Salt Lake City · Print & signs

27.3% of these sites are still flagged "Not secure" by Chrome — the single cheapest fix in the report.

Data as of April 202611 sites analyzed

Key findings

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

  1. 01

    27.3% of these sites are still flagged "Not secure" by Chrome — the single cheapest fix in the report.

  2. 02

    Average page takes 13.9s to render its main content — 11.4s 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 Paint13.9svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint5.25svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.16vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.04svs 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 score5559-4.1 pts
SEO score8886+1.3
Largest Contentful Paint13.9s10.6s+3.36s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.160.10+0.05
Time to First Byte0.0s0.1s-0.03

Security

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

Sites with SSL

Weak
72.7%

8 secure, 3 without

Sites without SSL

Exposed
3

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

27.3%

At least one platform linked

facebook

27.3%

3 sites linking out

instagram

27.3%

3 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
    46.2%vs 34.5% us average
  • Needs work5069
    23.1%vs 27.6% us average
  • Decent7089
    7.7%vs 24.1% us average
  • Good90100
    23.1%vs 13.8% us average

Long tail: 46% 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.

TechnologySalt Lake City print & signsUS averageGap
HSTS0.0%29.6%-29.6 pts
BootstrapUI frameworks27.3%0.0%+27.3 pts
jQueryJavaScript libraries54.5%66.7%-12.2 pts
Google AnalyticsAnalytics36.4%48.1%-11.7 pts
NginxReverse proxies18.2%25.9%-7.7 pts
HTTP/3Miscellaneous36.4%29.6%+6.8 pts
CloudflareCDN36.4%29.6%+6.8 pts
PHPProgramming languages54.5%48.1%+6.4 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

Mixed
63.6%

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

Meta description

Weak
36.4%

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

Canonical tag

Mixed
54.5%

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

Open Graph tags

Mixed
54.5%

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

Structured data

Weak
36.4%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 11 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    12 pages share the same title

    Found on 63.6% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  2. 02

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 54.5% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  3. 03

    No sitemap found

    Found on 54.5% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  4. 04

    4 broken links

    Found on 36.4% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  5. 05

    No valid SSL certificate

    Found on 27.3% of sitesSecuritymedium impact

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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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