Original research
The 2026 Routeless Local Website Benchmark: Santa Cruz.
We ran 29 Santa Cruz business websites
through the same audit (13 legal, 10 healthcare, 6 home services): homepage checks plus Google's mobile performance
test. We collected the data August 25, 2026 and left
out national chains. Santa Cruz is one of
336
US cities in the benchmark.
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100.0%
took over 2.5s to show their main content on mobile
Largest Contentful Paint above Google's 'good' threshold, 28 sites tested
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62.5/100
median mobile performance score
Google PageSpeed Insights lab score across 28 sites
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6.2s
median time to largest content on mobile
Google recommends 2.5 seconds or less
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27.6%
have no structured data at all
machine-readable markup that describes the business and page
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48.3%
run no analytics or conversion tracking we could detect
no Google Analytics, Tag Manager, or ad pixel on the homepage
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72.4%
have no contact form on their homepage
a visitor's only next step is a phone call or leaving
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34.5%
run on a DIY site builder
Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy builder, Weebly, or Duda
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1.5MB
median homepage weight
total mobile download across 28 tested sites
0–9
10–19
20–29
1
30–39
1
40–49
6
50–59
14
60–69
4
70–79
2
80–89
90+
Google mobile performance scores of the Santa Cruz
sites we tested. Under 50 is poor ·
90+ is good ·
we aim for the green band at launch.
The fastest homepage in the Santa Cruz sample showed its
main content in 3.2 seconds,
the slowest took 52.8, and the middle
half took between 5.6 and
9.8. The lightest homepage weighs
434 KB; the heaviest sends
18.2 MB to a phone.
Everything we measured in Santa Cruz, 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 |
54 | 56 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 66 | 71 | 76 |
| Main content shown (s) |
4.3 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 7.9 | 9.3 | 10.4 | 13.5 |
| Page weight (KB) |
523 | 733 | 1122 | 1432 | 1602 | 1773 | 2659 | 3904 | 7363 |
Methodology: Routeless audited 29 business websites in Santa Cruz, 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 28 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 Santa Cruz benchmark summary.
We dropped 11
Santa Cruz sites we couldn't reach, and
28 of the 29
finished a full PageSpeed run.
Sampled businesses include
Affordable Plumbing & Drain Inc., Dr. Mohana Awasthi, DDS, Brereton, Mohamed, & Korte LLP, The Corman Law Offices, Vu H Le DDS Corporation, John W. Thornton, Attorney at Law, Eco-Flow Plumbing Inc..
Collected August 25, 2026. Results describe the
29 sampled businesses, not every business
in Santa Cruz. We re-run the benchmark, so treat
these numbers as a snapshot from that date.
