Reference entries (18)
- reference Core Web Vitals
- reference Managed WordPress host TTFB benchmarks (HostingStep 2025, 34 hosts, 1,960+ days of 24/7 monitoring)
- reference WordPress CWV gap causal decomposition (May 2026): ~40-50% hosting/TTFB, ~20-30% page builders, ~15-20% plugins, ~5-10% core, ~5-10% theme
- reference Research brief: WordPress + Page Builders vs Modern Custom Stacks — sourced performance comparison (piece 18)
- reference Research brief: Website Performance & Revenue — defensible evidence for KW small-business owners (piece 17)
- reference WordPress median mobile JS payload is 528 KB — smaller than Wix (1,462 KB) and Squarespace (1,314 KB), yet WordPress performs worse in the field
- reference Astro on Cloudflare Pages: ~$0/month vs Next.js SSR ~$20-200/month (Bobes 2026 benchmark)
- reference Reference: 2026 performance budget — SMB marketing site (Candid default targets)
- reference Reference: the 8 most common INP killers — ranked by observed frequency
- reference Dan Taylor (SE Land, Jan 13 2026, n=107,352): CWV is a gate for AI citation, not a growth lever
- reference Astro vs Next.js (eastondev benchmark, Dec 2025): ~40% faster, ~90% less JS for static content
- reference Vodafone A/B test (2021): 31% LCP improvement → 8% more sales, 15% better lead-rate, 11% better cart-rate
- reference Web Almanac 2025: 48% mobile / 56% desktop origins pass all 3 CWV; LCP is the bottleneck
- reference Research brief: Page Speed as a Moat — why CWV separates the agencies from the freelancers (piece 9 of 15)
- reference Web Almanac 2024: median desktop page weight — WordPress 2,252 KB, Wix 2,560, Squarespace 3,323; 90th pct crosses 8 MB
- reference INP officially replaced FID as a Core Web Vital on March 12, 2024
- reference AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) generally do not execute JavaScript — client-side React/Vue without SSR is invisible
- reference Research brief: What makes a marketing site do something (piece on brochure vs platform)
