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title: "Hero Video Speed 2026: 42.1% Pass CWV vs 48.1% Text - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/hero-video-speed
description: "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%."
lang: en
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Hero Video Speed 2026: 42.1% Pass CWV vs 48.1% Text (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/hero-video-speed)

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 text 52.7%

WordPress image 51.4%

WordPress video 41.1%

WordPress background image 42.8%

Shopify text 60.2%

Shopify image 58.6%

Shopify video 54.6%

Shopify background image 51.4%

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 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/hero-video-speed)