How many WordPress.com websites did you analyze?

47 sites using WordPress.com. Each one ran the full diagnostic — PageSpeed, SEO checks, SSL verification, and full tech-stack detection.

Is WordPress.com fast?

WordPress.com sites in our sample average 71/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 9.4s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow WordPress.com sites in every industry we track.

What industries use WordPress.com the most?

WordPress.com is most common in accounting & tax (4 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

How do I know if WordPress.com is right for my website?

Run the free audit on this page. You'll get your own site's performance scored against the WordPress.com benchmark, so you can see whether your current stack is costing you speed or SEO rankings.

PaaS

WordPress.com website performance

Average page takes 9.4s to render its main content — 6.9s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202647 sites analyzed

At a glance

Average scores across 47 WordPress.com sites

Performance

SEO

Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

How WordPress.com sites perform in the real world

Avg. LCP

9.4s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

3.2s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.034

Good: < 0.1

Avg. TTFB

0.0s

Good: < 0.8s

Performance spread

How WordPress.com sites cluster on page speed

PageSpeed scores grouped into Google's tier labels. The shape of the distribution tells you whether the industry average hides a few great outliers — or a long tail of broken sites.

Critical0–49
6.4%
Needs work50–69
42.6%
Decent70–89
38.3%
Good90–100
12.8%

Mixed: sites are spread roughly evenly across the tiers. There's no single bar to clear — whatever you fix, it'll put you ahead of a good chunk of the sample.

Adoption by industry

Where WordPress.com shows up most

Top industries running this stack, based on the diagnostic sample.

Quick wins

The fixes that would move most WordPress.com sites forward

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 47 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

01
177 broken links
Found on 42.6% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
02
Main content takes too long to appear
Found on 36.2% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
03
4 pages share the same title
Found on 23.4% of sitesSEOmedium impact
04
No sitemap found
Found on 12.8% of sitesSEOhigh impact
05
Certificate expires in 24 days
Found on 2.1% of sitesSecuritymedium impact

FAQ

Common questions

How we fix it

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Speed + Core Web Vitals
Image compression, caching, lazy loading, render-blocking cleanup — the fixes the benchmark above flagged.
On-page SEO + structured data
Meta tags, canonicals, schema markup, internal linking — every signal Google's crawler expects, audited and fixed.
Conversion rate + mobile UX
CTAs, forms, microcopy, mobile layout. Turn the traffic you're already getting into leads and customers.

The diagnostic engine is the same one we ship for product and agency clients

Is WordPress.com working for your site?

Email us and we'll run a diagnostic comparing your performance to the WordPress.com sample above. No intake form, results back within a business day.

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