Session recording impact Shopify sites

Session-recording tools ranked by performance impact.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites October 2026 edition · Desktop field outcomes · Shopify sites only
Metric LCP INP CLS
Shopify Scoped to 8,248 sites out of 203,892 analyzed (cms) Compare with all sites →
1

At a glance the headline numbers for Session recording impact

Session-recording tools ranked by performance impact.

3
Providers ranked
After min-sites filter
1,892
Sites in sample
Combined across all items
0.07
Best CLS (p75)
Microsoft Clarity
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify sites (8,248) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
2

The ranking sorted by CLS at p75, fastest first

# Provider CLS p75 Passing Sites
1 Microsoft Clarity 0.07 82.3%
1,302
2 Contentsquare 0.08 81.8%
93
3 Hotjar 0.09 78.0%
497
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify sites (8,248) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
3

Passing CLS per provider which group passes the CLS most often

ProviderSitesPassing CLSp75
Lucky Orange 0.3% 26 86% 0.04
PostHog Replay 0.3% 25 83% 0.07
Smartlook 0.1% 12 83% 0.06
Microsoft Clarity 15.8% 1,302 82% 0.07
Contentsquare 1.1% 93 82% 0.08
Hotjar 6% 497 78% 0.09
Crazy Egg 0.2% 18 73% 0.11
Mouseflow 0.4% 30 68% 0.15
Inspectlet 0.1% 7 67% 0.09
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good CLS (0.1 at p75) · one value per site

No provider stands out: pass rates sit between 78% and 82%. computed

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify sites (8,248) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
4

All five vitals at once the whole category without toggling - cell is the pass rate, small number the p75

LCP
INP
CLS
FCP
TTFB
Microsoft Clarity 15.8%
961.8s
9991ms
820.07
951.2s
96484ms
Hotjar 6%
951.8s
9983ms
780.09
961.1s
97483ms
Contentsquare 1.1%
912.0s
9893ms
820.08
911.2s
88516ms
Mouseflow 0.4%
951.8s
100101ms
680.15
1001.2s
100547ms
Lucky Orange 0.3%
861.9s
10079ms
860.04
861.2s
93553ms
PostHog Replay 0.3%
911.9s
100104ms
830.07
961.3s
100580ms
Crazy Egg 0.2%
1002.2s
9381ms
730.11
1001.3s
93486ms
Smartlook 0.1%
1002.0s
10075ms
830.06
831.3s
83418ms
Inspectlet 0.1%
1001.4s
10073ms
670.09
100738ms
100446ms
60%95%+ passing Cell: pass rate, small number = p75 · faded rows: under 100 sites

One row per provider, one column per vital - the cell is the share of sites passing, the small number the p75. No toggling needed to see where the category actually differs.

Microsoft Clarity leads on CLS: 82% of its sites pass. Hotjar trails at 78%. computed

The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · Shopify sites (8,248) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
Related signals Search (6) → JS libraries (26) → Scheduling (3) → Push notifications (5) → 203,892 crawled sites with Chrome field data, representing millions of real page loads · How we measured