Gitnux/Report 2026

View Website Statistics

See exactly what’s costing sites attention right now, with 53.3% of worldwide traffic on mobile and warnings that performance slips can trigger abandonment when pages take longer than 3 seconds. View Website packs Core Web Vitals into one place so you can spot the tradeoffs between load time, layout stability, and interaction delays while also getting practical checks like image optimization, HTTP/2 and compression, plus the security and compliance signals that quietly impact uptime.
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View Website Statistics
Marcus AfolabiWritten by Marcus Afolabi·Edited by Yumi Nakamura·Fact-checked by Nicholas Chambers
Last verified May 13, 2026
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Mobile traffic already drives 53.3% of all website traffic worldwide, yet half the performance battle is still about whether pages load fast enough to keep users. We pulled together the latest View Website statistics on Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse recommendations, and the real cost of slow experiences, including how quickly abandon rates spike after 3 seconds and how caching and modern protocols like HTTP/2 can shift outcomes. You will also see how security and privacy rules, from OWASP logging gaps to GDPR fine exposure, can quietly influence how sites perform and what it costs to run them.

Key Takeaways

  • 53.3% of all website traffic worldwide comes from mobile devices
  • 36.0% of global web traffic originated from North America in 2023
  • 44.4% of web users are more likely to abandon sites that take longer than 3 seconds to load
  • Google’s Lighthouse recommends image optimization as a best practice to reduce load time
  • Google reports that 53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load
  • Web Vitals guidance defines three core metrics for performance: LCP, CLS, INP
  • The HTTP Archive report “State of the Web” is updated regularly and provides annual medians and distributions for web features
  • Google Lighthouse defines 6 performance categories including Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, PWA, and so on
  • TLS 1.3 is defined in RFC 8446 and supports modern cipher suites
  • OWASP Top 10: Insufficient Logging and Monitoring is included among top risks
  • The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was released in 2018 as version 1.1 for improving security posture
  • S3 transfer pricing can materially affect web cost at scale; typical pricing is $0.023 per GB-month (region varies)
  • CloudFront data transfer pricing varies by region; typical US price tiers apply to GB
  • Fastly charges per request and data transfer; request pricing tiers apply at scale

Improving Core Web Vitals with faster, optimized loading can reduce abandonment and boost engagement.

Related reading

01 · Category

Web Traffic Sources2 stats

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53.3% of all website traffic worldwide comes from mobile devices
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36.0% of global web traffic originated from North America in 2023
Interpretation

Web Traffic Sources Interpretation

For web traffic sources, mobile devices drive 53.3% of all global website traffic, showing that most incoming visits are likely to come through mobile channels regardless of region even as 36.0% of web traffic originated from North America in 2023.

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Web Performance Benchmarks12 stats

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44.4% of web users are more likely to abandon sites that take longer than 3 seconds to load
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Google’s Lighthouse recommends image optimization as a best practice to reduce load time
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Google reports that 53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take longer than 3 seconds to load
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An HTTP/2 enabled site can reduce page load times by 11% on average versus HTTP/1.1 (industrial tests)
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Gzip compression can reduce HTML/CSS/JS payload sizes by 60–70% (common web performance engineering results)
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Core Web Vitals were rolled into Page Experience in Google Search (mobile and desktop) starting 2021
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HTTP/2 is widely adopted; Statcounter reports HTTP/2 usage increasing steadily (platform stats)
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The average time spent on-site increases when bounce rate decreases; benchmarks tie lower bounce to longer sessions
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Largest Contentful Paint is measured as the render time of the largest visible content element
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CLS measures the sum of all unexpected layout shift scores during the entire lifespan of the page
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INP measures the latency of page interaction responses, considering the interaction timeline
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Preconnect reduces latency by establishing early connections; web.dev documents this optimization
Interpretation

Web Performance Benchmarks Interpretation

For web performance benchmarks, the biggest takeaway is that loading slower than 3 seconds drives major abandonment, with 44.4% of users and 53% of mobile visitors more likely to leave, so improving speed with proven tactics like image optimization, compression, and modern protocols can directly move key UX outcomes.

More related reading

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Security & Compliance19 stats

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TLS 1.3 is defined in RFC 8446 and supports modern cipher suites
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OWASP Top 10: Insufficient Logging and Monitoring is included among top risks
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The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was released in 2018 as version 1.1 for improving security posture
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NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 contains 20 security control families and 18? (families) total; the document enumerates controls
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GDPR sets a maximum administrative fine of up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is higher
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US SEC Regulation S-P requires safeguarding customer information and sets incident response rules
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The Digital Services Act (DSA) applies to very large online platforms and imposes compliance obligations; fines can reach 6% of annual turnover
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CISA’s Binding Operational Directive (BOD) for certain agencies requires timely patching; known timelines vary by directive
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OWASP ASVS defines verification requirements and uses a level structure (L1-L3)
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The CVE program recorded over 200k distinct CVE identifiers since inception (historical totals)
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NIST SP 800-63B defines authentication assurance levels with numeric levels 1–3 for some contexts
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FIDO2 is based on WebAuthn; WebAuthn standard supports multi-factor without shared secrets
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CSP report-only mode allows monitoring violations without enforcement; W3C spec includes directives
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HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) is specified with a max-age directive; recommended max-age values are often 1 year or more
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SameSite cookie attribute supports Strict and Lax to mitigate CSRF; defined by RFC 6265bis
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ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) includes 400+ rules (public project)
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OWASP recommends secure session management; session timeout policies are included in OWASP Cheat Sheet series (e.g., Session Management)
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W3C Web Performance Working Group defines loading performance metrics underpinning web vitals measurements
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The W3C recommends using Subresource Integrity (SRI) to ensure third-party scripts aren’t tampered with
Interpretation

Security & Compliance Interpretation

Across Security & Compliance, the recurring theme is that modern protections must be actively enforced and monitored, as shown by the 200k plus CVE identifiers tracked over time alongside frameworks like NIST CSF 1.1 and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 with its 20 control families and GDPR penalties up to 4% of global turnover.

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Cost Analysis12 stats

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S3 transfer pricing can materially affect web cost at scale; typical pricing is $0.023per GB-month (region varies)
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CloudFront data transfer pricing varies by region; typical US price tiers apply to GB
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Fastly charges per request and data transfer; request pricing tiers apply at scale
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Google Cloud Load Balancing egress costs apply per GB delivered (network pricing)
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Azure CDN pricing is metered by bandwidth (GB) and requests
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Web application firewall (WAF) services commonly price per request; AWS WAF charges per web ACL rule and per request (depending on model)
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DDoS protection often priced by protected bandwidth; AWS Shield Standard has no additional charge (baseline)
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If 10% of traffic is redirected to higher cache hit, bandwidth charges can drop proportionally (CDN billing proportional to egress)
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Using HTTP keep-alive reduces connection overhead; can reduce CPU and cost on busy servers
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CDN and edge compute can offload origin work, reducing origin compute spend
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Content compression reduces egress charges by reducing transferred bytes (cloud networking pricing is per GB)
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Reducing page weight by 100 KB can save megabytes at scale; savings scale linearly with page views (CDN egress is per GB)
Interpretation

Cost Analysis Interpretation

For cost analysis, small per unit CDN and transfer pricing differences compound fast at scale since typical S3 transfer pricing is about $0.023 per GB-month and even a 10% traffic shift to higher cache hit can cut bandwidth charges proportionally.
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Sources & references

58 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level

gs.statcounter.comthinkwithgoogle.comdeveloper.chrome.comweb.devcloudflare.comrfc-editor.orgdevelopers.google.comw3techs.comoptimizesmart.comhttparchive.orgaws.amazon.comfastly.comcloud.google.comazure.microsoft.comdocs.aws.amazon.comowasp.orgnist.govcsrc.nist.goveur-lex.europa.euecfr.govcisa.govcve.mitre.orgpages.nist.govw3.orgdatatracker.ietf.orggithub.comcheatsheetseries.owasp.orggartner.comtc39.es

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