Platform Comparison

Wordpress vs Exhibit

Exhibit leads
52.5
Wordpress
64.0
Exhibit
WINNER

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability
63.7 73.5
Avg Security
27.0 16.7
Avg Efficiency
57.4 77.3
Avg Total Score
52.5 64.0
Avg Structure
63.2 80.8
Avg Load Complexity
52.9 86.3
Avg Lighthouse
55.8 62.8
Best Site Score
83.9 70.0
Worst Site Score
28.4 59.7
Wordpress Exhibit

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry Wordpress Exhibit
Architecture — —
Content Creation — —
Corporate-personal — —
Design — —
Film & Video — —
Photography — —

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

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

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

Industry-by-Industry Results

The platforms split industry wins evenly across 6 shared verticals - the overall score gap may be driven by a few outlier sites rather than a consistent pattern.

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.