Independent performance data from 5,894 Australian dental clinic websites, measured with Google Lighthouse. Coverage grows as more clinic websites are measured; per-site measurement dates are not recorded in this dataset yet, so we don't publish a "last measured" date.
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Each clinic is scored 0–100 on mobile performance using Google Lighthouse. Scores under 50 are considered poor, 50–89 needs improvement, and 90+ is fast. Most patients find dental clinics on their phones — a slow site means more visitors give up before booking.
Core Web Vitals are the three metrics Google treats as most important for user experience: LCP (how fast the main content loads), TBT (how responsive the page is to clicks and taps) and CLS (how much the layout shifts around while loading). Each bar plots Google's own good (green), needs-work (amber) and poor (red) thresholds for that metric on a fixed scale - it is not a spread of the measured sites. The marker is the national median, with p90 alongside it so the slow tail is still visible. Best and worst are the extremes measured and can sit far outside the bar's scale.
Technology platform detected across 5,935 clinic websites; a further 23 could not be identified and are not counted either way:
Booking method detected across 5,918 clinic websites; a further 40 could not be determined and are not counted either way — from third-party booking platforms to on-site booking pages, or no online booking at all:
An on-site booking page is a booking page or form hosted on the clinic's own website (rather than a third-party platform like HotDoc or HealthEngine). No online booking means the site only offers a phone number, email address or contact form — patients can't book online.
Of 5,875 clinic websites we could check, 1,907 (32.5%) have a chat widget installed - a further 83 could not be checked and are not counted either way. Most popular platforms:
Each widget a site runs is counted separately, across all 5,875 websites we could check - so a site running two appears under both, and these totals read higher than the comparison table below.
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Sites with a chat widget installed score on average 9.1 points lower on mobile performance than sites without one (50.5 vs 59.6).
These per-platform rows cover only the sites that also have a mobile performance score, and count each site's recorded platform exactly as stored (a site running two is not split) - so they read lower than the popularity list above.
| Group | Sites | Avg perf | Avg LCP | Avg TBT |
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| No chat widget | 3,949 | 59.6 | 9.93s | 336ms |
| With chat widget | 1,900 | 50.5 | 11.54s | 731ms |
| Birdeye | 300 | 48.9 | — | —ms |
| Podium | 175 | 51.7 | — | —ms |
| HubSpot (chat) | 169 | 48.8 | — | —ms |
| Facebook Messenger | 158 | 53.8 | — | —ms |
| Embed (bzr.openai.com + not chat) | 104 | 21.4 | — | —ms |
| Elfsight | 103 | 52.8 | — | —ms |
| Sprinklr | 87 | 26 | — | —ms |
| Chat launcher (unidentified) | 83 | 59.9 | — | —ms |
Per-platform figures are based on small samples and reflect correlation, not causation — chat widgets are more common on busier, marketing-heavy websites. WhatsApp text links are not counted as widgets, and clinics whose widget status we could not establish are left out of both groups.
Site counts reflect how many clinics have been measured in each state so far — they track directory coverage, not the true number of clinics in the state. States where collection is further along (like NSW and QLD) naturally show higher counts.
| State | Sites measured | Avg performance |
|---|---|---|
| NSW | 1,890 | 56.3 |
| VIC | 1,444 | 55.7 |
| QLD | 1,164 | 57.1 |
| WA | 694 | 57.1 |
| SA | 493 | 58.7 |
| TAS | 98 | 63.3 |
| ACT | 77 | 58.6 |
| NT | 29 | 59.4 |
| 1 | 60 |
More states are added as data collection expands.
The fastest-scoring dental websites we have measured AND verified as live, working sites:
These rankings come from a separate verified set of 32 individually re-measured sites - not from the wider dataset behind the figures above. A clinic that is absent here has simply not been re-measured and verified yet.
Scores are from Google Lighthouse measurements on 14 September 2026. Sites that share the same rounded score are shown as one expandable group, ordered by fastest average LCP, because the difference between individual runs is within measurement noise.
Broken, parked and placeholder pages are excluded. An empty page would otherwise score perfectly, which is how a "coming soon" placeholder can outrank a real practice.
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1. 100 — 13 sites · avg LCP 0.76s–1.53s · expand to see each site
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2. 99 — 8 sites · avg LCP 0.98s–2.06s · expand to see each site
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3. 98 — 6 sites · avg LCP 1.20s–2.33s · expand to see each site
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4. 97 — 2 sites · avg LCP 2.37s–2.48s · expand to see each site
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5. 96 — 2 sites · avg LCP 1.13s–1.80s · expand to see each site
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6. 95 — 1 site · avg LCP 2.36s · expand to see the site
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Performance data is collected with Google Lighthouse (mobile emulation) for each clinic website in the Local Dentists Australia directory. Scores are 0–100 where 100 is best. Core Web Vitals targets follow Google's official guidance. The dataset grows as more clinic websites are measured; per-site measurement dates are not recorded yet.
The leaderboard ranks each verified clinic website on its mobile Lighthouse performance on 14 September 2026. Sites that share the same rounded score are collapsed into one expandable group rather than being given an artificial order, and the LCP shown is that site's average. A site with no measurement is not ranked, and broken, parked or placeholder pages are excluded.