Industry benchmark

50% of these sites are still flagged "Not secure" by Chrome — the single cheapest fix in the report.

Data as of May 202614 sites analyzed
Dataset

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14 appraisers across the US with contact + diagnostic data. Delivered by email in ~5 minutes.

  • Business name, address, phone, website
  • Up to 3 emails per record
  • Google rating, review count, category
  • PageSpeed, SSL, tech stack
  • SEO basics: meta, canonical, og, schema
  • Social links: IG, FB, LinkedIn, YouTube
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Key findings

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

  1. 01

    50% of these sites are still flagged "Not secure" by Chrome — the single cheapest fix in the report.

  2. 02

    Average page takes 4.4s to render its main content — 1.9s over Google's passing threshold.

  3. 03

    Only 14.3% publish structured data — leaving rich-result real estate on the table for any site that adds it.

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 Paint4.41svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint1.90svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.03vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.00svs 0.80s

Security

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

Sites with SSL

Weak
50%

7 secure, 7 without

Sites without SSL

Exposed
7

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

21.4%

At least one platform linked

facebook

14.3%

2 sites linking out

linkedin

14.3%

2 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.

  • Critical049
    7.1%
  • Needs work5069
    21.4%
  • Decent7089
    14.3%
  • Good90100
    57.1%

Cluster at the top: 57% of sites score Good. The market has figured speed out — any Critical-tier site is leaving money on the table against this peer group.

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
78.6%

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

Meta description

Weak
28.6%

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

Canonical tag

Weak
21.4%

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

Open Graph tags

Weak
35.7%

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

Structured data

Weak
14.3%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 14 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    No sitemap found

    Found on 85.7% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  2. 02

    No robots.txt found

    Found on 78.6% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  3. 03

    No valid SSL certificate

    Found on 64.3% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  4. 04

    1 pages share the same title

    Found on 50% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  5. 05

    HTTPS not detected

    Found on 50% of sitesSecuritymedium impact

FAQ

We ran full diagnostics on 14 appraisers websites across the US. Every site on this page cleared our complete crawl — PageSpeed, SSL, tech stack, social links, and structured data — so the numbers represent real, production sites, not samples from a survey.

The average appraiser site in our sample scores 83/100 on Google PageSpeed. Anything above 80/100 puts you ahead of most of your competitors. Below 50 is where sites start losing traffic to faster alternatives — Google's own data shows bounce rate climbs sharply past a 3-second load time.

Google's "Good" threshold for Largest Contentful Paint is 2.5 seconds. The average appraiser website we analyzed takes 4.4s. If your LCP is above 2.5s, you're penalized in search rankings and visitors drop off before your homepage finishes rendering.

Across our sample, the top technologies are Google Cloud (42.9%), Google Cloud CDN (42.9%), jQuery (28.6%). Platform choice matters less than how it's configured — we see well-tuned WordPress sites outperform poorly-built custom builds routinely.

50% of the appraisers sites we analyzed use SSL. Any site without HTTPS gets a "Not secure" warning in Chrome, which kills trust — especially for appraisers where clients are handing over personal details or payment info. It's free to add and takes minutes.

Enter your URL in the audit box on this page. You'll get a free report covering performance, SEO, SSL, and tech stack — benchmarked against the same 14 appraisers sites we used here. Results arrive in under 60 seconds. No signup or credit card.

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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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