What's a good Interaction to Next Paint?
A good Interaction to Next Paint is 200ms or lower — Google's 'good' threshold: 200 ms or less at the 75th percentile. Latency of user interactions (clicks, taps, key presses). Excellent is 100ms or lower (Karbon target), and the minimum acceptable tier is 500ms or lower (Google's 'poor' line: over 500 ms at the 75th percentile).
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The three tiers Karbon grades against — and where each comes from
| Tier | Value | What it means | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 500ms | The floor. Below this, something is broken. | Google's 'poor' line: over 500 ms at the 75th percentile |
| Recommended | 200ms | The tier a healthy campaign should hit. | Google's 'good' threshold: 200 ms or less at the 75th percentile |
| Excellent | 100ms | Top-tier performance worth defending. | Karbon target |
| Published threshold | 200 ms | Google's Core Web Vitals 'good' threshold, 75th percentile. Source (2025-05) | |
Lower is better for this metric.
Why Interaction to Next Paint matters
INP measures perceived responsiveness. Sluggish interactions frustrate users and increase abandonment, especially on mobile where patience is lowest.
Sources
The three tiers on this page are Karbon Agency's grading targets. These published figures are the outside reference points for Interaction to Next Paint, so you can check our tiers against them.
- web.dev (Google) — Interaction to Next Paint (INP) (September 2, 2025; read September 26, 2026)An INP at or below 200 milliseconds is good; above 200 and up to 500 milliseconds needs improvement; above 500 milliseconds is poor.
Where does your Interaction to Next Paint land?
Karbon Agency grades every client campaign against these exact tiers, live on a dashboard — no guessing, no quarterly PDFs.