30-second summary: Good page speed and user experience help your site stand out in search results The Interaction to Next Paint metric is replacing First Input Delay You can improve make your site respond faster to user input by reducing CPU processing times The Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that Google has defined to measure how good a website’s user experience is. They first became a ranking signal in 2021. While the metric definitions have been tweaked over time , the introduction of the Interaction to Next Paint metric is the biggest change since the launch of the Core Web Vitals initiative. What is Interaction to Next Paint (INP)? Interaction to Next Paint is a metric that evaluates how quickly your website responds to user interaction. It measures how much time elapses between the user input, like a button click, and the next time the page content refreshes (the “next paint”). To rank better in Google this interaction delay should be less than 200 milliseconds.…