Healthcare Website Speed: 66.5% of Local Practices Pass Core Web Vitals

    We measured 158 local medical practices, from dentists to dermatologists to family doctors, across 32 US metros. 66.5% pass Core Web Vitals on mobile, well ahead of the big hospital systems and insurers.

    Core Web Vitals by metric, local practices (mobile)
    Good INP (responsiveness)
    98.6%
    Good CLS (stability)
    90.5%
    Good LCP (loading)
    78.5%

    Source: Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of 158 local medical practices with CrUX field data, mobile 75th percentile, May 2026.

    Responsiveness and stability are nearly universal. Loading is the one metric holding the sector back.

    Pass rate, local practices vs big systems (mobile)
    Local medical practices
    66.5%
    Big hospital systems and insurers
    47%

    Source: Source: PageSpeed Matters. Local practices from 158-site CrUX sample; national comparison from a separate curated set of large hospital systems and insurers.

    Healthcare web speed is not a story about big budgets winning. The light local site is the faster one.

    Source: Healthcare Website Speed: 66.5% of Local Practices Pass Core Web Vitals - PageSpeed Matters