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Primary research

The Independent Agency Response Time Report

I wanted to know how fast insurance agencies actually respond to a warm inbound lead, so I tested it myself. I submitted real quote requests to 94 independent US agencies during business hours and timed every single response.

94 agencies · February–April 2026 · United States

What's inside

  • How many of the 94 agencies never responded at all, and how many answered fast enough to actually compete.

  • The real response times: average, median, and the full spread from minutes to days.

  • How agencies respond: phone, email, or SMS, and how that has shifted since 2020.

  • The full method, so you can judge the data yourself. Nothing cherry-picked.

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