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 · Desktop field outcomes · Wix sites only
Wix Scoped to 5,623 sites out of 203,892 analyzed (cms) Compare with all sites →

92.1% of Wix sites use preload hints without preconnect connection and preload hints, and 92% of those sites have a good LCP, against 92% of all Wix sites.

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 728 with desktop 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: 92%, against 92% of all Wix sites.

SitesGood, needs improvement, poor LCPMedian
All Wix sites72892%1.2s
No resource hints 5.1%3494%1.1s
Preload without preconnect 92.1%66492%1.2s
Both preconnect and preload 2.8%3090%1.5s
GoodNeeds improvementPoorSites: with Chrome field data
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 728 with desktop 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: 92.1% of Wix sites.

Preload without preconnect 92.1%
Preload without preconnect 92.1% No resource hints 5.1% Both preconnect and preload 2.8%
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 728 with desktop field dataBy Arjen Karel · corewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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The four LCP phases

Median LCP phase breakdown (Chrome field p75) Load delay Median LCP
All Wix sites 376343 ms478 ms259 ms478 mslab 462 ms1.2s
Preload without preconnect 343349 ms478 ms259 ms478 mslab 462 ms1.2s
TTFB Resource load delay Resource load time Element render delay
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 728 with desktop 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 92% of React sites have a good LCP, against 92% of all sites.

FrameworkConnection and preload hints on its sitesGood LCP
All Wix sites 5,621 sitesPreload without preconnect 92%92%
React 5,620 sitesPreload without preconnect 92%92%
Preload without preconnect No resource hints Both preconnect and preload
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Wix: 5,621 crawled sites · 728 with desktop 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 · 728 with desktop 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 (728 with desktop Chrome field data, October 2026) · How we measured