Has the web actually gotten faster? We tracked real-user Core Web Vitals across six years. The median mobile site now loads in 2.0 seconds, taps answer in 100ms, and 87% of sites are visually stable. Every metric improved.
Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of Chrome UX Report field data, mobile, 2020 to 2026.
The typical site's loading time crossed Google's 2.5-second good line around 2022 and kept falling.
Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis, mobile field data. INP measured from 2022. Bar shows 2026 good-rate.
Stability and responsiveness are largely solved. Loading is the metric still worth auditing first.
Source: The Median Page Load Time Is Now 2.0 Seconds, Down From 2.7 in 2020 - PageSpeed Matters