The State of Web Vitals

CMS

The CMS the site is built on, as a per-site dimension.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites Q2 2026 edition · Phone field outcomes
Metric LCP INP CLS
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At a glance the headline numbers for CMS

The CMS the site is built on, as a per-site dimension.

12
Categories
80,280 sites
73.5%
Top share
wordpress
96ms
Top INP
Median for wordpress

WordPress powers 73.5% of the sites we measured.

The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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CMS who uses what, and how fast each group loads

Median INP
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100ms
200ms
300ms
400ms
500ms
wix79ms7% of sites
ghost83ms0% of sites
squarespace87ms3% of sites
joomla88ms3% of sites
typo393ms0% of sites
wordpress96ms74% of sites
drupal100ms4% of sites
shopify111ms10% of sites
adobe_commerce112ms1% of sites
VariantShare of sitesMedian
wix 5,211 sites
7%
79ms
ghost 37 sites
0%
83ms
squarespace 2,027 sites
3%
87ms
joomla 2,325 sites
3%
88ms
typo3 95 sites
0%
93ms
wordpress 58,969 sites
74%
96ms
drupal 2,984 sites
4%
100ms
shopify 7,614 sites
10%
111ms
adobe_commerce 987 sites
1%
112ms

Little daylight between the groups: every variant sits near 79ms median INP. computed

The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Passing INP per CMS which group passes the INP most often

VariantSitesPassing INPINP
Squarespace 2.5% 2,027 99% 87ms
Wordpress 73.5% 58,969 97% 96ms
Wix 6.5% 5,211 96% 79ms
Adobe commerce 1.2% 987 95% 112ms
Joomla 2.9% 2,325 95% 88ms
Drupal 3.7% 2,984 94% 100ms
Shopify 9.5% 7,614 94% 111ms
Ghost 0% 37 92% 83ms
Typo3 0.1% 95 88% 93ms
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good INP (200ms at p75) · one value per site

99% of Squarespace sites pass INP. Shopify trails 5 points behind. computed

The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Why this matters for the Core Web Vitals, and where to start fixing it

The CMS decides your defaults: the theme's markup, the plugin economy, how images are sized, what loads in the head. Most sites never change those defaults, so the platform's choices become the platform's vitals.

No platform is doomed and none is safe. The spread inside a platform is bigger than the gap between platforms: a tuned site on a slow-median CMS beats a neglected site on a fast one. The platform pages rank them on real field data.

How does this affect the Core Web Vitals?

CMS correlates with the INP. With Squarespace, 99% of sites pass the INP. With Drupal, 94% do. The causal link is weak: the choice mostly marks what kind of site made it.

The split is bigger on LCP. With Shopify, 95% of sites pass it. With WordPress, 70% do.

Go fix it CMS standings → WordPress Core Web Vitals guide → Shopify Core Web Vitals guide →
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