# Poor performance on Largest Contentful Paint **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-performance-on-largest-contentful-paint/214967 **Category:** Support **Created:** [January 15, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-performance-on-largest-contentful-paint/214967 "2022-01-15T19:01:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman) #### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-performance-on-largest-contentful-paint/214967/5 "2022-01-18T21:09:16Z")
Unfortunately part of optimizing for _any_ visitors (be they repeat or not) requires playing nicely with Google’s algorithm du jour. This has been discussed before: > [@Google May 4th Core Update impact on Discourse forums](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-may-4th-core-update-impact-on-discourse-forums/161369/): > > My two Discourse forums were hit badly by Google’s May 4th Core Update, while other non-discourse websites were getting better instead… I am assuming it was due to the bad UX as that core update is more related to user experience, anyone has any ideas on this? Edit: You can find, more about it in here: [https://www.ezoic.com/google-may-2020-core-update/](https://www.ezoic.com/google-may-2020-core-update/) that’s just a link from a simple google search “Google search May 4th update” it has impacted many websites, and perhaps it seems like it ha… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-performance-on-largest-contentful-paint/214967)._