Exhibit vs Wordpress — Platform Benchmark

64.0

Exhibit

4 sites

WINNER

52.5

Wordpress

240 sites

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability

73.5 63.7

Avg Security

16.7 27.0

Avg Efficiency

77.3 57.4

Avg Total Score

64.0 52.5

Avg Structure

80.8 63.2

Avg Load Complexity

86.3 52.9

Avg Lighthouse

62.8 55.8

Best Site Score

70.0 83.9

Worst Site Score

59.7 28.4

Exhibit Wordpress

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry	Exhibit	Wordpress
Architecture	—	48.3 19 sites
Content Creation	—	55.0 3 sites
Corporate-personal	—	53.0 25 sites
Design	—	51.5 11 sites
Film & Video	—	64.7 1 sites
Photography	64.0 4 sites	52.8 181 sites

Comparison Insights

Overall Verdict

Exhibit meaningfully outperforms Wordpress by 11.5 points on average. This reflects a consistent quality gap across their sites.

Dimension Edge

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

Opportunities for improvement

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

Industry-by-Industry Results

Exhibit wins in 1 of 6 shared industries, suggesting its advantage is consistent rather than driven by a single vertical.

Sample Size Consideration

Wordpress has 60× 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.