A comparison of January 2024 core web vitals scores of the top content management systems (CMS) shows that all platforms are improving, with Squarespace, WordPress and Wix showing the strongest year over year rate of growth in improvement when compared to the previous year.
Core Web Vitals is comprised of a suite of metrics that represent how fast a website performs. The Core Web Vitals Technology Report shows real-world performance scores organized by CMS. The scores come from the Chrome UX Report (CrUX) dataset which is a record of actual scores and from the HTTPArchive dataset comprised of lab measurements of the exact same sites in the CrUX dataset. The two dataset scores and measurements are combined to create the Core Web Vitals Technology Report.
This article compares the year over year rate of growth in core web vitals scores of Drupal, Duda, Joomla, Squarespace, Wix and WordPress for the months of January 2024 and 2023.
All performance scores discussed in this article are from measurements of websites visited with mobile devices.
The growth rate of the improvements between two years is a percentage of the increase between two values representing the 2023 and 2024 scores and were calculated with ChatGPT and double-checked with Google Gemini.
The growth rate percentages differ from the absolute differences in rates (which is the difference between the two years in actual number of percentage points).
The growth rate formula is expressed like this:
YoY Growth Rates Of Improvement
The year over year (YoY) improvement scores shows how fast each CMS is improving.
1. Squarespace
The rate of growth increase from 2023 (34.7%) to 2024 (54% ) is a whopping 55.62%.