Industry benchmark

Average page takes 8.2s to render its main content — 5.7s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202620 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 Paint8.15svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint3.93svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.19vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.04svs 0.80s

Security

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

Sites with SSL

Strong
95%

19 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

50%

At least one platform linked

instagram

50%

10 sites linking out

facebook

45%

9 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
    20.0%
  • Needs work5069
    35.0%
  • Decent7089
    30.0%
  • Good90100
    15.0%

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.

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
75%

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

Meta description

Mixed
60%

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

Canonical tag

Mixed
60%

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

Open Graph tags

Mixed
65%

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

Structured data

Mixed
60%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 20 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    2 broken links

    Found on 20% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  2. 02

    No sitemap found

    Found on 15% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  3. 03

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 15% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  4. 04

    1 pages share the same title

    Found on 5% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  5. 05

    Elements shift while the page loads

    Found on 5% of sitesSpeedhigh impact

FAQ

Top markets

The cities with the most eye care websites in our sample. Jump straight into the local benchmark for any of them.

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How we fix it

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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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