common misconceptions about how to optimize LCP  |  web.dev](https://web.dev/blog/common-misconceptions-lcp?hl=en)