Shopify third-party request share and the Core Web Vitals
51.9% of audited sites (4,282) keep third-party requests under 10% of total network traffic (100% good INP, 50ms median), while 3.7% have 25% to 50% third-party requests (99% good INP, 78ms median).
51.9% of Shopify sites use under 10% third-party requests third-party request share, and 100% of those sites have a good INP, against 99% of all Shopify sites.
51.9% of Shopify sites use under 10% third-party requests third-party request share, and 98% of those sites have a good LCP, against 97% of all Shopify sites.
Core Web Vitals pass rate
Sites with under 10% third-party requests third-party request share have a good INP most often: 100%, against 99% of all Shopify sites. Sites with 25% to 50% third-party requests third-party share have it least often, at 99%.
Sites with under 10% third-party requests third-party request share have a good LCP most often: 98%, against 97% of all Shopify sites. Sites with 25% to 50% third-party requests third-party share have it least often, at 92%.
Third-party request share usage
Under 10% third-party requests is the most used: 51.9% of Shopify sites.
Third-party request share per framework
On jQuery, 53% of sites use 10% to 25% third-party requests third-party request share, and 99% of jQuery sites have a good INP, against 99% of all sites. On Vue, 65% of sites use 10% to 25% third-party requests, and 100% of Vue sites have a good INP.
On jQuery, 53% of sites use 10% to 25% third-party requests third-party request share, and 95% of jQuery sites have a good LCP, against 97% of all sites. On Vue, 65% of sites use 10% to 25% third-party requests, and 97% of Vue sites have a good LCP.
Third-party request share or the framework
Does the framework explain the third-party request share difference?
On jQuery, 99% of sites with under 10% third-party requests third-party request share have a good INP, against 99% of jQuery sites with 10% to 25% third-party requests. Within jQuery, sites with under 10% third-party requests and 10% to 25% third-party requests have a good INP about equally often. On Vue, 100% of sites with under 10% third-party requests third-party request share have a good INP, against 99% of Vue sites with 10% to 25% third-party requests. Within Vue, sites with under 10% third-party requests and 10% to 25% third-party requests have a good INP about equally often.
On jQuery, 98% of sites with under 10% third-party requests third-party request share have a good LCP, against 95% of jQuery sites with 10% to 25% third-party requests. Within jQuery, sites with under 10% third-party requests have a good LCP more often. On Vue, 99% of sites with under 10% third-party requests third-party request share have a good LCP, against 97% of Vue sites with 10% to 25% third-party requests. Within Vue, sites with under 10% third-party requests and 10% to 25% third-party requests have a good LCP about equally often.
How external request share shapes main-thread contention and INP
Third-party request share measures the fraction of page requests served from external origins. Across 4,282 sites (51.9%) keeping third-party traffic under 10% and 3,607 sites (43.7%) between 10% and 25%, good INP reaches 100% and 99% (50ms and 65ms median). When third parties account for 25% to 50% of requests (3.7%), good INP drops to 99% (78ms median), while the 0.6% over 50% sit at 90% good INP (84ms median).
Understanding third-party request share
Keep third-party requests under 25% of total page traffic by self-hosting fonts and media on your primary CDN and consolidating tag-manager pixels into server-side endpoints. Across all audited sites, 51.9% stay under 10% third-party requests (100% good INP) and 3.7% sit at 25% to 50% (99% good INP).
By Arjen Karel · 8,246 crawled Shopify sites (3,818 with desktop Chrome field data, October 2026). How we measured.