There are definitely some low hanging fruits here. Every win directly decreases top level metrics like TTFCP.
The overall metric for this is Navigation.TimeToURLJobStart.
Note well that this includes time spent on the IO thread and on the UI thread. We're starting to see good results from moving some simple SafeBrowsing tasks to a worker thread, to avoid blocking the IO thread.
Comment 1 by csharrison@chromium.org
, Dec 6 2017