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- referenceManaged WordPress host TTFB benchmarks (HostingStep 2025, 34 hosts, 1,960+ days of 24/7 monitoring)
- referenceA well-optimized WordPress + Gutenberg + Kadence/GeneratePress site on managed hosting can plausibly match an Astro-on-Cloudflare site in CWV
- referenceWordPress CWV gap causal decomposition (May 2026): ~40-50% hosting/TTFB, ~20-30% page builders, ~15-20% plugins, ~5-10% core, ~5-10% theme
- referenceResearch brief: WordPress + Page Builders vs Modern Custom Stacks — sourced performance comparison (piece 18)
- referenceBricks Builder produces the cleanest output of the WordPress visual builders; recommend it only when client absolutely cannot work in Gutenberg
- referenceWordPress page-builder market share, 2025 Web Almanac: Elementor 43% (down from 56% in 2024); Gutenberg 18% (up from ~12%); WPBakery 13%; Divi 10%
- referenceWordPress 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
- referencePlatform mobile CWV pass rates, November 2025 CrUX Tech Report (SEJ analysis, Dec 2025)
- referencePronto Marketing: Elementor FAQ Accordion + Element Caching breaks FAQPage JSON-LD ("Missing field text")
- referenceElementor does not generate schema markup by default — Schema Pilot: "None of the layouts or widgets add structured data"
- referenceElementor GitHub Issue #11779 (open): "Elementor is not fully compliant out of the box and breaks many accessibility rules"
- referenceElementor 3.26 (late 2024): removed legacy Schemes API + enabled Element Caching by default — risky for shortcode-dependent themes
- referenceElementor 3.24.1 (August 2024): widespread reports of broken sites + entire designs lost in update
- referenceBricks CVE-2024-25600: unauthenticated RCE (CVSS 10) — exploited in the wild ~24 hours after patch release
- referenceElementor Pro Nov 2023: removed ACF/Pods integration from Essential plan for new customers
- referenceGeneratePress official: "You cannot convert Elementor's code to the code required by the Block Editor"
- referenceWPPoland: Elementor → Gutenberg rebuilds yield ~40% mobile site speed increase (multi-client benchmark)
- referenceElementor own admission: Flexbox Containers ship 40% less HTML output than sections/columns
- referenceWeb Almanac 2024: WordPress mobile CWV pass rate jumped 28% (2023) → 40% (2024); median mobile Lighthouse Perf 38
- referenceW3Techs (April 2026): Elementor on 18.6% of WordPress sites, 13.2% of all websites
- referenceResearch brief: The Case Against Page Builders (piece 10 of 15)
- referenceDivi 5 official release Feb 26, 2026; Divi 4 → 5 is one-way migration; rollback gets harder over time
- referenceWeb Almanac 2024: median desktop page weight — WordPress 2,252 KB, Wix 2,560, Squarespace 3,323; 90th pct crosses 8 MB
- referenceSucuri 2023: 39.1% of CMS apps outdated at point of infection (down from 50.58% in 2022)
- referenceWordfence 2024: 54 billion malicious requests blocked, ~325-350k sites infected on any given day
- referencePatchstack 2024: 1,614 plugins and themes removed from .org repo for unpatched security issues
- referencePatchstack 2024: 4,166 new vulnerabilities, 96% in plugins, 4% in themes, only 7 in core
- referenceACF custom fields don't survive WordPress's native XML export — image IDs + serialized arrays break
- referenceElementor: no built-in "deactivate but retain content" option — open feature request since 2018
- referenceDivi 4 stored content as proprietary [et_pb_*] shortcodes — orphan text on theme deactivation (Divi 5 fixes this)
- referenceBlackRock marks down Automattic shares 67.4% to $27.74 (June 30, 2025) — financial signal of dispute cost
- referenceACF → SCF forced fork (Oct 12, 2024) — first unilateral plugin takeover in 21-year WordPress history
- referenceWP Engine vs Automattic timeline (Sept 2024 → ongoing) — open-source has centralized choke points
- referencePatchstack 2026: 91% of new WordPress vulnerabilities are in plugins; only 6 CVEs in core
- referenceElementor sites show pre-optimization median mobile LCP of 3.8–5.2s — well above Google's 2.5s threshold
- referenceWordPress market share (May 2026): 43.2% of web, 60.4% of CMS — peaked at 65.2% in 2022
- referenceResearch brief: What makes a marketing site do something (piece on brochure vs platform)
