Article Schema Authors: 1 in 4 Article Pages Name No Real Person

    Of 80,353 top-1M pages marked up as an Article, NewsArticle or BlogPosting, 24.9% don't name a real person as the author.

    Article pages whose schema author is not a real person, by platform
    WordPress14.3%
    Shopify19.9%
    Wix, Squarespace or Webflow24.8%
    Other or custom41.5%

    Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive Sept 2026 mobile crawl, 80,353 top-1M pages with Article-type JSON-LD.

    Wix, Squarespace or Webflow covers only 298 pages, so read that bar with care.

    Source: Article Schema Authors: 1 in 4 Article Pages Name No Real Person - PageSpeed Matters