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).

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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.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 3,818 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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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%.

SitesGood, needs improvement, poor INPMedian
All Shopify sites3,81899%61ms
Under 10% third-party requests 51.9%1,490100%50ms
10% to 25% third-party requests 43.7%2,08799%65ms
25% to 50% third-party requests 3.7%21799%78ms
Over 50% third-party requests 0.6%2490%84ms
GoodNeeds improvementPoorSites: with Chrome field data
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 3,818 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Third-party request share usage

Under 10% third-party requests is the most used: 51.9% of Shopify sites.

Under 10% third-party requests 51.9% 10% to 25% third-party requests 43.7%
Under 10% third-party requests 51.9% 10% to 25% third-party requests 43.7% 25% to 50% third-party requests 3.7% Over 50% third-party requests 0.6%
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 3,818 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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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.

FrameworkThird-party request share on its sitesGood INP
All Shopify sites 8,246 sitesUnder 10% third-party requests 52%10% to 25% third-party requests 44%99%
Vue 933 sites10% to 25% third-party requests 65%Under 10% third-party requests 27%100%
jQuery 3,153 sites10% to 25% third-party requests 53%Under 10% third-party requests 40%99%
Under 10% third-party requests 10% to 25% third-party requests 25% to 50% third-party requests Over 50% third-party requests
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 3,818 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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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.

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).

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 3,818 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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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).

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify: 8,246 crawled sites · 3,818 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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