Industry benchmark

Average page takes 12.4s to render its main content — 9.9s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 2026279 sites analyzed

Key findings

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

  1. 01

    Average page takes 12.4s to render its main content — 9.9s over Google's passing threshold.

  2. 02

    Average Google PageSpeed score is 49/100 — well below the 50 passing bar.

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 Paint12.4svs 2.50s
First Contentful Paint4.35svs 1.80s
Cumulative Layout Shift0.05vs 0.10
Time to First Byte0.07svs 0.80s

Security

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

Sites with SSL

Average
89.4%

253 secure, 30 without

Sites without SSL

Exposed
30

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

44.9%

At least one platform linked

facebook

36.7%

104 sites linking out

instagram

36%

102 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
    46.1%
  • Needs work5069
    32.3%
  • Decent7089
    13.8%
  • Good90100
    7.8%

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.

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
86.9%

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

Meta description

Mixed
59.4%

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

Canonical tag

Weak
49.8%

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

Open Graph tags

Mixed
68.6%

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

Structured data

Weak
44.9%

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 279 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    38 pages share the same title

    Found on 73.9% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  2. 02

    261 broken links

    Found on 69.3% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  3. 03

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 66.8% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  4. 04

    No sitemap found

    Found on 35% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  5. 05

    No robots.txt found

    Found on 26.9% of sitesSEOhigh impact

FAQ

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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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