Performance LCP issues when crawlers access the site
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Grafikr team
Currently the banner is affecting the total LCP when a crawler, for instance googlebot is accessing and crawling the site.
It would be amazing if you built crawler authentication into cookie-script, to avoid LCP issues and ensure the best possible performance. Making sure that the banner is never displayed to bots, will greatly benefit the LCP score.
Here's the documentation required to authenticate bots from google: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/verifying-googlebot
C
Ceri Morgan
The instance where LCP actually matters is for the site users (rather than bots), Google will use real user data to determine your Search Console Web Vitals - which is where performance actually has a site ranking factor.
So removing the banner on Google Bots won't actually improve LCP scores, it will only improve for tools such as Lighthouse (which are only an estimation).