Original research
The 2026 Routeless Local Website Benchmark: Mountain View.
We ran 35 Mountain View business websites
through the same audit (13 healthcare, 12 legal, 10 home services): homepage checks plus Google's mobile performance
test. We collected the data August 25, 2026 and left
out national chains. Mountain View is one of
336
US cities in the benchmark.
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93.9%
took over 2.5s to show their main content on mobile
Largest Contentful Paint above Google's 'good' threshold, 33 sites tested
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69.0/100
median mobile performance score
Google PageSpeed Insights lab score across 33 sites
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5.7s
median time to largest content on mobile
Google recommends 2.5 seconds or less
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22.9%
have no structured data at all
machine-readable markup that describes the business and page
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34.3%
run no analytics or conversion tracking we could detect
no Google Analytics, Tag Manager, or ad pixel on the homepage
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60.0%
have no contact form on their homepage
a visitor's only next step is a phone call or leaving
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14.3%
run on a DIY site builder
Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy builder, Weebly, or Duda
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1.6MB
median homepage weight
total mobile download across 33 tested sites
0–9
10–19
1
20–29
3
30–39
3
40–49
4
50–59
6
60–69
8
70–79
6
80–89
2
90+
Google mobile performance scores of the Mountain View
sites we tested. Under 50 is poor ·
90+ is good ·
we aim for the green band at launch.
The fastest homepage in the Mountain View sample showed its
main content in 1.4 seconds,
the slowest took 46.1, and the middle
half took between 4.3 and
12.1. The lightest homepage weighs
99 KB; the heaviest sends
47.3 MB to a phone.
Everything we measured in Mountain View, from worst to
best. The 50th column is the typical site. Beat the 90th
column and you're ahead of nine in ten sites we tested:
| Percentile |
10th | 20th | 30th | 40th | 50th | 60th | 70th | 80th | 90th |
| Mobile score |
32 | 48 | 53 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 76 | 82 | 88 |
| Main content shown (s) |
2.9 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 7.0 | 11.6 | 14.0 | 18.6 |
| Page weight (KB) |
443 | 526 | 765 | 1393 | 1618 | 2565 | 3871 | 5117 | 11860 |
Methodology: Routeless audited 35 business websites in Mountain View, CA (2026Q3 benchmark). Homepage signals (CMS, structured data, contact paths, analytics) were collected from each site's live homepage; performance figures are Google PageSpeed Insights mobile lab metrics for the 33 sites that completed a run. Businesses were sampled across industries from public listings and licensing registries; national chains were excluded.
Read
Google's PageSpeed Insights methodology
and
download the anonymized Mountain View benchmark summary.
We dropped 5
Mountain View sites we couldn't reach, and
33 of the 35
finished a full PageSpeed run.
Sampled businesses include
Aesthetics & Essentials Dental Group, Actfast Legal Eviction Services, The Rapacke Law Group, P.A., Law Office of Daphne Wang & Jessica Wang, Blue Field Law, The Law Office of Sara Colpitts, Dental Fabulous.
Collected August 25, 2026. Results describe the
35 sampled businesses, not every business
in Mountain View. We re-run the benchmark, so treat
these numbers as a snapshot from that date.
