The State of Web Vitals · CMS

Ghost — Core Web Vitals

Field data PhoneDesktopAll November 2026 edition · Desktop field outcomes
61.5% of Ghost sites pass all three Core Web Vitals
  • #8 of 12 CMSs by overall pass rate
  • Add TTFB and only 58.3% still pass
  • Runs on 0.0% of all sites measured (42 crawled Ghost sites, 22 with desktop field data)

The distribution, not just the median

Each bar is the good / needs-work / poor split for Ghost. The marks where the whole fleet sits, so you can see who is ahead and who is behind.

LCP 1.2s p75
100.0% good ▲ fleet 86.1%
INP 49ms p75
100.0% good ▲ fleet 98.9%
CLS 0.14 p75
59.1% good ▼ fleet 78.0%
TTFB diagnostic 484ms p75
94.4% good ▲ fleet 63.1%
FCP diagnostic 835ms p75
100.0% good ▲ fleet 82.3%
Where Ghost loses ground: CLS — 59.1% of sites pass, against 78.0% across the fleet. The fingerprint below shows which habits move that number.

CMS standings

#1 Wix 88.3% #2 Shopify 82.7% #3 Squarespace 74.8% #4 Drupal 73.0% #5 Joomla 71.2% #6 Typo3 71.1% #7 WordPress 60.2% #8 Adobe Commerce 59.6%
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213,971 crawled sites (70,774 with desktop Chrome field data), representing millions of real page loads, November 2026 edition. How we measured.