Law firm website statistics

Every number here was measured, not surveyed: one HTTPS request per homepage across 32 large US law firms (38 sampled; 6 excluded for blocking automated requests), no JavaScript executed.

Rev A — 2026-07-20n = 32dataset (JSON)

The numbers

measured 2026-07-20

261 msmedian server response

Half of the 32 measured homepages return their first byte within this time; the slowest takes 1347 ms.

113 KBmedian HTML delivered

Size of the delivered document before any subresource loads. 29 of 32 serve it compressed.

91%ship a known tracker

29 of 32 homepages reference a recognised analytics or advertising tracker in the delivered HTML.

7median third-party domains

The median homepage references this many distinct external domains before any interaction.

63%surface a consent mechanism

Only 20 of 32 expose a detectable consent platform — yet 20 set a cookie before any choice is possible.

81%expose a main landmark

26 of 32 provide a main landmark for assistive technology; 8 ship no first-level heading at all.

Compared with healthcare

identical method

Share of homepages referencing a recognised analytics or advertising tracker in the delivered document.

Healthcaren = 2948%

Legaln = 3291%

DTC ecommercen = 2186%

Healthcare holds the best posture here — 48% against 91% and 86%.

Lower is better · all sectors measured with the same script and method · 2026-07-20

Switch metrics — the sector that leads on speed and leanness does not lead on every dimension.

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Median TTFB261 ms

On HTTP/2 or /332/32

Compressed29/32

01Gibson Dunn100/100TTFB92 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
02Davis Polk99/100TTFB120 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
03Foley & Lardner99/100TTFB116 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
04Morgan Lewis98/100TTFB146 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
05King & Spalding97/100TTFB172 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
06Debevoise97/100TTFB173 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
07Skadden96/100TTFB188 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
08Kirkland & Ellis96/100TTFB190 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
09WilmerHale96/100TTFB184 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
10Covington96/100TTFB193 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
11Sidley Austin94/100TTFB244 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
12Mayer Brown94/100TTFB246 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
13Simpson Thacher94/100TTFB228 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
14Goodwin93/100TTFB255 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
15Orrick93/100TTFB256 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
16Baker McKenzie92/100TTFB271 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
17Jones Day92/100TTFB283 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
18Morrison Foerster91/100TTFB297 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
19Winston & Strawn91/100TTFB298 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
20Weil Gotshal88/100TTFB375 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
21A&O Shearman88/100TTFB369 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
22Hogan Lovells87/100TTFB401 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
23Cravath86/100TTFB413 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
24Milbank86/100TTFB413 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
25Sullivan & Cromwell83/100TTFB475 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
26Cooley81/100TTFB526 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
27Latham & Watkins75/100TTFB673 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
28Cleary Gottlieb73/100TTFB266 msHTTP/2gzip/brno
29Paul Weiss73/100TTFB251 msHTTP/2gzip/brno
30Norton Rose Fulbright60/100TTFB1343 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
31Perkins Coie60/100TTFB1347 msHTTP/2gzip/bryes
32McDermott Will & Emery44/100TTFB578 msHTTP/2gzip/brno

32 of 38 US law firms (large-firm segment) homepages · measured 2026-07-20 · score = transparent composite of the raw signals in each row

Every statistic above is recomputable from this table.

Excluded from the sample

6 of 38

These firms returned an error to an automated request. They are named rather than silently dropped, because an unreported exclusion is a quiet form of selection bias.

DLA Piper — HTTP 429 (automated request blocked)White & Case — HTTP 403 (automated request blocked)Wachtell Lipton — HTTP 403 (automated request blocked)Ropes & Gray — HTTP 403 (automated request blocked)Akin — HTTP 403 (automated request blocked)Fenwick — HTTP 403 (automated request blocked)

Revision history

Rev A — initial measurement · 32 firms2026-07-20

Re-measured on a rolling schedule; every revision is recorded here and on the site-wide revision log.