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Worst Pages Leaderboard

The Worst Pages Leaderboard gives you a sortable, side-by-side comparison of every tracked URL’s PageSpeed performance score alongside its four most important lab and field metrics — LCP, CLS, INP and TBT — for both mobile and desktop. It is the fastest way to answer “which are my worst-performing pages and exactly which metrics are failing?” without having to open each URL individually in PageSpeed Insights.

Columns explained

  • URL — the tracked page, linked to the live URL.
  • Score (mobile / desktop) — Google’s 0–100 performance score. 90+ = good, 50–89 = needs improvement, <50 = poor. Mobile is the score Google ranks on.
  • LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) — how long until the main content element is rendered. Target: <2.5 s.
  • CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) — measure of visual stability during load. Target: <0.1.
  • INP (Interaction to Next Paint) — responsiveness to user input. Target: <200 ms.
  • TBT (Total Blocking Time) — proxy for INP in lab conditions. Target: <200 ms. High TBT usually traces to excessive JavaScript.

How to read it

  • Click the Score column header (ascending) to put the worst pages at the top.
  • Click any metric column to sort by that specific signal. A page with a great score but terrible LCP suggests the score is being carried by other metrics — dig into the cause.
  • Compare mobile and desktop columns side-by-side. A large gap (mobile much worse) means the responsive variant has a different performance profile from the desktop version. See Mobile Performance Drag for a dedicated view of this gap.
  • Cells are colour-coded: green = good, amber = needs improvement, red = poor — matching Google’s thresholds for each metric.

Metric thresholds reference

Metric Good Needs improvement Poor
LCP <2.5 s 2.5–4 s >4 s
CLS <0.1 0.1–0.25 >0.25
INP <200 ms 200–500 ms >500 ms
TBT <200 ms 200–600 ms >600 ms
Score 90–100 50–89 0–49

What to do with it

  1. Sort by mobile score ascending and pick the top 5 worst pages. These are your immediate sprint candidates.
  2. For each failing page, look at which metric is worst:
    • LCP → image optimisation, render-blocking resources, server response time.
    • CLS → reserve space for images/ads, avoid dynamic content insertion above the fold.
    • INP / TBT → reduce JavaScript execution time, remove heavy third-party scripts.
  3. Open the URL on pagespeed.web.dev for the full per-resource Lighthouse audit.
  4. After fixes, check PSI History to confirm scores improve and the page leaves the leaderboard over the following runs.

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