Boise · Financial advisors

21.1% of these sites are still flagged "Not secure" by Chrome — the single cheapest fix in the report.

Data as of May 202637 sites analyzed

Key findings

The handful of things that jumped out after crunching every diagnostic. Details and quick wins are below.

  1. 01

    21.1% of these sites are still flagged "Not secure" by Chrome — the single cheapest fix in the report.

  2. 02

    Average page takes 8.7s to render its main content — 6.2s over Google's passing threshold.

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 Paint8.73svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint3.45svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.19vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.07svs 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 score5654+1.6
SEO score8487-2.3
Largest Contentful Paint8.7s10.9s-2.16s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.190.15+0.04
Time to First Byte0.1s0.1s0

Security

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

Sites with SSL

Weak
78.9%

30 secure, 8 without

Sites without SSL

Exposed
8

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

36.8%

At least one platform linked

linkedin

36.8%

14 sites linking out

facebook

21.1%

8 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
    43.2%vs 44.1% us average
  • Needs work5069
    35.1%vs 37.6% us average
  • Decent7089
    5.4%vs 5.4% us average
  • Good90100
    16.2%vs 12.9% us average

Long tail: 43% of sites land in the Critical tier. This is where the easiest wins live — any site that climbs above 50 outperforms nearly half the market.

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.

TechnologyBoise financial advisorsUS averageGap
jQueryJavaScript libraries34.2%50.0%-15.8 pts
Google AnalyticsAnalytics34.2%44.6%-10.4 pts
HTTP/3Miscellaneous26.3%34.8%-8.5 pts
WordPressBlogs36.8%31.5%+5.3 pts
jQuery MigrateJavaScript libraries23.7%28.3%-4.6 pts
PHPProgramming languages39.5%41.3%-1.8 pts
HSTSSecurity34.2%34.8%-0.6 pts
CloudflareCDN47.4%47.8%-0.4 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
94.7%

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

Meta description

Mixed
52.6%

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

Canonical tag

Mixed
63.2%

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

Open Graph tags

Mixed
57.9%

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

Structured data

Weak
47.4%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 37 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 71.1% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  2. 02

    5 pages share the same title

    Found on 63.2% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  3. 03

    No robots.txt found

    Found on 42.1% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  4. 04

    No sitemap found

    Found on 39.5% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  5. 05

    36 broken links

    Found on 26.3% of sitesSecuritymedium impact

FAQ

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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.

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