Product Hunt Core Web Vitals
How real Chrome users experience www.producthunt.com, from Google's Chrome UX Report: the 75th percentile of visits on every device.
Product Hunt passes Core Web Vitals
Sep 26 – Oct 23, all devices
INP
195 ms
Good
LCP
2.2 s
Good
CLS
0.07
Good
FCP
2.0 s
Needs improvement
TTFB
1.5 s
Needs improvement
INP over time
Weekly p75. The dashed line is the 200 ms "good" threshold.
What the numbers say
- Product Hunt passes Core Web Vitals: LCP 2.2 s, CLS 0.07, INP 195 ms are all in Google's "good" range for 3 in 4 visits.
- Among 14 media and community sites we track, Product Hunt has the 6th fastest LCP.
- INP has worsened by 68 ms over the last 25 weeks, from 122 ms to 190 ms.
Keep a site like this from getting slower
Real-user data shows a regression weeks after it ships. Vitalgate runs Lighthouse on every pull request and fails the check when a change breaks budgets like these: LCP ≤ 2.5 s, CLS ≤ 0.10, FCP ≤ 2.0 s.
Other media and community sites
| Site | Core Web Vitals | LCP | INP | CLS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | Fails | 4.7 s | 245 ms | 0.34 |
| Passes | 2.0 s | 144 ms | 0.01 | |
| X | Fails | 4.4 s | 334 ms | 0.07 |
| Fails | 2.5 s | 226 ms | 0.07 | |
| Medium | Passes | 2.4 s | 106 ms | 0.03 |
| Substack | Fails | 2.4 s | 203 ms | 0.02 |
| dev.to | Passes | 1.9 s | 82 ms | 0.00 |
| Hacker News | Passes | 554 ms | 44 ms | 0.00 |
| Wikipedia | Passes | 1.2 s | 81 ms | 0.00 |
| The Verge | Fails | 1.4 s | 130 ms | 0.16 |
| Spotify | Fails | 5.9 s | 455 ms | 0.57 |
| Twitch | Fails | 3.1 s | 303 ms | 0.23 |
| Netflix | Fails | 3.7 s | 208 ms | 0.03 |