# How big is the landing-page benchmark I'm reading these stats against?

Source: Lazyweb Research
Published: 2026-07-07
Sample size: n=1238
Tags: landing-page, web, saas, experiments, ux-patterns
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**Answer.** The web landing census covers 1,238 desktop landing pages across 347 companies (about 3.6 captures per company), making landing the 5th most common of 15 web screen types.[1][2] Hero and CTA patterns draw from a separate corpus of 488 hero and 232 CTA detected experiments.[3] Knowing the denominator keeps every downstream stat honest.

> 1,238 landing pages across 347 companies, plus 488 hero + 232 CTA experiments — July 2026.

## Finding: two corpora, never mixed

The benchmark has two distinct sources.[1][3]

| Corpus | Size | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Web landing census | 1,238 pages / 347 companies | Which pages are labeled 'landing' |
| Detected hero experiments | 488 (405 named / 172 companies) | Before/after hero UI diffs |
| Detected CTA experiments | 232 (225 named / 118 companies) | Before/after CTA UI diffs |

The census tells you scale; the experiment corpus tells you what changed. They do not share a join, so per-page hero anatomy is not computable from the census.

## Breakdown: where landing sits among screen types

Landing is the 5th most common of 15 web screen types.[2]

| Screen type | Pages |
|---|---|
| editor | 2,119 |
| inbox | 1,455 |
| settings | 1,351 |
| feed | 1,252 |
| landing | 1,238 |

Landing pages are captured at meaningful density — enough to rank company-level category cuts where sample allows.

## How to apply

When a stat cites '488 hero experiments,' it is describing tested changes, not all 1,238 landing pages. When a stat cites the 1,238-page census, it describes labeled pages, not measured conversion. Keep the two straight and you will read every benchmark on this topic correctly.

## The numbers

| Stat | Computed from |
| --- | --- |
| 1,238 landing pages across 347 companies (avg 3.6 captures/company) | landing_labels_total / landing_companies_total |
| Landing ranks 5th of 15 web screen types (editor 2,119, inbox 1,455, settings 1,351, feed 1,252, landing 1,238) | landing_rank_among_web_screens |
| 488 hero experiments (405 named / 172 companies); 232 CTA experiments (225 named / 118 companies) | hero_experiments_total / hero_experiments_named_companies / cta_experiments_total / cta_experiments_named_companies |

## Methodology

Universe: 1,238 web landing pages (347 companies) plus 488 hero / 232 CTA detected experiments, July 2026. Method: label counts and annotation counts across two non-joinable corpora. Caveat: census and experiment corpora are never mixed; per-page hero anatomy is not computable.

## Sources & citations

- [1] Lazyweb Research analysis of 1,238 landing pages (web landing census, 347 companies), July 2026. screen_type='landing' in sites_screen_labels; 1,238 of 11,753 labeled web screens.
- [2] Lazyweb Research analysis of 11,753 labeled web screens (web screen census), July 2026. Screen-type counts; landing ranks 5th of 15.
- [3] Lazyweb Research analysis of 720 hero+CTA experiments (detected-experiment corpus), July 2026. 488 hero and 232 CTA annotations; named-company resolution via control_screenshot_id.

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