Core Web Vitals for restaurants and food: 213 domains measured
By Christian Schreiber · Updated
Restaurant websites are opened almost entirely on phones, often on the move and on mobile data. Someone looking for the menu or the opening hours will not wait five seconds.
For Core Web Vitals, food and restaurants ranks 13th of 18 industries, behind energy and utilities, ahead of online retail. All medians stay within Google's thresholds, closest to the limit is LCP at 2279 ms against 2500 ms.
Core Web Vitals in food and restaurants
42 percent of the 213 domains measured in this industry pass all three Core Web Vitals with real user data.
| Metric | Industry median | Middle half of the industry | Google threshold |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2279 ms | 1577 ms – 3201 ms | 2500 ms |
| INP | 163 ms | 120 ms – 232 ms | 200 ms |
| CLS | 0.08 | 0.02 – 0.18 | 0.10 |
Thresholds, sample sizes and anonymisation are explained under Core Web Vitals by industry.
Food and restaurants against every measured domain
| Group | LCP | INP | CLS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and restaurants | 2571 ms | 222 ms | 0.18 |
| PerfDelta average (4189 domains tested) | 1961 ms | 144 ms | 0.04 |
Platforms in food and restaurants
Share passing all three Core Web Vitals, by platform.
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WordPress 72%
46 domains on this platform · median 1840 ms, middle half 1293 ms to 2369 ms
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Next.js 28%
36 domains on this platform · median 2396 ms, middle half 1875 ms to 3151 ms
Three measurements from food and restaurants
Faster quarter, median and slowest quarter, anonymised and rounded.
| Position | LCP | INP | CLS | Mobile score | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best quarter | 1600 ms | 150 ms | 0.03 | 50 | – |
| Typical | 2300 ms | 200 ms | 0.13 | 30 | – |
| Slowest quarter | 3200 ms | 350 ms | 0.55 | 45 | Next.js |
What usually slows food and restaurants down
The usual brakes are full-resolution mood photography and embedded reservation systems. On top of that, many sites publish their menu as a PDF or an image instead of text. Converting the imagery to modern formats and loading the booking widget on demand solves most of the problem.
Which food and restaurants pages to test first
The menu page and the reservation page carry most visits, usually straight from a map listing on a phone. Test those two before the home page. If the menu exists only as a PDF, the speed test cannot see it at all, and visitors on mobile data wait for a download instead of a page.
Which metric is at risk in food and restaurants
LCP is the metric at risk here. The largest element is almost always a full-width photo of a dish or the dining room, and it is often loaded through a slider script instead of a plain image tag. A booking widget in an iframe mainly hurts interaction, because it keeps the main thread busy while the guest tries to tap.
Step-by-step fixes: Website Speed Optimization.
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