Image File Names on Top 1M Sites: 1 in 5 Describe Nothing

    21.1% of 26.7M image requests over 5 KB on top-1M pages have file names that say nothing about the picture: 10.5% are hashes or UUIDs, 9.5% are only numbers, 0.84% are camera defaults like IMG_ or DSC_ and 0.21% are screenshot names.

    Image requests with camera default file names, by platform
    Shopify2.44%
    WordPress2.13%
    Website builders0.93%
    Other or custom0.48%
    JavaScript frameworks0.23%

    Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive Sept 2026 mobile crawl, 26,725,868 image requests over 5 KB on top-1M pages.

    Counts are requests, not unique images.

    Source: Image File Names on Top 1M Sites: 1 in 5 Describe Nothing - PageSpeed Matters