How many Select2 websites did you analyze?

30 sites using Select2. Each one ran the full diagnostic — PageSpeed, SEO checks, SSL verification, and full tech-stack detection.

Select2 sites in our sample average 50/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 13.7s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow Select2 sites in every industry we track.

What industries use Select2 the most?

Select2 is most common in insurance (3 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

How do I know if Select2 is right for my website?

Run the free audit on this page. You'll get your own site's performance scored against the Select2 benchmark, so you can see whether your current stack is costing you speed or SEO rankings.

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Select2 website performance

Average page takes 13.7s to render its main content — 11.2s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202630 sites analyzed

Key findings

What the data says about Select2 sites

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

01
Average page takes 13.7s to render its main content — 11.2s over Google's passing threshold.
02
Average Google PageSpeed score is 50/100 — well below the 50 passing bar.

At a glance

Average scores across 30 Select2 sites

Performance

SEO

Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

How Select2 sites perform in the real world

Avg. LCP

13.7s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

4.3s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.096

Good: < 0.1

Avg. TTFB

0.1s

Good: < 0.8s

Performance spread

How Select2 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
39.4%
Needs work50–69
57.6%
Decent70–89
3.0%
Good90–100
0.0%

Heavy on the slow side: 97% of sites score below 70. Speed is the differentiator most of this market hasn't invested in yet.

Adoption by industry

Where Select2 shows up most

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

Quick wins

The fixes that would move most Select2 sites forward

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 30 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 43.3% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
02
15 broken links
Found on 43.3% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
03
5 pages share the same title
Found on 36.7% of sitesSEOmedium impact
04
No sitemap found
Found on 26.7% of sitesSEOhigh impact
05
Elements shift while the page loads
Found on 13.3% of sitesSpeedhigh impact

FAQ

Common questions

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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