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Which Industries Have the Fastest Websites? We Measured 1.1 Million

5 min readJuly 23, 2026Verified against codebase

We measured real-world site speed across 1.1 million US business websites and grouped it by industry. The spread is 17 points.

Simple local and consumer sites like restaurants and recreation are the fastest. Content-heavy media sites and business-to-business sites are the slowest. Here is the full ranking, and why the pattern shows up.

AIndustry
Internal data research, US business web corpus
BStack
BigQuery, Chrome UX Report (CrUX), HTTP Archive
COutcome
A 17-point spread. Simple local and consumer sites like restaurants, recreation, and retail pass Core Web Vitals most often. Content-heavy media sites and business-to-business or professional-services sites lag behind.

At a glance

Which industries actually have the fastest websites? We answered it with field data from real visitors, not opinion.

76%
Fastest industries
restaurants and recreation, Core Web Vitals pass rate
59%
Slowest industry
professional services: law, accounting, consulting
17 pts
The spread
fastest industry vs slowest
67%
All-industry baseline
pass rate across every site measured

What we measured

Core Web Vitals are Google's real-world speed and stability scores. We pulled them from the Chrome User Experience Report, which records how actual US mobile Chrome users experience a site, then grouped every measured site in our 1.1 million-site corpus by industry. A site passes when it clears all three thresholds at once. Only sites with enough real traffic to measure are included.

The ranking

Consumer and local-service industries sit at the top. Content-heavy and business-to-business industries sit at the bottom, all measured against the 67% all-industry baseline.

Core Web Vitals pass rate by industry
RestaurantsRecreationRetailGovernmentHealthcareEducationContent / mediaB2B servicesProfessional services0%20%40%60%80%

Baseline is 67%, the pass rate across all industries. Source: Stackra corpus, Chrome UX Report field data (US mobile), 2026.

Core Web Vitals pass rate by industry
IndustryCWV pass rateSites measured
Restaurants76%56,174
Recreation76%12,622
Retail74%57,306
Government74%10,906
Healthcare71%21,244
Education68%18,676
Content / media62%13,755
B2B services62%15,414
Professional services59%11,551

Baseline is 67%. Source: Stackra corpus, Chrome UX Report field data (US mobile), 2026.

Why content-heavy sites lag

The pattern follows page weight. A restaurant or recreation site is usually light: a few pages, some photos, a menu. Media sites carry video, ad scripts, and heavy interactive elements. B2B and professional-services sites are more often custom-built on heavier stacks. More on the page means more for a phone to load, and slower phones fall behind first.

What this means for your site

Your industry sets a rough expectation, not a ceiling. A professional-services site can absolutely pass Core Web Vitals. It just starts from a heavier average. The fix is the same in every industry: lighter pages, compressed images, and shipping real HTML instead of building the page in the browser.

LB
Luke Beck
Founder, Stackra
Last verified July 23, 2026
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