Law Firm Website Speed: Only 48.4% of Local Firms Pass Core Web Vitals

    We measured 186 local law firms across 32 US metros. Only 48% pass Core Web Vitals on mobile, and the culprit is the marketing stack a local firm bolts onto its homepage.

    Core Web Vitals by metric, local firms (mobile)
    Good INP (responsiveness)
    96.2%
    Good CLS (stability)
    91.4%
    Good LCP (loading)
    74.2%

    Source: Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of 186 local law firms with CrUX field data, mobile 75th percentile, May 2026.

    Interaction and layout are fine. Loading is the lone weak metric, and it is a marketing-stack problem.

    Pass rate, local firms vs elite national firms (mobile)
    Elite national firms
    77%
    Local law firms
    48.4%

    Source: Source: PageSpeed Matters. Local firms from 186-site CrUX sample; national comparison from a separate curated set of major national firms.

    The elite firms are fast because their sites are light. The local firm can be just as fast and still run its full lead-gen toolkit.

    Source: Law Firm Website Speed: Only 48.4% of Local Firms Pass Core Web Vitals - PageSpeed Matters