Healthcare website statistics

Every number on this sheet was measured, not surveyed: one HTTPS request per homepage across 29 US hospital and health systems (35 sampled; 6 excluded for automated-request blocking), no JavaScript executed. Methodology and dataset below.

Rev A — 19 Jul 2026n = 29dataset (JSON)

The numbers

measured Jul 2026
330 msmedian server TTFB

Half the sampled hospital homepages return their first byte within 330 ms; 22 of 29 serve over HTTP/2 or HTTP/3.

97%ship third-party trackers

28 of 29 homepages declare at least one third-party analytics or tracking origin in the delivered HTML.

15median third-party domains

The median homepage references 15 distinct third-party domains before any user interaction.

34%surface any consent signal

Only 10 of 29 homepages expose a detectable cookie-consent mechanism in the delivered document.

69%set cookies before interaction

20 of 29 set at least one cookie in the initial response — before any consent choice is possible.

69%expose a main landmark

20 of 29 provide a main landmark for assistive technology; 6 of 29 ship no first-level heading at all.

Explore every row

live explorer
Median trackers4
≥1 tracker28/29
Any consent signal10/29
  1. 01Northwestern Medicine19/1003rd-party28trackers8pre-cookies2
  2. 02Cleveland Clinic27/1003rd-party23trackers7pre-cookies8
  3. 03Ochsner Health29/1003rd-party23trackers8pre-cookies0
  4. 04Stanford Health Care33/1003rd-party17trackers7pre-cookies4
  5. 05UPMC33/1003rd-party20trackers6pre-cookies9
  6. 06Banner Health37/1003rd-party20trackers5pre-cookies4
  7. 07MD Anderson Cancer Center43/1003rd-party24trackers4pre-cookies0
  8. 08Vanderbilt University Medical Center45/1003rd-party20trackers5pre-cookies0
  9. 09Houston Methodist46/1003rd-party15trackers7pre-cookies4
  10. 10Baptist Health50/1003rd-party14trackers4pre-cookies3
  11. 11Boston Children's Hospital52/1003rd-party17trackers4pre-cookies5
  12. 12Massachusetts General Hospital52/1003rd-party17trackers3pre-cookies2
  13. 13Nationwide Children's Hospital52/1003rd-party11trackers4pre-cookies4
  14. 14UCLA Health53/1003rd-party15trackers4pre-cookies1
  15. 15Tampa General Hospital55/1003rd-party13trackers3pre-cookies3
  16. 16Memorial Sloan Kettering56/1003rd-party19trackers5pre-cookies0
  17. 17NewYork-Presbyterian56/1003rd-party14trackers4pre-cookies0
  18. 18Brigham and Women's Hospital57/1003rd-party13trackers3pre-cookies2
  19. 19Sutter Health58/1003rd-party14trackers3pre-cookies1
  20. 20Advocate Health61/1003rd-party16trackers2pre-cookies0
  21. 21UCSF Health66/1003rd-party14trackers3pre-cookies2
  22. 22NYU Langone Health67/1003rd-party12trackers2pre-cookies0
  23. 23Mass General Brigham68/1003rd-party14trackers3pre-cookies1
  24. 24Duke Health69/1003rd-party12trackers4pre-cookies0
  25. 25Cedars-Sinai71/1003rd-party6trackers2pre-cookies2
  26. 26Rush University Medical Center71/1003rd-party16trackers2pre-cookies0
  27. 27Emory Healthcare73/1003rd-party12trackers2pre-cookies2
  28. 28Intermountain Health79/1003rd-party4trackers1pre-cookies1
  29. 29Penn Medicine86/1003rd-party0trackers0pre-cookies2

29 of 35 US hospitals & health systems homepages · measured 2026-07-19 · score = transparent composite of the raw signals in each row

The statistics above are recomputable from this table — switch dimensions to re-rank the sector.

Revision history

Rev A — initial measurement · 29 sites19 Jul 2026

This sheet is re-measured on a rolling schedule; each revision is recorded here. Full method: the observatory report.