Connection and preload hints on Wix sites

dns-prefetch, preconnect and preload links the document declares.

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 →

92.0% of Wix sites use preload hints without preconnect connection and preload hints, and 95% 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 dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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LCP pass rate

Sites with preload hints without preconnect connection and preload hints have a good LCP most often: 95%, against 94% of all Wix sites. Sites with no resource hints connection hints have it least often, at 93%.

SitesGood, needs improvement, poor LCPMedian
All Wix sites3,07794%1.1s
Preconnect without preload 0.1%4100%786ms
Preload without preconnect 92.0%2,84095%1.1s
No resource hints 5.1%14693%1.1s
Both preconnect and preload 2.8%8786%1.3s
GoodNeeds improvementPoorSites: with Chrome field data
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Connection and preload hints usage

Preload hints without preconnect is the most used: 92.0% of Wix sites.

Preload without preconnect 92.0%
Preload without preconnect 92.0% No resource hints 5.1% Both preconnect and preload 2.8% Preconnect without preload 0.1%
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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The four LCP phases

Across the four LCP sub-parts in Chrome's field data, the largest gap between preload hints without preconnect and no resource hints sits in time to first byte (TTFB): 406 ms median for preload hints without preconnect against 343 ms for no resource hints. Overall median field LCP is 1.1s for preload hints without preconnect (TTFB 406 ms, load delay 445 ms, load duration 110 ms, render delay 149 ms) versus 1.1s for no resource hints.

Median LCP phase breakdown (Chrome field p75) Load delay Median LCP
All Wix sites 2,353404 ms446 ms150 ms446 mslab 453 ms1.1s
Preload without preconnect 2,174406 ms445 ms149 ms445 mslab 452 ms1.1s
Both preconnect and preload 65494 ms474 ms168 ms474 mslab 471 ms1.3s
No resource hints 110343 ms480 ms154 ms480 mslab 493 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 dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Connection and preload hints per framework

React sets the connection and preload hints to preload hints without preconnect on 92% of its sites, and 94% of React sites have a good LCP, against 94% of all sites.

FrameworkConnection and preload hints on its sitesGood LCP
All Wix sites 5,621 sitesPreload without preconnect 92%94%
React 5,620 sitesPreload without preconnect 92%94%
Preload without preconnect No resource hints Both preconnect and preload Preconnect without preload
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Connection and preload hints or the framework

Does the framework explain the connection and preload hints difference?

Almost every site with preload hints without preconnect connection and preload hints is a React site, and almost every React site has preload hints without preconnect connection and preload hints, so the data can't tell preload hints without preconnect connection and preload hints and React apart.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 3,077 with phone field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
Related signals Cacheable responses → Last-Modified present → Requests via CDN → HTML size (kB) → By Arjen Karel · 5,621 crawled Wix sites (3,077 with phone Chrome field data, October 2026) · How we measured