Posts tagged "security"

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March 02, 2026 9 min read

The Payment Security Stack: What 3,200 Websites Reveal About Payment Infrastructure

We analyzed 3,224 websites with detected payment providers and cross-referenced them with SEO, EEAT, WCAG, server, DNS, and mail infrastructure data. PayPal sites are 69% gambling. Stripe sites run on nginx and enterprise DNS. Square sites serve traditional businesses on Apache. Your payment provider choice correlates with your entire infrastructure profile — and your quality grades.

March 01, 2026 13 min read

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.

February 25, 2026 11 min read

Infrastructure Concentration Index: How Much of the Web Depends on Cloudflare, AWS, and Google

We cross-referenced 1.4 million domains across three infrastructure layers — web servers, DNS, and email — to measure how concentrated the internet really is. Cloudflare alone handles 40% of DNS and 32% of web traffic in our dataset. 202,884 domains depend on Cloudflare for both web serving and DNS resolution — a single point of failure for every one of them.