How many Handlebars websites did you analyze?

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

Handlebars sites in our sample average 55/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 9.3s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow Handlebars sites in every industry we track.

What industries use Handlebars the most?

Handlebars is most common in real estate agents (5 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

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

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

JavaScript frameworks

Handlebars website performance

Average page takes 9.3s to render its main content — 6.8s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202617 sites analyzed

At a glance

Average scores across 17 Handlebars sites

Performance

SEO

Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

How Handlebars sites perform in the real world

Avg. LCP

9.3s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

3.7s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.151

Good: < 0.1

Avg. TTFB

0.2s

Good: < 0.8s

Performance spread

How Handlebars 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
33.3%
Needs work50–69
50.0%
Decent70–89
16.7%
Good90–100
0.0%

Heavy on the slow side: 83% of sites score below 70. Speed is the differentiator most of this market hasn't invested in yet.

Adoption by industry

Where Handlebars shows up most

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

Quick wins

The fixes that would move most Handlebars sites forward

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 17 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

01
4 broken links
Found on 88.2% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
02
Main content takes too long to appear
Found on 70.6% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
03
1 pages share the same title
Found on 58.8% of sitesSEOmedium impact
04
No sitemap found
Found on 23.5% of sitesSEOhigh impact
05
Elements shift while the page loads
Found on 11.8% of sitesSpeedhigh impact

FAQ

Common questions

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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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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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