HTTP Archive has recently rolled out the latest rankings for the top content management systems (CMS). The review of the rankings of the six most popular CMS revealed that the top-performing CMS outstrips its competitors by considerable margins. Let’s begin by understanding how core web vitals CMS rankings are decided.

HTTPArchive basically makes use of two datasets to determine the core web vital rankings of different content management systems.HTTPArchive uses the following two datasets:

  • CRuX Dataset: It comes from real website visits by actual individuals who have anonymously allowed core web vital data to be gathered from the sites they visit.

 

  • Lab Dataset: It comes from a crawler that gathers data from countless websites. The lab data simulates mobile connectivity and mobile device to determine the ranking scores.

#1 Duda

Duda is a professional website builder that enables users to get their business online fast without worrying about the underlying technology.

The Duda’s prime objective is to allow users to concentrate solely on their business while it handles the technology aspect. Other web building platforms like Squarespace and Wix follow the same approach. However, out of Duda, Wix and Squarespace, Duda is ahead of the rest two.

According to the last HTTPArchive’s technology report data, Duda was ahead of all by a remarkable margin. The trend is still continuing with the publication of the most recent performance data in February 2022. The report shows that around 77% of websites, created using Duda, have a great core web vital performance. The percentage of high-performing websites was 69.3% in October 2021.

The performance benchmark of Duda’s websites has increased by 8%. Here is a comparison of the core web vitals scores of these three SaaS website builders:

  • Duda 77.3%
  • Wix 54.0%
  • Squarespace 42.8%

As you can see, Duda is not only ahead of the remaining two, but it is also outstripping them by wide margins. Wix, which stands at the second position on the list, is lagging behind Duda by a margin of more than 23% points.

However, this shouldn’t be surprising since according to Duda, website performance is something that matters most to the web builder. They follow a data-driven approach to discover areas that need improvements and accordingly, roll out updates to their customer websites so that they can enjoy faster websites and better overall performance.

 

#2 Drupal

The open-source CMS Drupal holds the second spot on the list of core web vitals winners that was earlier held by Wix. The last survey found that just over 50% of Drupal sites had a great core web vitals score. In 2022, Drupal beat Wix with a score of 58.2%, with Wix lagging behind Drupal by a margin of 4% points, at a score of 54%.

 

#3 Wix

This time, instead of registering improved performance, the percentage of Wix sites with passing core web vitals scores actually plummeted. This caused Wix to slip from #2 position to #3 position. The last survey depicted that 55.3% of sites, built with Wix, had a passing core web vitals score. In 2022, Wix’s performance dipped to 54.0%.

 

#4 Squarespace

Squarespace web builder is leaping up, showcasing solid improvement in the performance of its platform, compared to the previous survey.

In the last survey, 31.45% of Squarespace websites had passing core web vital scores. This year, around 42% of Squarespace sites secured a passing CVW score.

 

#5 WordPress

WordPress has maintained its#5 position, this year too, while its performance is up from 31% to 37.4%. This remarkable improvement may be the result of the WordPress performance team’spainstaking effort towards ensuring faster WordPress performance.

Lately, the WordPress performance team has rolled out an experimental performance plugin as part of their endeavour to try out performance enhancements prior to including them in the WordPress core.

The upcoming versions of WordPress are anticipated to see some major improvements.

 

#6 Joomla

In the last HTTPArchive results, Joomla didn’t make it into the core web vitals rankings.

In September 2021, Joomla had a core web vitals score of 30.5%. This year, Joomla is just behind WordPress at a score of 35%, with a difference of only two percentage points between the two.

 

To Conclude

Any of these top-ranked content management systems can be an ideal choice to create a business website or eCommerce platform. If you are interested in building a bespoke site, using the most popular CMS above, get in touch with Alchemy Interactive.

Being an award-winning CMS development company in London, Alchemy Interactive can help you create a highly customised, intelligent and scalable CMS website to contribute to the success of your business.