Salt Lake City · Wholesale & distribution

Average page takes 13.8s to render its main content — 11.3s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202615 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 Paint13.8svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint6.72svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.23vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.09svs 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 score5049+1.7
SEO score8586-0.7
Largest Contentful Paint13.8s13.6s+0.2s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.230.21+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

Average
81.3%

13 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

56.3%

At least one platform linked

facebook

50%

8 sites linking out

instagram

43.8%

7 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
    53.3%vs 57.9% us average
  • Needs work5069
    20.0%vs 15.8% us average
  • Decent7089
    13.3%vs 15.8% us average
  • Good90100
    13.3%vs 10.5% us average

Long tail: 53% 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 wholesale & distributionUS averageGap
jQueryJavaScript libraries50.0%40.0%+10 pts
PHPProgramming languages31.3%25.0%+6.3 pts
BootstrapUI frameworks25.0%20.0%+5 pts
Apache HTTP ServerWeb servers18.8%15.0%+3.8 pts
Google Hosted LibrariesCDN18.8%15.0%+3.8 pts
HTTP/3Miscellaneous31.3%35.0%-3.7 pts
Google Tag ManagerTag managers31.3%30.0%+1.3 pts
Google AnalyticsAnalytics31.3%30.0%+1.3 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
81.3%

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

Meta description

Mixed
68.8%

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

Canonical tag

Mixed
68.8%

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

Open Graph tags

Weak
43.8%

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

Structured data

Weak
43.8%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 15 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    No sitemap found

    Found on 75% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  2. 02

    70 broken links

    Found on 75% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  3. 03

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 68.8% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  4. 04

    24 pages share the same title

    Found on 62.5% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  5. 05

    No robots.txt found

    Found on 37.5% 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.

  • 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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