The State of Web Vitals

LCP priority hints on Wix sites

The strongest priority signal on the LCP element: preload, fetchpriority, preconnect, or none.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites October 2026 edition · Phone field outcomes · Wix sites only
Wix Scoped to 5,623 sites out of 203,892 analyzed (cms) Compare with all sites →

Half of Wix sites, 49.4%, have no LCP priority hints. Of the 50.6% that do, 100% use fetchpriority="high", and 94% of those sites have a good LCP, against 94% of all Wix sites.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP pass rate

Sites with fetchpriority="high" LCP priority hints have a good LCP most often: 94%, against 94% of all Wix sites.

SitesGood, needs improvement, poor LCPMedian
All Wix sites3,07794%1.1s
fetchpriority="high" 50.6%1,56394%1.2s
No priority hint 49.4%1,49394%1.1s
GoodNeeds improvementPoorSites: with Chrome field data
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP priority hints usage

Half of Wix sites use LCP priority hints, and 100% of those use fetchpriority="high".

Wix sites with LCP priority hints 5,589 sites
No priority hint 49.4% LCP priority hints 50.6%
Sites with LCP priority hints 2,829 sites
fetchpriority="high" 100.0%
fetchpriority="high" 100.0%
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Where priority hints save time: the four LCP phases

Across the four LCP sub-parts in Chrome's field data, the largest gap between fetchpriority="high" and no sits in resource load delay: 452 ms median for fetchpriority="high" against 439 ms for no. Overall median field LCP is 1.1s for fetchpriority="high" (TTFB 405 ms, load delay 452 ms, load duration 113 ms, render delay 151 ms) versus 1.1s for no.

Median LCP phase breakdown (Chrome field p75) Load delay Median LCP
Wix sites with LCP priority hints 2,334404 ms447 ms149 ms447 mslab 455 ms1.1s
No priority hint 1,092404 ms439 ms146 ms439 mslab 448 ms1.1s
fetchpriority="high" 1,242405 ms452 ms151 ms452 mslab 459 ms1.1s
TTFB Resource load delay Resource load time Element render delay
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP priority hints combined with the loading attribute

Combining no with Lazy reaches 94% good LCP across 434 sites (433 ms median load delay). At the other end, no paired with Eager sits at 91% across 158 sites (451 ms median load delay).

Priority hint No loading attribute (auto) loading="lazy" loading="eager"
No priority hint
100% 346 ms delay 33 sites
94% 433 ms delay 789 sites
91% 451 ms delay 285 sites
fetchpriority="high"
94% 448 ms delay 2,745 sites
95% 588 ms delay 84 sites
few sites
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP priority hints per framework

React sets the LCP priority hints to fetchpriority="high" on 51% of its sites, and 94% of React sites have a good LCP, against 94% of all sites.

FrameworkLCP priority hints on its sitesGood LCP
Wix sites with LCP priority hints 5,589 sitesfetchpriority="high" 51%No priority hint 49%94%
React 5,588 sitesfetchpriority="high" 51%No priority hint 49%94%
fetchpriority="high" No priority hint
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP priority hints or the framework

Does the framework explain the LCP priority hints difference?

On React, 94% of sites with fetchpriority="high" LCP priority hints have a good LCP, against 94% of React sites without LCP priority hints. Within React, sites with and without LCP priority hints have a good LCP about equally often.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field data · 5,589 sites with LCP priority hintsBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
Related signals LCP image size → LCP origin → LCP image format → LCP element type → By Arjen Karel · 5,621 crawled Wix sites (3,077 with phone Chrome field data, 5,589 sites with LCP priority hints, October 2026) · How we measured