Debugging INP With Honeycomb for Frontend Observability
Blog post from Honeycomb
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is the latest addition to Google's Core Web Vitals, serving as a metric to gauge the responsiveness of a web page by measuring the time between a user interaction and the browser's ability to render the next frame. This metric, alongside Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), aims to quantify crucial aspects of user experience online. Honeycomb for Frontend Observability offers tools to debug and optimize INP scores by capturing detailed attribution data for each event, allowing developers to analyze and address issues in web performance. Honeycomb's BubbleUp and fast querying functions enable users to explore data, identify problematic areas, and propose optimizations, although the INP metric currently only reports data from Chromium-based browsers, potentially omitting significant portions of user interactions on iOS devices using Safari. By understanding and improving INP scores, developers can enhance the overall user experience on their websites.