The State of Web Vitals

Cacheable responses

The share of responses that carry cacheable headers.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites Q1 2026 edition · Phone field outcomes
Metric LCP INP CLS
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At a glance the headline numbers for Cacheable responses

The share of responses that carry cacheable headers.

66.5%
on the typical site
half of sites sit at or below
84.5%
1 in 4 sites exceed this
the top quarter
98.1%
the heaviest 1%
the long tail
94,910
sites measured
phone field data

66.5% of responses on the typical site are cacheable.

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Distribution & median CLS site count and median CLS at each level of cacheable responses

0.00 0.04 0.08 0.11 0.15
0.1
0 9261 18521
0 0–10 10–20 20–30 30–40 40–50 50–60 60–70 70–80 80–90 90–100 100
Good (≤0.1) Needs improvement Poor (>0.25) Site count
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Passing CLS by cacheable responses which level passes the CLS most often

Cacheable responsesSitesPassing CLSCLS
0 9,115 92% 0.00
0–10 10,556 89% 0.00
10–20 8,437 88% 0.00
20–30 4,946 88% 0.00
30–40 3,352 88% 0.00
40–50 2,809 85% 0.00
50–60 4,223 86% 0.00
60–70 7,001 86% 0.00
70–80 12,116 88% 0.00
80–90 18,521 91% 0.00
90–100 13,483 91% 0.00
100 351 96% 0.00
Good Needs Improvement Poor Faded rows: under 100 sites

Cacheable responses 66.5%. p75 84.5%. p99 98.1%. At the low end (0): CLS 0.00. At the high end (100): CLS 0.00. computed

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Why this matters for the Core Web Vitals, and where to start fixing it

This is the share of responses a browser is allowed to keep. Everything outside that share gets re-downloaded on the next visit. Repeat visitors are in your field data too, and for them cacheability is the difference between reading from disk and crossing the network.

Uncacheable static assets are almost always an accident: a missing header on a font, a no-cache default on an image bucket. If a file has a hash in its name, there is no reason it should ever be fetched twice.

How does caching affect the Core Web Vitals?

Cacheable share correlates with the LCP. Where the cacheable share is low, 84% of sites pass the LCP. Where it is high, 96% do. The rise is gradual.

Go fix it TTFB: cache duration → Configure Cloudflare for passing the Core Web Vitals →
Related signals HTML compression → Cache strategy mix → HTTP protocol mix → HTTP protocol → Chrome field data from 94,910 sites, representing millions of real page loads · How we measured