PaaS

Average page takes 11.6s to render its main content — 9.1s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of May 202612 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 11.6s to render its main content — 9.1s over Google's passing threshold.

  2. 02

    Average Google PageSpeed score is 40/100 — well below the 50 passing bar.

At a glance

Performance
SEO
Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

Avg. LCP

11.6s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

3.6s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.234

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
    83.3%
  • Needs work50–69
    16.7%
  • Decent70–89
    0.0%
  • Good90–100
    0.0%

Long tail: 83% 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 12 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 100% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
  2. 02

    18 broken links

    Found on 75% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
  3. 03

    1 pages share the same title

    Found on 66.7% of sitesSEOmedium impact
  4. 04

    No sitemap found

    Found on 50% of sitesSEOhigh impact
  5. 05

    Elements shift while the page loads

    Found on 33.3% of sitesSpeedhigh impact

FAQ

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

WordPress VIP sites in our sample average 40/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 11.6s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow WordPress VIP sites in every industry we track.

WordPress VIP is most common in restaurants (3 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

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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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