June 12th 2018

Utility Services is one of the smallest categories in this Mobile Site Speed Benchmark and by itself represents only 1% (64 URLs) of the UK Top 5,000 websites. This category is in the 5th place for average Speed Index out of the 12 categories. 

Sites in this category include: Southern Water, SSE, British Gas, Scottish Power, Shell and Thames Water.

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Average Time for All Metrics in Lifecycle of Loading Time

(First Byte Time – 1.55s; renderStart Time – 3.38s; onContentLoaded Time – 4.06; onLoad Time – 9.16s; visualComplete Time – 8.05s; fullyLoaded Time – 10.90s)

 

With an average Time to First Byte of 1.55(s), Utility Services websites like SSE and British Gas were the slowest, second only to the Banking & Financial sector.

 

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Time to First Byte Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(Time to First Byte:  25% Percentile – 0.68s; Median – 1.39s; 75% Percentile – 1.90s)

 

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renderStart Time Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(renderStart:  25% Percentile – 2.18s; Median – 2.88s; 75% Percentile – 4.23s)

 

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onContentLoaded Time Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(onContentLoaded:  25% Percentile – 2.61s; Median – 3.39s; 75% Percentile – 5.09s)

 

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onLoad Time Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(onLoad:  25% Percentile – 4.24s; Median – 6.71s; 75% Percentile – 9.89s)

 

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visualComplete Time Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(visualComplete:  25% Percentile – 4.50s; Median – 6.50s; 75% Percentile – 10.60s)

 

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fullyLoaded Time Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(fullyLoaded:  25% Percentile – 5.06s; Median – 8.28s; 75% Percentile – 12.00s)

 

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Speed Index Benchmark for Utility Services Category

(Speed Index:  25% Percentile – 2,825; Median – 4,033; 75% Percentile – 5,639)