Phoenix · Restaurants
Restaurants in Phoenix: website benchmarks
Average page takes 14.6s to render its main content — 12.1s over Google's passing threshold.
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202 restaurants in Phoenix with contact + diagnostic data. Delivered by email in ~5 minutes.
- Business name, address, phone, website
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- Google rating, review count, category
- PageSpeed, SSL, tech stack
- SEO basics: meta, canonical, og, schema
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At a glance
Headline scores
Averages across the full sample. Google's thresholds shown as the white marker on each bar.
Core Web Vitals
How sites perform in the real world
The four metrics Google uses to rank pages. Lower is better for all of them.
Local vs national
How this compares to us average
A head-to-head on every metric Google measures. Green is better than the national average, purple is worse.
| Metric | Local | US average | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance score | 51 | 51 | +0.1 |
| SEO score | 91 | 91 | -0.1 |
| Largest Contentful Paint | 14.6s | 13.8s | +0.75s |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.13 | 0.12 | +0.01 |
| Time to First Byte | 0.1s | 0.1s | +0.01 |
Security
SSL and HTTPS adoption
No SSL in 2026 is a trust killer — and a Chrome warning. These numbers should be 100%.
Sites with SSL
Average189 secure, 13 without
Sites without SSL
ExposedEach of these loses visitors at the browser warning
Technology landscape
What this market runs on
Top platforms, CMSs, and analytics tools detected across the sample.
Social presence
Where these businesses show up online
Share of sites that link out to each platform from their homepage footer or header.
With any social
At least one platform linked
121 sites linking out
111 sites linking out
Performance spread
How Phoenix restaurants cluster on page speed
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.
- Critical0–4948.1%vs 47.4% us average
- Needs work50–6933.2%vs 37.6% us average
- Decent70–8912.5%vs 10.0% us average
- Good90–1006.3%vs 5.0% us average
Long tail: 48% 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
How Phoenix restaurants differ from the US average
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.
| Technology | Phoenix restaurants | US average | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager | 0.0% | 27.6% | -27.6 pts |
| BootstrapUI frameworks | 25.2% | 0.0% | +25.2 pts |
| MySQLDatabases | 42.6% | 34.5% | +8.1 pts |
| WordPressBlogs | 36.1% | 30.1% | +6 pts |
| jQuery MigrateJavaScript libraries | 31.2% | 25.3% | +5.9 pts |
| PHPProgramming languages | 43.1% | 37.5% | +5.6 pts |
| HSTSSecurity | 43.6% | 47.7% | -4.1 pts |
| HTTP/3Miscellaneous | 31.2% | 29.0% | +2.2 pts |
SEO health
The basics Google expects from Phoenix restaurants
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
StrongSites declaring a mobile viewport — without this, Chrome renders pages at desktop zoom on phones.
Meta description
MixedSites with a populated meta description — the text Google shows in search results.
Canonical tag
MixedSites declaring which URL is the main one — prevents duplicate-content penalties across www, http, and tracking-parameter variants.
Open Graph tags
MixedSites with og:title / og:image tags — controls how links preview on LinkedIn, Facebook, iMessage.
Structured data
MixedSites publishing JSON-LD schema — unlocks rich results (stars, hours, FAQ snippets).
Quick wins
The fixes that would move most Phoenix restaurants forward
Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 202 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.
- 01
Main content takes too long to appear
Found on 85.1% of sitesSpeedhigh impact - 02
1 pages share the same title
Found on 78.2% of sitesSEOmedium impact - 03
No sitemap found
Found on 34.7% of sitesSEOhigh impact - 04
1 broken links
Found on 28.7% of sitesSecuritymedium impact - 05
No robots.txt found
Found on 23.3% of sitesSEOhigh impact
FAQ
Common questions
202 restaurants in Phoenix. Every site had a full diagnostic run — crawl, PageSpeed, SSL check, technology detection. The numbers aggregate across that sample.
Phoenix restaurants score 51/100 on average. That's roughly in line with the national average, so Phoenix is a typical market for restaurants.
Across the sample, the most common issue is "Main content takes too long to appear" — found on 85.1% of sites. The full list is in the Quick wins section above.
93.6% of Phoenix restaurants 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 Phoenix restaurants. Takes under 60 seconds.
Nearby markets
Restaurants in other cities
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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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