Craft CMS Benchmarks

Developers, agencies, and organizations building bespoke content driven sites for small to mid sized projects.

Custom marketing or editorial website.

• Craft sites are built by developers who chose Craft specifically, and it shows. URL structure, canonical implementation, and schema markup are more deliberate than on any plugin-driven platform.
• Content modeling is a genuine Craft strength -- the sections and fields system creates content that's structured intentionally, not retrofitted.
• We rarely see the plugin-conflict chaos that appears on WordPress. The tighter ecosystem has fewer collisions.

• High developer cost means content updates are often delayed. Technically excellent sites with content that hasn't changed since launch.
• Ecommerce requires Craft Commerce as an add-on -- the added complexity creates additional failure surfaces.
• Image optimization is manual unless explicitly implemented. Craft doesn't compress or optimize images by default.

• Craft CMS sites have among the highest average Stackra GRS scores in our database. Intentional builds score well across every pillar -- performance, SEO, and conversion signals all trend higher than platform averages.
• Craft CMS sites show the lowest rate of plugin-related errors and inconsistencies in our corpus. The tighter ecosystem produces cleaner, more predictable output than the WordPress plugin market.