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title: "Article Schema Authors: 1 in 4 Article Pages Name No Real Person - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/article-schema-authors
description: "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."
lang: en
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Article Schema Authors: 1 in 4 Article Pages Name No Real Person (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/article-schema-authors)

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

WordPress 14.3%

Shopify 19.9%

Wix, Squarespace or Webflow 24.8%

Other or custom 41.5%

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 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/article-schema-authors)