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techLOW2026-05-02 00:30 UTC

Images, Fonts, Third-Party Scripts: LCP and CLS

Images, fonts, and third-party scripts are the three categories responsible for the most field LCP and CLS regressions. They interact: a 12KB GTM tag firing synchronously in <head> blocks the parser for 200ms, which means your hero image (already the LCP candidate) now loads 200ms later. LCP jumps f

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