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WordPress Core Web Vitals: What Actually Fixes LCP

An evidence review of field data, WordPress core benchmarks, and vendor claims.

Where WordPress stands in late 2026 4. In field data the six WordPress caching plugins span 10 to 13.5 points. Among the top 100,000 WordPress sites by traffic, 63.3% have good desktop TTFB, against 33.2% across all WordPress origins.

Key takeaways

  • Ruter is a WordPress core committer on the Core Performance Team.
  • Field data is the judge.
  • FAQ What percentage of WordPress sites pass Core Web Vitals in 2026?

In the September 2026 HTTP Archive data, 48.3% of WordPress mobile origins and 53.7% of desktop origins pass all three metrics.

Read the full article: https://www.seohack.info/wordpress-core-web-vitals/

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