# State of the WordPress ecosystem

**URL:** <https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/state-of-the-wordpress-ecosystem/1145>\
**Category:** Analysis\
**Created:** [November 14, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/state-of-the-wordpress-ecosystem/1145 "2017-11-14T21:12:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/state-of-the-wordpress-ecosystem/1145/2 "2017-11-14T23:15:23Z")

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Here are the Lighthouse a11y scores for WordPress vs all other pages.

```sql
SELECT
  url IN (SELECT url FROM `httparchive.scratchspace.wordpress`) AS is_wordpress,
  JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(report, '$.reportCategories[2].score') AS a11y_score,
  COUNT(0) AS volume
FROM
  `httparchive.lighthouse.2017_10_15_mobile`
WHERE
  report IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY
  is_wordpress,
  a11y_score
ORDER BY
  is_wordpress,
  a11y_score

```

_Also remember that Lighthouse results are only available for mobile._

> **[WordPress a11y](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rvH9VUWrTrJpD1YZhcmJvTiNZzDKstdeVaXrG0767g0/edit?usp=sharing)**
>
> Data
> 
> is\_wordpress, a11y\_score, volume
> Not WordPress, 74. 29, 6171
> Not WordPress, 80. 00, 31467
> Not WordPress, 97. 14, 15840
> Not WordPress, 77. 14, 15436
> Not WordPress, 82. 86, 50376
> Not WordPress, 60. 00, 2
> Not WordPress, 100. 00, 18108
> Not...

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/httparchive/original/1X/ae057407672e1b331a7f060836e03016584fd192.png)

a11y scores for WordPress pages tend to be more tightly packed into scores in the 85-90 range, while non-WordPress pages have more of a spread in the higher and lower scores. Maybe this could be explained by WordPress pages being built on top of a core template with many of the a11y best practices built in? Someone more experienced with standard deviations, help me explain this better 😛. The median score isn’t a very helpful metric because there are so few distinct scores (only 15). FWIW each page type has a median score of 85.71.

Another way of looking at the data is to set some threshold for a good score and measure the percent of scores that are better than it. For a score threshold of 90:

```sql
    WordPress: 29%
Not WordPress: 33%

```

But because of the big WordPress mode at 85.71, lowering the threshold to 85 shows WordPress being the winner:

```sql
    WordPress: 72%
Not WordPress: 69%

```

The thresholds are arbitrary, but this data shows that WordPress pages are less likely to get the really good or perfect a11y scores.

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