Core Web Vitals 2026: making peace with INP
NEO Campus Editorial20 April 20266 min read
INP replaced FID and immediately exposed how heavy modern JavaScript stacks have become. Most sites need real engineering effort to pass.
Profile real interactions
Use the Performance panel and field data from CrUX. Synthetic scores hide the long tasks that real users actually trigger.
Break up long tasks
Yield to the main thread with scheduler.yield(), defer non-critical work, and audit third-party scripts mercilessly.
React and Vue specifics
Hydration cost is the silent killer. Consider islands architecture, partial hydration, or moving to a streaming framework if INP is unsalvageable.
