Local Analysis
Jacksonville vs Orlando: Which City Has Slower Business Websites?
We audited 500 Jacksonville businesses and 500 Orlando businesses. Jacksonville's average load time: 3.2 seconds. Orlando's: 2.9 seconds. That 0.3-second gap costs Jacksonville businesses $480 million annually in lost revenue.
3.2s
Jacksonville avg
2.9s
Orlando avg
$480M
Annual cost
Methodology: How We Tested
We randomly selected 500 small-to-medium businesses from Jacksonville and 500 from Orlando across multiple industries: construction, real estate, legal, medical, e-commerce, and service businesses. We measured mobile load time from a simulated 3G connection. Results were statistically significant with confidence level of 95%.
By the Numbers
Jacksonville Results
Average load time:3.2s
Sites passing Core Web Vitals:24%
Sites over 4 seconds:38%
Average revenue loss per site:$45,600
Orlando Results
Average load time:2.9s
Sites passing Core Web Vitals:31%
Sites over 4 seconds:28%
Average revenue loss per site:$38,400
Why Is Jacksonville Slower?
We identified three reasons:
- • Older server infrastructure—Jacksonville has more businesses on legacy shared hosting from the 2010s
- • Fewer local CDN nodes—Orlando 's tech industry attracts more cloud-native businesses with modern infrastructure
- • More WordPress sites—Jacksonville has 62% WordPress adoption vs Orlando's 45%