Which website builder makes the fastest sites?
Lovable leads: its sites score 88 out of 100 on Google's mobile speed test. Every day I test the sites I built on each builder I review, the same way Google's PageSpeed Insights does.
- Builders
- 17
- Tests so far
- 96
- Testing since
- 21 October 2026
Figures updated 27 Oct 2026, 21:45 UTC. Medians of the last 7 days.
Builders by page speed
| Builder | Speed score | Main content shows | Layout jumps | Busy time | Page weight | Pass Google's limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | 3.2 s | 0.001 | 0 ms | 876 KB | 0 of 3 sites | |
| 83 | 4.5 s | 0 | 17 ms | 816 KB | 0 of 2 sites | |
| 78 | 4.1 s | 0 | 0 ms | 365 KB | 0 of 2 sites | |
| 78 | 4.5 s | 0 | 0 ms | 511 KB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 78 | 4.0 s | 0 | 4 ms | 456 KB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 78 | 1.1 s | 0.01 | 517 ms | 6.7 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 75 | 6.3 s | 0.002 | 29 ms | 3.1 MB | 0 of 3 sites | |
| 69 | 3.3 s | 0.337 | 37 ms | 368 KB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 68 | 11.8 s | 0.003 | 14 ms | 3.1 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 68 | 5.5 s | 0 | 0 ms | 581 KB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 63 | 9.0 s | 0.001 | 126 ms | 1.4 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 62 | 13.2 s | 0.002 | 57 ms | 2.1 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 57 | 8.8 s | 0 | 35 ms | 1.3 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 53 | 9.6 s | 0.013 | 518 ms | 4.1 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 47 | 17.9 s | 0 | 879 ms | 3.2 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 45 | 8.2 s | 0.312 | 0 ms | 1.2 MB | 0 of 1 sites | |
| 39 | 44.2 s | 0.02 | 653 ms | 8.7 MB | 0 of 1 sites |
Builder
- Speed score
- 88
- Main content shows
- 3.2 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.001
- Busy time
- 0 ms
- Page weight
- 876 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 3 sites
- Speed score
- 83
- Main content shows
- 4.5 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 17 ms
- Page weight
- 816 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 2 sites
- Speed score
- 78
- Main content shows
- 4.1 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 0 ms
- Page weight
- 365 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 2 sites
- Speed score
- 78
- Main content shows
- 4.5 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 0 ms
- Page weight
- 511 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 78
- Main content shows
- 4.0 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 4 ms
- Page weight
- 456 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 78
- Main content shows
- 1.1 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.01
- Busy time
- 517 ms
- Page weight
- 6.7 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 75
- Main content shows
- 6.3 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.002
- Busy time
- 29 ms
- Page weight
- 3.1 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 3 sites
- Speed score
- 69
- Main content shows
- 3.3 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.337
- Busy time
- 37 ms
- Page weight
- 368 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 68
- Main content shows
- 11.8 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.003
- Busy time
- 14 ms
- Page weight
- 3.1 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 68
- Main content shows
- 5.5 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 0 ms
- Page weight
- 581 KB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 63
- Main content shows
- 9.0 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.001
- Busy time
- 126 ms
- Page weight
- 1.4 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 62
- Main content shows
- 13.2 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.002
- Busy time
- 57 ms
- Page weight
- 2.1 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 57
- Main content shows
- 8.8 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 35 ms
- Page weight
- 1.3 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 53
- Main content shows
- 9.6 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.013
- Busy time
- 518 ms
- Page weight
- 4.1 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 47
- Main content shows
- 17.9 s
- Layout jumps
- 0
- Busy time
- 879 ms
- Page weight
- 3.2 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 45
- Main content shows
- 8.2 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.312
- Busy time
- 0 ms
- Page weight
- 1.2 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
- Speed score
- 39
- Main content shows
- 44.2 s
- Layout jumps
- 0.02
- Busy time
- 653 ms
- Page weight
- 8.7 MB
- Pass Google's limits
- 0 of 1 sites
Still being measured: Noloco, Draftbit.
How the test works
Once a day, every site in the test is loaded by Google Lighthouse with its mobile settings: a mid-range phone on a slow 4G connection, the same set-up as PageSpeed Insights. Each builder is judged on the median of its sites over the last 7 days, so one slow day doesn’t decide anything.
The sites are real public sites built and hosted on each builder: cafés, photographers, consultants and small shops. Builders’ own marketing sites are left out, because they aren’t what you get. Once RankDude builds its own test sites in a review, those join the test too.
What the numbers mean
- Speed score
- Lighthouse's overall mobile performance score, 0 to 100.
- Main content shows
- Largest Contentful Paint: how long until the biggest thing on the page, usually the main picture or headline, appears. Google's limit is 2.5 seconds.
- Layout jumps
- Cumulative Layout Shift: how much the page jumps around while loading. Google's limit is 0.1.
- Busy time
- Total Blocking Time: how long the phone is too busy to react to a tap. Under 200 ms is good.
- Page weight
- How much the phone downloads to show the page.
The speed grade in reviews
Each website builder review shows its speed grade from this test, and it updates by itself every day:
- 5: a median mobile score of 85 or more
- 4: 70 to 84
- 3: 50 to 69
- 2: 30 to 49
- 1: below 30
Questions
- Which website builder is fastest?
- Right now Lovable: its sites have a median mobile score of 88 and show their main content in about 3.2 s on a mid-range phone with a slow connection.
- Why are the scores lower than on my own computer?
- Lighthouse's mobile test slows the connection to slow 4G and the processor to a mid-range phone, the same as Google's PageSpeed Insights. That is how many visitors really see a small-business site.
- Whose sites are tested?
- Public sites real people built and host on each builder (cafés, photographers, small shops), and later the test sites RankDude builds in each review. The builders' own marketing sites are not tested, because they are not what you would get.