Collect Real Core Web Vitals From Your Visitors
Measures Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift and Interaction to Next Paint in visitors' browsers and shows the 75th percentile of the last 7 days per page type in a dashboard widget.
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Code
// Share of page views that report (0.2 = 20%).
$wpide_vitals_sample = 0.2;
add_action( 'rest_api_init', function () {
register_rest_route( 'wpide/v1', '/vitals', array(
'methods' => 'POST',
'permission_callback' => '__return_true',
'args' => array(
'type' => array( 'type' => 'string', 'enum' => array( 'home', 'single', 'page', 'archive', 'product', 'other' ), 'required' => true ),
'lcp' => array( 'type' => 'number', 'minimum' => 0, 'maximum' => 60000 ),
'cls' => array( 'type' => 'number', 'minimum' => 0, 'maximum' => 10 ),
'inp' => array( 'type' => 'number', 'minimum' => 0, 'maximum' => 60000 ),
),
'callback' => function ( WP_REST_Request $request ) {
$day = gmdate( 'Ymd' );
$store = (array) get_option( 'wpide_vitals', array() );
$type = $request['type'];
foreach ( array( 'lcp', 'cls', 'inp' ) as $metric ) {
if ( null === $request[ $metric ] ) {
continue;
}
$values = isset( $store[ $day ][ $type ][ $metric ] ) ? $store[ $day ][ $type ][ $metric ] : array();
if ( count( $values ) < 500 ) {
$values[] = 'cls' === $metric ? round( (float) $request[ $metric ], 3 ) : (int) $request[ $metric ];
}
$store[ $day ][ $type ][ $metric ] = $values;
}
krsort( $store );
update_option( 'wpide_vitals', array_slice( $store, 0, 7, true ), false );
return new WP_REST_Response( null, 204 );
},
) );
} );
add_action( 'wp_footer', function () use ( $wpide_vitals_sample ) {
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
return;
}
$type = is_front_page() ? 'home' : ( function_exists( 'is_product' ) && is_product() ? 'product' : ( is_single() ? 'single' : ( is_page() ? 'page' : ( is_archive() || is_home() ? 'archive' : 'other' ) ) ) );
?>
<script>
(function () {
if (Math.random() > <?php echo (float) $wpide_vitals_sample; ?> || !('PerformanceObserver' in window)) { return; }
var data = { type: <?php echo wp_json_encode( $type ); ?> }, cls = 0, inp = 0;
function observe(type, cb) { try { new PerformanceObserver(function (l) { l.getEntries().forEach(cb); }).observe({ type: type, buffered: true }); } catch (e) {} }
observe('largest-contentful-paint', function (e) { data.lcp = Math.round(e.startTime); });
observe('layout-shift', function (e) { if (!e.hadRecentInput) { cls += e.value; data.cls = Math.round(cls * 1000) / 1000; } });
observe('event', function (e) { if (e.interactionId && e.duration > inp) { inp = e.duration; data.inp = Math.round(inp); } });
var sent = false;
function send() {
if (sent || document.visibilityState !== 'hidden') { return; }
sent = true;
navigator.sendBeacon && navigator.sendBeacon(<?php echo wp_json_encode( esc_url_raw( rest_url( 'wpide/v1/vitals' ) ) ); ?>, new Blob([JSON.stringify(data)], { type: 'application/json' }));
}
document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', send);
})();
</script>
<?php
}, 99 );
add_action( 'wp_dashboard_setup', function () {
if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
return;
}
wp_add_dashboard_widget( 'wpide_vitals', 'Core Web Vitals (last 7 days, p75)', function () {
$merged = array();
foreach ( (array) get_option( 'wpide_vitals', array() ) as $types ) {
foreach ( $types as $type => $metrics ) {
foreach ( $metrics as $metric => $values ) {
$merged[ $type ][ $metric ] = array_merge( isset( $merged[ $type ][ $metric ] ) ? $merged[ $type ][ $metric ] : array(), $values );
}
}
}
if ( ! $merged ) {
echo '<p>No measurements yet. Data appears after visitors browse the site.</p>';
return;
}
$p75 = function ( $values ) {
sort( $values );
return $values ? $values[ (int) floor( 0.75 * ( count( $values ) - 1 ) ) ] : null;
};
echo '<table class="widefat striped"><thead><tr><th>Page type</th><th>LCP</th><th>CLS</th><th>INP</th><th>Samples</th></tr></thead><tbody>';
foreach ( $merged as $type => $m ) {
$lcp = isset( $m['lcp'] ) ? $p75( $m['lcp'] ) : null;
$cls = isset( $m['cls'] ) ? $p75( $m['cls'] ) : null;
$inp = isset( $m['inp'] ) ? $p75( $m['inp'] ) : null;
printf(
'<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%d</td></tr>',
esc_html( $type ),
null === $lcp ? '-' : esc_html( round( $lcp / 1000, 2 ) . 's' ),
null === $cls ? '-' : esc_html( $cls ),
null === $inp ? '-' : esc_html( $inp . 'ms' ),
isset( $m['lcp'] ) ? count( $m['lcp'] ) : 0
);
}
echo '</tbody></table><p class="description">Good: LCP under 2.5s, CLS under 0.1, INP under 200ms.</p>';
} );
} );
Notes
Samples 20% of page views by default and stores only numbers per page type, no visitor data; values are rounded and capped to keep storage tiny.
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