Website Speed by Industry 2026
Core Web Vitals benchmarks by sector, from real-user field data - which industries load fastest, which lag, and how each vertical compares. Every industry links to its full study.
Last updated July 2026 from the May 2026 CrUX release.
The headline numbers
Government and Healthcare Pass 78.9%. Tech and SaaS Passes 10%.
Only 48.4% of Local Law Firm Sites Pass Core Web Vitals.
Two in Three Nonprofit Websites Fail Core Web Vitals.
The World's Biggest News Sites Pass Core Web Vitals 80% of the Time.
Local Credit Unions Pass 57.4%. Big National Banks Pass 39%.
The cross-industry benchmark
Source: Chrome UX Report, May 2026 release, via BigQuery. ~20 leading brands per industry.
By sector
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.
Only 48.4% of Local Law Firm Sites Pass Core Web Vitals.
Two in Three Nonprofit Websites Fail Core Web Vitals.
The World's Biggest News Sites Pass Core Web Vitals 80% of the Time.
Local Credit Unions Pass 57.4%. Big National Banks Pass 39%.
66.5% of Local Medical Practice Sites Pass Core Web Vitals.
Only 40.2% of Local Real Estate Sites Pass Core Web Vitals.
71.5% of Restaurant Sites Pass Core Web Vitals - Chains Manage Just 38%.
52.2% of Ranking Local Businesses Pass Core Web Vitals.
Fewer Than Half of University Websites Pass Core Web Vitals.
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Website Speed by Industry 2026. PageSpeed Matters. https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/statistics/by-industry
Every statistic here comes from an original study with full methodology, charts, and a downloadable dataset.
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