Aurora · Bars & pubs

Average page takes 9.5s to render its main content — 7.0s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of May 202614 sites analyzed
Dataset

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  • Business name, address, phone, website
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  • Google rating, review count, category
  • PageSpeed, SSL, tech stack
  • SEO basics: meta, canonical, og, schema
  • Social links: IG, FB, LinkedIn, YouTube
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At a glance

Averages across the full sample. Google's thresholds shown as the white marker on each bar.

Performance
SEO
Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

The four metrics Google uses to rank pages. Lower is better for all of them.

Largest Contentful Paint9.48svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint4.54svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.03vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.03svs 0.80s

Local vs national

A head-to-head on every metric Google measures. Green is better than the national average, purple is worse.

MetricLocalUS averageGap
Performance score5752+5.1 pts
SEO score9591+4.4 pts
Largest Contentful Paint9.5s12.5s-2.97s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.030.09-0.06
Time to First Byte0.0s0.1s-0.02

Security

No SSL in 2026 is a trust killer — and a Chrome warning. These numbers should be 100%.

Sites with SSL

Average
92.9%

13 secure, 1 without

Sites without SSL

Exposed
1

Each of these loses visitors at the browser warning

Technology landscape

Top platforms, CMSs, and analytics tools detected across the sample.

Social presence

Share of sites that link out to each platform from their homepage footer or header.

With any social

57.1%

At least one platform linked

facebook

57.1%

8 sites linking out

instagram

28.6%

4 sites linking out

Performance spread

PageSpeed scores grouped into Google's tier labels. The shape of the distribution tells you whether the industry average hides a few great outliers — or a long tail of broken sites.

LocalUS average
  • Critical049
    28.6%vs 43.3% us average
  • Needs work5069
    42.9%vs 39.1% us average
  • Decent7089
    28.6%vs 15.0% us average
  • Good90100
    0.0%vs 2.6% us average

Heavy on the slow side: 72% of sites score below 70. Speed is the differentiator most of this market hasn't invested in yet.

Tech stack divergence

Where the local tech stack over- or under-indexes against the national benchmark. Big gaps often signal a local builder's preference — or an opportunity if you're choosing a platform.

TechnologyAurora bars & pubsUS averageGap
Google Tag ManagerTag managers28.6%0.0%+28.6 pts
Squarespace0.0%24.1%-24.1 pts
HSTSSecurity35.7%50.7%-15 pts
jQuery MigrateJavaScript libraries35.7%25.6%+10.1 pts
jQueryJavaScript libraries35.7%43.7%-8 pts
PHPProgramming languages28.6%36.2%-7.6 pts
HTTP/3Miscellaneous21.4%27.1%-5.7 pts
Google AnalyticsAnalytics42.9%38.2%+4.7 pts

SEO health

Adoption of the table-stakes SEO signals across the sample. Gaps here are the cheapest wins — any one of these fixes tends to outperform months of content work.

Viewport meta

Strong
100%

Sites declaring a mobile viewport — without this, Chrome renders pages at desktop zoom on phones.

Meta description

Strong
92.9%

Sites with a populated meta description — the text Google shows in search results.

Canonical tag

Strong
85.7%

Sites declaring which URL is the main one — prevents duplicate-content penalties across www, http, and tracking-parameter variants.

Open Graph tags

Strong
92.9%

Sites with og:title / og:image tags — controls how links preview on LinkedIn, Facebook, iMessage.

Structured data

Mixed
78.6%

Sites publishing JSON-LD schema — unlocks rich results (stars, hours, FAQ snippets).

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 14 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    Speed up largest contentful paint (LCP)

    Derived from the sample averageSpeedhigh impact
  2. 02

    Enable SSL/HTTPS on every page

    Derived from the sample averageSecurityhigh impact
  3. 03

    Improve overall page speed

    Derived from the sample averageSpeedmedium impact

FAQ

14 bars & pubs in Aurora. Every site had a full diagnostic run — crawl, PageSpeed, SSL check, technology detection. The numbers aggregate across that sample.

Aurora bars & pubs score 57/100 on average. That's roughly in line with the national average, so Aurora is a typical market for bars & pubs.

Across the sample, the most common issue is "Speed up largest contentful paint (LCP)" — found on 0% of sites. The full list is in the Quick wins section above.

92.9% of Aurora bars & pubs use SSL. Any site without it triggers a "Not secure" warning in browsers — an easy fix that too many local businesses still skip.

Enter your URL in the audit box. You'll get the same diagnostic we ran on the sites in this report, benchmarked specifically against other Aurora bars & pubs. Takes under 60 seconds.

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  • Speed + Core Web Vitals

    Image compression, caching, lazy loading, render-blocking cleanup — the fixes the benchmark above flagged.

  • On-page SEO + structured data

    Meta tags, canonicals, schema markup, internal linking — every signal Google's crawler expects, audited and fixed.

  • Conversion rate + mobile UX

    CTAs, forms, microcopy, mobile layout. Turn the traffic you're already getting into leads and customers.

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