B
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47%
47% -- visitors expecting page load under two seconds for website visitors (2026)
According to Google, 47% of website visitors expect a webpage to load in less than two seconds.
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Value
47%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Google
Primary
Tier C
https://alignmentonline.com/cro-conversion-rate-optimization/page/3/ ↗
Source Article
CRO - Conversion Rate Optimization Services
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Google
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Segmentation
IndustryRetail
RegionGlobal
RoleAll marketers
Channelmulti-channel
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website visitors: 47% visitors expecting page load under two seconds. Source: Google (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/page-load-expectation-2-seconds-47
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/page-load-expectation-2-seconds-47" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>47%</strong> -- visitors expecting page load under two seconds for website visitors<br><small>Source: Google (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/page-load-expectation-2-seconds-47" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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