How many Drupal websites did you analyze?

33 sites using Drupal. Each one ran the full diagnostic — PageSpeed, SEO checks, SSL verification, and full tech-stack detection.

Drupal sites in our sample average 55/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 14.4s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow Drupal sites in every industry we track.

What industries use Drupal the most?

Drupal is most common in dental clinics (2 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

How do I know if Drupal is right for my website?

Run the free audit on this page. You'll get your own site's performance scored against the Drupal benchmark, so you can see whether your current stack is costing you speed or SEO rankings.

CMS

Drupal website performance

Average page takes 14.4s to render its main content — 11.9s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202633 sites analyzed

At a glance

Average scores across 33 Drupal sites

Performance

SEO

Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

How Drupal sites perform in the real world

Avg. LCP

14.4s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

4.4s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.064

Good: < 0.1

Avg. TTFB

0.0s

Good: < 0.8s

Performance spread

How Drupal sites cluster on page speed

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.

Critical0–49
24.2%
Needs work50–69
69.7%
Decent70–89
6.1%
Good90–100
0.0%

Heavy on the slow side: 94% of sites score below 70. Speed is the differentiator most of this market hasn't invested in yet.

Adoption by industry

Where Drupal shows up most

Top industries running this stack, based on the diagnostic sample.

Quick wins

The fixes that would move most Drupal sites forward

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 33 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

01
Main content takes too long to appear
Found on 42.4% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
02
24 broken links
Found on 39.4% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
03
1 pages share the same title
Found on 36.4% of sitesSEOmedium impact
04
No sitemap found
Found on 27.3% of sitesSEOhigh impact
05
Elements shift while the page loads
Found on 3% of sitesSpeedhigh impact

FAQ

Common questions

How we fix it

Web Boost — we fix the gaps we just showed you, every month

The diagnostic above tells you what's broken on Drupal websites. Web Boost is the monthly retainer that actually ships the fixes: senior developers, AI-assisted, concrete before/after reports, cancel anytime.

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See how Web Boost works →

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.

The diagnostic engine is the same one we ship for product and agency clients

Is Drupal working for your site?

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