# Largest Contentful Paint Changelog

This is a list of changes to [Largest Contentful Paint](https://web.dev/lcp).

* Chrome 153
  * Metric bug fix: Fixed race conditions in presentation timestamp attribution for animated images and first video frames ([8178904](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/8178904), [8177704](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/8177704)).
* Chrome 151
  * Launch feature: [Prompt LCP entry emission for video elements (RequestMainFrameAfterFirstVideoFrame)](2026_06_lcp.md)
  * Metric bug fix: Prevent premature garbage collection of VideoTiming metadata to ensure video LCP entries are accurately reported ([7911270](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7911270)).
* Chrome 147
  * Metric definition improvement: [Emit LCP candidates based on largest painted image instead of largest pending image](2026_02_lcp.md)
* Chrome 145
  * Launch feature: Shipped `PaintTimingMixin` exposing standard paint timing properties across entry types ([7224616](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7224616)).
* Chrome 144
  * Metric bug fix: Corrected LCP and FCP handling when document opacity changes from zero to non-zero ([7137609](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7137609), [7164696](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7164696)).
* Chrome 143
  * Metric bug fix: [Fixed text presentation timestamps reporting too early, impacting LCP (introduced in M140)](2025_09_lcp.md)
* Chrome 140
  * Bug: [Text presentation timestamps reporting too early, impacting LCP](2025_09_lcp.md)
* Chrome 133
  * Implementation optimizations: [Expose coarsened cross-origin renderTime in element timing/LCP (regardless of TAO)](2025_02_lcp.md)
* Chrome 130
  * Launch feature: [Exclude transparent text from being LCP eligible](2024_10_lcp.md)
* Chrome 126
  * Launch feature: [Enable NewPresentationFeedbackTimeStamps on Mac to improve the accuracy of the frame display time](2024_06_inp_lcp_fcp.md)
* Chrome 118
  * Implementation optimizations: [Image loading prioritizations](2023_10_image_loading_optimizations.md)
* Chrome 117
  * Bug: [Spurious LCP entries after user interaction](2023_10_lcp.md)
* Chrome 116
  * Metric definition improvement: [Changes to how LCP handles videos and animated images](2023_08_lcp.md)
  * Implementation optimizations: [Optimizing image load scheduling](2023_08_image_loading.md)
* Chrome 112
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint ignores low-entropy images](2023_04_lcp.md)
* Chrome 111
  * Implementation optimizations: [Changes related to LCP, FCP and Paint Holding](2023_03_lcp_fcp.md)
* Chrome 99
  * Implementation optimizations: [Navigation optimizations and timeOrigin changes](2022_03_lcp_fcp.md)
* Chrome 98
  * Metric bug fix: [Text paints are more accurate](2021_11_lcp.md)
* Chrome 96
  * Metric bug fix: [Largest Contentful Paint uses the page viewport](2021_09_lcp.md)
* Chrome 88
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint ignores full viewport images](2020_11_lcp.md)
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint stops recording after input in an iframe](2020_11_lcp.md)
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint bug fix for some images with source changes](2020_11_lcp.md)
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint ignores removed content by default](2020_11_lcp_2.md)
* Chrome 86
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint ignores paints with opacity 0](2020_08_lcp.md)
* Chrome 83
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint measurement stops at first input or scroll](2020_05_lcp.md)
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Contentful Paint properly accounts for visual size of background images](2020_05_lcp.md)
* Chrome 81
  * Metric definition improvement: [Largest Text Paint correctly reported while largest image is loading](2020_04_lcp.md)
* Chrome 79
  * Metric is elevated to stable; changes in metric definition will be reported in this log.
* Chrome 77
  * Experimental metric exposed via API: [Largest Contentful Paint](https://web.dev/lcp/) available via [PerformanceObserver API](https://wicg.github.io/largest-contentful-paint/)