State of Small Business Websites (2026 Study). 96.9% Fail Core Web Vitals.

Every performance article on Dev.to quotes the same two stats. You know them. Amazon. Walmart. The 100ms one. Everyone has seen them. Nobody measures what their own prospect list looks like. We did. 292 real B2B websites ran through a headless Chromium audit in April 2026. The results are not academic. 96.9% fail at least one Core Web Vital on mobile. Only 3.1% pass all three. 100% of 191 sites with valid accessibility data failed the axe-core Link Labels rule. The full dataset is open. The meth