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WordPress Speed Statistics 2026

How fast WordPress really is, from real-user field data: overall pass rates, how it stacks up against other CMS platforms, which page builders pass most often, and the hosting underneath it. Each stat links to the full study.

Last updated: July 2026, from the May 2026 CrUX release.

The headline numbers

38.4%Share of WordPress sites that pass Core Web Vitals on mobile, versus 44.1% for the rest of the web.Read the study
38.4%Share of WordPress sites that pass Core Web Vitals on mobile, the lowest of any major CMS.Read the study
30.0%Share of Elementor mobile sites that pass Core Web Vitals, the lowest of any major page builder.Read the study
2xPantheon's sites pass Core Web Vitals at 61%, Bluehost's at 30%. Your host can double your odds of passing.Read the study

Charts from the studies

Core Web Vitals pass rate, WordPress vs the rest of the web (mobile)
- Rest of the web44.1%
- WordPress38.4%
Source: PageSpeed Matters, 2.98M WordPress and 6.59M non-WordPress CrUX-covered origins, May 2026. A 5.7-point gap, and all of it is load time. WordPress is behind in exactly one place and ahead in the other two. Read the study: WordPress Core Web Vitals: Only 38% of Sites Pass (2026)
Core Web Vitals pass rate by page builder (mobile)
- Duda60.7%
- Webflow54.4%
- WordPress Site Editor43.8%
- Beaver Builder42.7%
- Block Editor (Gutenberg)41.5%
- SiteOrigin38.6%
- Divi34.5%
- WPBakery32.7%
- Elementor30%
Source: PageSpeed Matters analysis of roughly 2.1 million WordPress origins with CrUX field data, mobile, May 2026. The three most popular third-party builders all pass less often than WordPress's own block editor. Read the study: WordPress Page Builder Speed 2026: Elementor at 30%

WordPress overall

Only 38.4% of WordPress Sites Pass Core Web Vitals.
15.7M origins · CrUX, May 2026
Read the study: WordPress Core Web Vitals: Only 38% of Sites Pass (2026)
WordPress Passes Core Web Vitals Least Often of Any Major CMS at 38.4%.
3.7M websites · CrUX + HTTP Archive, June 2026
Read the study: CMS Core Web Vitals 2026: WordPress Lowest at 38.4%

Page builders & hosting

Elementor Passes Core Web Vitals on Just 30% of Mobile Sites.
2.1M WordPress sites · CrUX + HTTP Archive, May 2026
Read the study: WordPress Page Builder Speed 2026: Elementor at 30%
Pantheon Passes Core Web Vitals Twice as Often as Bluehost.
11M origins, 20 hosts · CrUX, June 2026
Read the study: Web Hosting Speed 2026: 20 Hosts, 11M Sites Ranked

How this is measured

Every figure on this page is first-party. It comes from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) real-user field data via Google BigQuery, latest release May 2026, spanning up to 13.75 million origins. No third-party estimates or recycled statistics.

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WordPress Speed Statistics 2026. PageSpeed Matters. https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/statistics/wordpress

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