Website design Katowice.
Surprisingly slow for the region's capital.
Katowice is the largest market I audited: 825 business websites went through the measurement, more than in any other city in the set. The capital of the Silesian voivodeship, company headquarters, office towers around Spodek - and the median load time is 6,1 s, more than double Google's threshold. The competition here is numerous, but not fast.
Against the country as a whole that is 0.1 s better than the national median, calculated from 37,213 sites. Among the 29 towns and counties I measured in the region, Katowice ranks no. 10.
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825
sites measured
That many company domains in Katowice went through PageSpeed Insights. The measurement succeeded on 617 of them.
6.1 s
median load time
Every second site in Katowice takes longer than this. The best result was 0.8 s, the worst 171.4 s.
83.3
% over the threshold
Google treats 2.5 s as the acceptable limit; this share of sites in Katowice is beyond it, 67.1% beyond four seconds.
146
domains not working
So many domains in Katowice never answered during the audit - and the owners usually keep paying without knowing.
Businesses on the register
3,714
That many sole traders are based in Katowice , according to the public register.
Have their own site
21.1%
That is 783 businesses. The other 2,931 have no address of their own on the internet.
What follows from that
The competition is present yet slow. In a market like this the fastest site wins positions that elsewhere have to be bought with ads.
Katowice competes with offices, not websites.
Katowice businesses are largely B2B services: law firms, accountants, agencies and consultants serving companies from the whole metropolitan area. In those trades the client almost always starts with a search engine and compares several offers at once - yet 83,3% of the measured sites miss Google's speed threshold. An address next to Spodek does not help if the page takes six seconds to open.
The second Katowice paradox: of 3,714 registered sole traders, only 21,1% own a domain. In a city that draws clients from Sosnowiec, Chorzów and Tychy, most businesses forfeit them to listing portals. With a fast site of your own, you compete with a handful, not thousands.
825 businesses in Katowice have their own website. In a city where clients search on their phones between meetings, the site that opens instantly wins.
Every number below can be re-checked live: the tool at the top measures any site in Katowice with the same Google API the audit used.
- Katowice - 825 sites6.1 s
- All of Poland - 37,213 sites6.2 s
- Google threshold2.5 s
- What I hand over1.5 s
The most common problems with sites in Katowice. All of them fixable.
In a city where clients search on their phones between meetings, the site that opens instantly wins. Below is what came out specifically in Katowice, split into things that can be fixed without a rebuild.
250
with no SSL certificate
30% of the sites in Katowice lack an SSL certificate - a free thing, without which the browser reports „not secure" to every customer.
Repair from PLN 500 →110
with no mobile version
That is 13% of those measured in Katowice. On a phone you have to pinch to zoom, and Google judges sites by their mobile version.
New site from PLN 2,000 →146
domains with no response
18% of the addresses in Katowice do not respond at all: the domain expired or the hosting died. Some owners keep paying bills for something that is not there.
I will check your domain →146
online stores
That is how many online stores I measured in Katowice. They are the heaviest pages in the set, and in e-commerce load time shows up directly in sales.
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Who has a site in Katowice
Among the 825 businesses measured, these trades lead. Is yours on the list? Then I have seen your competition's sites up close and know what actually brings them clients.
- Law firms162
- Wholesale trade59
- Business consultancy46
- Medical specialists43
I build sites in other places too. And across the country, remotely.
I am based in Nowa Kuźnica near Koziegłowy, so I get to Katowice regularly and can drop in for a coffee. But most projects run remotely anyway - from the measurement to the launch we need not meet even once, if that suits you better.
Do you do business in Katowice? Write, and I reply within two hours.
Give me your website address, or simply write what you do. I will answer concretely: how you compare with 3,714 other businesses in Katowice, what can be improved and what it costs. Free and with no obligation.
Phone
+48 605 941 333E-mail
biuro@luroweb.plAddress
Słoneczna 15, Nowa Kuźnica
42-350 Koziegłowy