Exhibit vs Custom — Platform Benchmark

64.0

Exhibit

4 sites

WINNER

51.9

Custom

256 sites

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability

73.5 52.3

Avg Security

16.7 37.3

Avg Efficiency

77.3 56.8

Avg Total Score

64.0 51.9

Avg Structure

80.8 47.2

Avg Load Complexity

86.3 67.7

Avg Lighthouse

62.8 55.1

Best Site Score

70.0 87.6

Worst Site Score

59.7 15.7

Exhibit Custom

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry	Exhibit	Custom
Architecture	—	52.4 6 sites
Content Creation	—	54.1 6 sites
Corporate-personal	—	47.3 86 sites
Design	—	66.2 3 sites
Photography	64.0 4 sites	54.1 155 sites

Comparison Insights

Overall Verdict

Exhibit meaningfully outperforms Custom by 12.1 points on average. This reflects a consistent quality gap across their sites.

Dimension Edge

Exhibit leads in: AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Load Complexity, Lighthouse. Custom leads in: Security. Exhibit has a broader performance advantage across dimensions.

Opportunities for improvement

Exhibit could target Security to close the gap.
Custom could target AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Load Complexity, Lighthouse to improve.

Industry-by-Industry Results

Exhibit wins in 1 of 5 shared industries, suggesting its advantage is consistent rather than driven by a single vertical.

Sample Size Consideration

Custom has 64× more audited sites than Exhibit. Larger samples surface more variation and may pull averages toward the mean, so this comparison should be read with that in mind.