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Average page takes 11.1s to render its main content — 8.6s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of May 2026216 sites analyzed

At a glance

Performance
SEO
Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

Avg. LCP

11.1s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

4.0s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.078

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.

  • Critical0–49
    43.5%
  • Needs work50–69
    37.4%
  • Decent70–89
    17.8%
  • Good90–100
    1.4%

Long tail: 44% 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 216 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 88% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  2. 02

    1 pages share the same title

    Found on 80.1% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  3. 03

    4 broken links

    Found on 63.4% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  4. 04

    No sitemap found

    Found on 34.7% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  5. 05

    Certificate expires in 9 days

    Found on 18.5% of sitesSecuritymedium impact

FAQ

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

Node.js sites in our sample average 52/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 11.1s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow Node.js sites in every industry we track.

Node.js is most common in real estate agents (26 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 Node.js benchmark, so you can see whether your current stack is costing you speed or SEO rankings.

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.

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

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