Original research · Mobile lab test · snapshot 2026-08-26
95.4% of tested sites missed the 2.5-second LCP benchmark.
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measures when the largest visible element on a page finishes rendering. Google treats 2.5 seconds or less as good. In this sample, the median business homepage took 7.9 seconds in a mobile Lighthouse lab test.
95.4% of 11,184 sites missed the 2.5-second mobile LCP benchmark.
A slow first screen is the part of a website a visitor on a phone experiences before anything else. This finding is a lab measurement, so it shows how the page performs under one controlled mobile profile, not how every visitor experienced it.
Routeless Website Benchmark • n=11,184 • 2026-08. This is mobile Lighthouse lab LCP for completed PageSpeed runs, not field performance for every visitor.
By industry
How the published industry cohorts compare.
Industry cohorts publish only when the snapshot holds enough valid observations. They are observational comparisons within the sample, not rankings of every business in the industry.
Cohort
Share that missed the 2.5-second mobile LCP benchmark
This finding, its data, and its chart are available under CC BY 4.0. Credit Routeless, link to this page, and keep the collection window and sample size with the figure.
Suggested citation
Routeless. “95.4% of tested sites missed the 2.5-second LCP benchmark.” State of Small Business Websites 2026, Routeless Business Website Benchmark, revision 2, 2026-08-26. https://www.routeless.io/website-benchmarks/findings/mobile-speed
