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It's happening as a result of a deliberate animation. The CLS metric relates to initial render. So yes, there is layout shift, but it's not CLS per se.
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> The CLS metric relates to initial render.

The CLS measures the total sum of layout shifts over the entire lifespan of a page, not just during initial render.

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The layout isn't shifting, so it's not a layout shift.

And it's not unexpected, because it comes from a css transition.

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Sure.

It's just that the spirit of Google's core web vitals has been to measure the properties of a web page that have the most impact on users. How quickly content appears on a page, how visually stable the content is, and how long it takes the page to respond to an interaction.

In the case of this page, I don't think it can be considered visually stable at all in the first second after it's loaded.

And yet, core web vitals cannot demonstrate this.

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