Core Web Vitals and CMS: which platform has the best performance?
Continues our approach toward May and the debut of the Page Experience Update, with our insights on best practices to prepare the site for the new algorithmic update of Google that will take into account for ranking also the technical requirements that influence and determine the user experience on our pages. Today we focus on the role of CMS, the Content Management System platform, which can have a specific weight in simplifying (or complicating) the achievement of the parameters provided by Google.
The relationship between CMS and Core Web Vitals
To shed light on the impact that a CMS can have on Core Web Vitals is an interesting study signed by HTTP Archive, which generally analyzes the spread of content management platforms and their main features, identifying also the strengths and critical points compared to the 3 essential web signals identified by Google.
In detail, the report has compared the real world performance and statistics of 5 different CMS – WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Squarespace and Wix, which are the most popular worldwide – to find out which recorded the best Core Web Vitals scores, revealing quite mixed results, as also noted by Roger Montti