Salt Lake City · Personal injury lawyers

Average page takes 7.3s to render its main content — 4.8s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202624 sites analyzed

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 Paint7.32svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint2.66svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.07vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.12svs 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 score6965+3.9 pts
SEO score8990-1.4
Largest Contentful Paint7.3s8.0s-0.66s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.070.09-0.02
Time to First Byte0.1s0.1s+0.01

Security

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

Sites with SSL

Strong
95.8%

23 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

70.8%

At least one platform linked

facebook

58.3%

14 sites linking out

linkedin

58.3%

14 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
    16.7%vs 28.6% us average
  • Needs work5069
    37.5%vs 31.4% us average
  • Decent7089
    25.0%vs 25.7% us average
  • Good90100
    20.8%vs 14.3% us average

Mixed: sites are spread roughly evenly across the tiers. There's no single bar to clear — whatever you fix, it'll put you ahead of a good chunk of the sample.

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.

TechnologySalt Lake City personal injury lawyersUS averageGap
HSTSSecurity37.5%0.0%+37.5 pts
WordPressBlogs66.7%42.9%+23.8 pts
jQueryJavaScript libraries41.7%51.4%-9.7 pts
CloudflareCDN37.5%45.7%-8.2 pts
HTTP/3Miscellaneous50.0%57.1%-7.1 pts
Google Tag ManagerTag managers54.2%60.0%-5.8 pts
MySQLDatabases66.7%71.4%-4.7 pts
PHPProgramming languages75.0%77.1%-2.1 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
91.7%

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

Meta description

Mixed
79.2%

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

Canonical tag

Strong
83.3%

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

Open Graph tags

Strong
83.3%

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

Structured data

Strong
83.3%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 24 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    41 broken links

    Found on 37.5% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  2. 02

    No sitemap found

    Found on 33.3% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  3. 03

    1 pages share the same title

    Found on 25% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  4. 04

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 20.8% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  5. 05

    No robots.txt found

    Found on 20.8% of sitesSEOhigh impact

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  • Speed + Core Web Vitals

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

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