Web servers

Average page takes 13.5s to render its main content — 11.0s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of May 202613 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 13.5s to render its main content — 11.0s over Google's passing threshold.

  2. 02

    Average Google PageSpeed score is 43/100 — well below the 50 passing bar.

At a glance

Performance
SEO
Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

Avg. LCP

13.5s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

4.6s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.224

Good: < 0.1

Avg. TTFB

0.1s

Good: < 0.8s

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
    61.5%
  • Needs work5069
    30.8%
  • Decent7089
    7.7%
  • Good90100
    0.0%

Long tail: 62% 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.

Adoption by industry

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

Quick wins

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 13 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

  1. 01

    Main content takes too long to appear

    Found on 84.6% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  2. 02

    2 pages share the same title

    Found on 76.9% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  3. 03

    No sitemap found

    Found on 30.8% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  4. 04

    No robots.txt found

    Found on 30.8% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  5. 05

    133 broken links

    Found on 30.8% of sitesSecuritymedium impact

FAQ

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

Kestrel sites in our sample average 43/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 13.5s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow Kestrel sites in every industry we track.

Kestrel is most common in aesthetic treatments (2 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

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

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 Kestrel websites. Web Boost is the monthly retainer that actually ships the fixes: senior developers, AI-assisted, concrete before/after reports, cancel anytime.

  • 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

  • Beamline
  • Mabbly
  • EY
  • Allianz
  • Workwize
  • Toptal
  • Tent Foundation
  • Koppa
  • RLC Solutions

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