The WordPress Paradox: How the Web's Most Attacked CMS Produces Its Highest-Quality Websites
We analyzed 477,550 WordPress sites and compared them against 12 competing CMSes across SEO, EEAT, WCAG, readability, and GARM grades. WordPress's EEAT pass rate is 49.3% — double the web average of 24.5%. Its SEO pass rate is 0.81% — 69% above average. The same plugin ecosystem that creates 97% of CMS vulnerabilities also produces measurably higher-quality websites. Cloudflare-hosted WordPress sites have 2.86% SEO pass rate — 7x nginx. Vietnamese and Turkish WordPress sites pass SEO at 10x the English rate.