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title: "Image File Names on Top 1M Sites: 1 in 5 Describe Nothing - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/image-file-name-statistics
description: "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."
lang: en
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Image File Names on Top 1M Sites: 1 in 5 Describe Nothing (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/image-file-name-statistics)

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

Shopify 2.44%

WordPress 2.13%

Website builders 0.93%

Other or custom 0.48%

JavaScript frameworks 0.23%

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 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/image-file-name-statistics)