Hero Video Speed 2026: 42.1% Pass CWV vs 48.1% Text

    Top 1M homepages whose largest element is a video pass Core Web Vitals 42.1% of the time, against 44.5% for image heroes and 48.1% for text, while CSS background-image heroes do worst at 35.1%.

    Core Web Vitals pass rate by hero type, WordPress vs Shopify homepages
    WordPress text52.7%
    WordPress image51.4%
    WordPress video41.1%
    WordPress background image42.8%
    Shopify text60.2%
    Shopify image58.6%
    Shopify video54.6%
    Shopify background image51.4%

    Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive top 1M crawl, Sept 2026, mobile, CrUX p75.

    Correlation only: hero type is the lab LCP element, pass rates are real-user data.

    Source: Hero Video Speed 2026: 42.1% Pass CWV vs 48.1% Text - PageSpeed Matters