diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts b/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts
index 3105a48181b9..a32dba04ea59 100644
--- a/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/src/index.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export {
   addTtfbInstrumentationHandler,
   addLcpInstrumentationHandler,
   addInpInstrumentationHandler,
+  addFcpInstrumentationHandler,
 } from './instrumentation/performanceObserver';
 
 export {
diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/src/instrumentation/performanceObserver.ts b/packages/browser-utils/src/instrumentation/performanceObserver.ts
index 463908bca008..9b74e59d3156 100644
--- a/packages/browser-utils/src/instrumentation/performanceObserver.ts
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/src/instrumentation/performanceObserver.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { debug, getFunctionName } from '@sentry/core';
-import { onCLS, onINP, onLCP, onTTFB } from 'web-vitals';
+import { onCLS, onFCP, onINP, onLCP, onTTFB } from 'web-vitals';
 import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
 
 type InstrumentHandlerTypePerformanceObserver =
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ type InstrumentHandlerTypePerformanceObserver =
   // fist-input is still needed for INP
   | 'first-input';
 
-type InstrumentHandlerTypeMetric = 'cls' | 'lcp' | 'ttfb' | 'inp';
+type InstrumentHandlerTypeMetric = 'cls' | 'lcp' | 'ttfb' | 'inp' | 'fcp';
 
 // We provide this here manually instead of relying on a global, as this is not available in non-browser environements
 // And we do not want to expose such types
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ let _previousCls: Metric | undefined;
 let _previousLcp: Metric | undefined;
 let _previousTtfb: Metric | undefined;
 let _previousInp: Metric | undefined;
+let _previousFcp: Metric | undefined;
 
 /**
  * Add a callback that will be triggered when a CLS metric is available.
@@ -157,6 +158,13 @@ export function addTtfbInstrumentationHandler(callback: (data: { metric: Metric
   return addMetricObserver('ttfb', callback, instrumentTtfb, _previousTtfb);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Add a callback that will be triggered when a FCP metric is available.
+ */
+export function addFcpInstrumentationHandler(callback: (data: { metric: Metric }) => void): CleanupHandlerCallback {
+  return addMetricObserver('fcp', callback, instrumentFcp, _previousFcp);
+}
+
 export type InstrumentationHandlerCallback = (data: {
   metric: Omit<Metric, 'entries'> & {
     entries: PerformanceEventTiming[];
@@ -276,6 +284,17 @@ function instrumentTtfb(): StopListening {
   );
 }
 
+function instrumentFcp(): StopListening {
+  return onFCP(
+    withoutBfcache(metric => {
+      triggerHandlers('fcp', {
+        metric,
+      });
+      _previousFcp = metric;
+    }),
+  );
+}
+
 function instrumentInp(): StopListening {
   return onINP(
     withoutBfcache(metric => {
diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/src/web-vitals/tracking.ts b/packages/browser-utils/src/web-vitals/tracking.ts
index 607eb3830809..223c1b2db43f 100644
--- a/packages/browser-utils/src/web-vitals/tracking.ts
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/src/web-vitals/tracking.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { DEBUG_BUILD } from '../debug-build';
 import { htmlTreeAsString } from '../htmlTreeAsString';
 import {
   addClsInstrumentationHandler,
+  addFcpInstrumentationHandler,
   addLcpInstrumentationHandler,
   addPerformanceInstrumentationHandler,
   addTtfbInstrumentationHandler,
@@ -35,11 +36,13 @@ export function startTrackingWebVitals({ trackCls, trackLcp }: StartTrackingWebV
     const lcpCleanupCallback = trackLcp ? _trackLCP() : undefined;
     const clsCleanupCallback = trackCls ? _trackCLS() : undefined;
     const ttfbCleanupCallback = _trackTtfb();
-    const fpFcpCleanupCallback = _trackFpFcp();
+    const fcpCleanupCallback = _trackFcp();
+    const fpCleanupCallback = _trackFp();
 
     return (): void => {
       ttfbCleanupCallback();
-      fpFcpCleanupCallback();
+      fcpCleanupCallback();
+      fpCleanupCallback();
       lcpCleanupCallback?.();
       clsCleanupCallback?.();
     };
@@ -89,18 +92,27 @@ function _trackTtfb(): () => void {
   });
 }
 
-/** Starts tracking First Paint and First Contentful Paint on the current page. */
-function _trackFpFcp(): () => void {
+/** Starts tracking the First Contentful Paint on the current page. */
+function _trackFcp(): () => void {
+  return addFcpInstrumentationHandler(({ metric }) => {
+    _measurements['fcp'] = { value: metric.value, unit: 'millisecond' };
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Starts tracking First Paint on the current page.
+ *
+ * web-vitals has no `onFP`, so this stays on the raw paint observer. It mirrors what `onFCP` does
+ * for its own entry: skip the vital if the page was hidden before it, and rebase against
+ * `activationStart` so prerendered pages report time-to-paint from activation rather than from the
+ * (much earlier) prerender navigation start.
+ */
+function _trackFp(): () => void {
   return addPerformanceInstrumentationHandler('paint', ({ entries }) => {
     const firstHidden = getVisibilityWatcher();
     for (const entry of entries) {
-      // Only report if the page wasn't hidden prior to the web vital.
-      const shouldRecord = entry.startTime < firstHidden.firstHiddenTime;
-      if (entry.name === 'first-paint' && shouldRecord) {
-        _measurements['fp'] = { value: entry.startTime, unit: 'millisecond' };
-      }
-      if (entry.name === 'first-contentful-paint' && shouldRecord) {
-        _measurements['fcp'] = { value: entry.startTime, unit: 'millisecond' };
+      if (entry.name === 'first-paint' && entry.startTime < firstHidden.firstHiddenTime) {
+        _measurements['fp'] = { value: Math.max(entry.startTime - getActivationStart(), 0), unit: 'millisecond' };
       }
     }
   });
diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/test/web-vitals/tracking-fp-fcp-prerender.test.ts b/packages/browser-utils/test/web-vitals/tracking-fp-fcp-prerender.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aa1428059b1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/test/web-vitals/tracking-fp-fcp-prerender.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+import { getClient, getMainCarrier, SentrySpan, setCurrentClient, spanToJSON } from '@sentry/core';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { addWebVitalsToSpan, startTrackingWebVitals } from '../../src/web-vitals/tracking';
+import { getDefaultClientOptions, TestClient } from '../utils/TestClient';
+
+// Lives in its own file rather than alongside the regular-page-load case: the paint observers, the
+// `instrumented` registry and the visibility watcher are all module-level singletons that can only
+// be armed once, so a second scenario in the same file would reuse the first one's state.
+const paintObserverCallbacks: Array<(list: PerformanceObserverEntryList) => void> = [];
+
+class MockPerformanceObserver {
+  public static supportedEntryTypes = ['paint'];
+
+  public constructor(callback: (list: PerformanceObserverEntryList) => void) {
+    paintObserverCallbacks.push(callback);
+  }
+
+  public observe(): void {
+    // noop
+  }
+
+  public disconnect(): void {
+    // noop
+  }
+}
+
+function emitPaintEntries(entries: PerformanceEntry[]): Promise<void> {
+  for (const callback of paintObserverCallbacks) {
+    callback({ getEntries: () => entries } as PerformanceObserverEntryList);
+  }
+
+  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 0));
+}
+
+describe('startTrackingWebVitals', () => {
+  const realPerformance = globalThis.performance;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    getMainCarrier().__SENTRY__ = undefined;
+
+    const client = new TestClient(getDefaultClientOptions({ tracesSampleRate: 1 }));
+    setCurrentClient(client);
+    client.init();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+    vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('rebases fp and fcp against activationStart for prerendered pages', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('PerformanceObserver', MockPerformanceObserver);
+    vi.stubGlobal('addEventListener', vi.fn());
+    vi.stubGlobal('removeEventListener', vi.fn());
+    vi.stubGlobal('document', {
+      prerendering: false,
+      readyState: 'complete',
+      visibilityState: 'visible',
+    });
+
+    // The document sat in the prerender buffer for 5s before the user navigated to it, so paint
+    // timestamps are 5s into the prerender navigation while the user only perceived ~12/18ms.
+    vi.stubGlobal('performance', {
+      timeOrigin: realPerformance.timeOrigin,
+      now: () => realPerformance.now(),
+      getEntries: () => [],
+      getEntriesByType: (type: string) =>
+        type === 'navigation'
+          ? [{ type: 'navigate', responseStart: 1, activationStart: 5000 } as PerformanceNavigationTiming]
+          : [],
+    });
+
+    const cleanupWebVitals = startTrackingWebVitals({ trackCls: false, trackLcp: false, client: getClient()! });
+
+    await emitPaintEntries([
+      { entryType: 'paint', name: 'first-paint', duration: 0, startTime: 5012, toJSON: () => ({}) },
+      { entryType: 'paint', name: 'first-contentful-paint', duration: 0, startTime: 5018, toJSON: () => ({}) },
+    ] as PerformanceEntry[]);
+
+    cleanupWebVitals();
+
+    const pageloadSpan = new SentrySpan({ op: 'pageload', name: '/', sampled: true });
+    addWebVitalsToSpan(pageloadSpan, {
+      recordClsOnPageloadSpan: true,
+      recordLcpOnPageloadSpan: true,
+      spanStreamingEnabled: true,
+    });
+
+    expect(spanToJSON(pageloadSpan).attributes['browser.web_vital.fp.value']).toBe(12);
+    expect(spanToJSON(pageloadSpan).attributes['browser.web_vital.fcp.value']).toBe(18);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/browser-utils/test/web-vitals/tracking-fp-fcp.test.ts b/packages/browser-utils/test/web-vitals/tracking-fp-fcp.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aa0114b87fec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/browser-utils/test/web-vitals/tracking-fp-fcp.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import { getClient, getMainCarrier, SentrySpan, setCurrentClient, spanToJSON } from '@sentry/core';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { addWebVitalsToSpan, startTrackingWebVitals } from '../../src/web-vitals/tracking';
+import { getDefaultClientOptions, TestClient } from '../utils/TestClient';
+
+// FCP comes from web-vitals' `onFCP` and FP from our own paint observer, so both register their own
+// `PerformanceObserver`. Every constructed observer is collected here and paint entries are handed
+// to all of them, the way the browser would.
+const paintObserverCallbacks: Array<(list: PerformanceObserverEntryList) => void> = [];
+
+class MockPerformanceObserver {
+  public static supportedEntryTypes = ['paint'];
+
+  public constructor(callback: (list: PerformanceObserverEntryList) => void) {
+    paintObserverCallbacks.push(callback);
+  }
+
+  public observe(): void {
+    // noop
+  }
+
+  public disconnect(): void {
+    // noop
+  }
+}
+
+function emitPaintEntries(entries: PerformanceEntry[]): Promise<void> {
+  for (const callback of paintObserverCallbacks) {
+    callback({ getEntries: () => entries } as PerformanceObserverEntryList);
+  }
+
+  // Both observers hand off to their handlers in a microtask, so let the queue drain.
+  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 0));
+}
+
+describe('startTrackingWebVitals', () => {
+  const realPerformance = globalThis.performance;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    getMainCarrier().__SENTRY__ = undefined;
+
+    const client = new TestClient(getDefaultClientOptions({ tracesSampleRate: 1 }));
+    setCurrentClient(client);
+    client.init();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+    vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('records fp and fcp on a regular (non-prerendered) page load', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('PerformanceObserver', MockPerformanceObserver);
+    vi.stubGlobal('addEventListener', vi.fn());
+    vi.stubGlobal('removeEventListener', vi.fn());
+    vi.stubGlobal('document', {
+      prerendering: false,
+      readyState: 'complete',
+      visibilityState: 'visible',
+    });
+    vi.stubGlobal('performance', {
+      timeOrigin: realPerformance.timeOrigin,
+      now: () => realPerformance.now(),
+      getEntries: () => [],
+      getEntriesByType: (type: string) =>
+        type === 'navigation'
+          ? [{ type: 'navigate', responseStart: 1, activationStart: 0 } as PerformanceNavigationTiming]
+          : [],
+    });
+
+    const cleanupWebVitals = startTrackingWebVitals({ trackCls: false, trackLcp: false, client: getClient()! });
+
+    await emitPaintEntries([
+      { entryType: 'paint', name: 'first-paint', duration: 0, startTime: 12, toJSON: () => ({}) },
+      { entryType: 'paint', name: 'first-contentful-paint', duration: 0, startTime: 18, toJSON: () => ({}) },
+    ] as PerformanceEntry[]);
+
+    cleanupWebVitals();
+
+    const pageloadSpan = new SentrySpan({ op: 'pageload', name: '/', sampled: true });
+    addWebVitalsToSpan(pageloadSpan, {
+      recordClsOnPageloadSpan: true,
+      recordLcpOnPageloadSpan: true,
+      spanStreamingEnabled: true,
+    });
+
+    expect(spanToJSON(pageloadSpan).attributes['browser.web_vital.fp.value']).toBe(12);
+    expect(spanToJSON(pageloadSpan).attributes['browser.web_vital.fcp.value']).toBe(18);
+  });
+});