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  1. dealerdata1

    Core Web Vitals Rankings - I spent way too much time on this to rank 1300 websites

    I'll be nice and give the TLDR version at the top here so here it goes Built a tool that runs the Google Lighthouse API every day, got a lot of data over two years, now making the data available to everyone Dealership Website Performance Monitor | Dealer Data One Ok story time and background...
  2. douglaskarr

    2026 Mobile Pagespeed Study is out for Auto Dealership Websites

    The data is clear: Your mobile website speed directly impacts your dealership's bottom line. It's something that we've heard legacy platforms and third-party add-ons debate. We proved them wrong. We built an Auto Dealer Search Intelligence Platform which captures local SERP results across metro...
  3. douglaskarr

    The Chatbot "Performance Tax": Which Vendors Aren’t Ruining Our CWV?

    Our platform passes Core Web Vitals (CWV) out of the gate on both mobile and desktop. However, we’re seeing third-party chatbots wipe out those scores instantly. I recently audited a bot with a CSS file larger than our entire site's CSS, zero image compression, and massive CLS issues that led to...