Drupal Benchmarks

Organizations, universities, governments, and enterprises that need strong content modeling, workflows, and governance.

A large institutional or government website.

• Drupal sites show the highest average content quality and depth in our corpus. Financial institutions, universities, and federal agencies dominate. The bar for publishing is high.
• When structured data is implemented on Drupal, it's thorough -- custom schema types, entity-level markup, the works. When it's absent, it's completely absent. There's almost no middle ground.
• Drupal's access control and content workflow features create measurable publishing discipline. These sites have authors, editors, and reviewers -- and it shows in content consistency.

• CWV pass rates are low relative to the technical sophistication of the organizations running them. Enterprise Drupal is often fast on the server side and slow on the browser side.
• Heavy contributed module weight that was added for one feature and never evaluated for its performance impact on every other page.
• Structured data treated as an all-or-nothing project. Teams either build a comprehensive schema system or skip it entirely.

• Drupal sites show the highest rate of accessibility-relevant markup in our corpus -- ARIA labels, skip navigation, landmark regions. The enterprise and government audience demands it, and the data reflects it.
• Drupal is the only major CMS where we regularly see custom schema types beyond Organization and WebSite. Enterprise teams build entity-specific markup: Event, Course, GovernmentService.