While performing my semi-annual site review for CfBlogs.org to determine active blog sites, I came across an article from DebugBear. This article

Lighthouse Scores of Blog Sites Driven by ColdFusion

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2024-05-02 22:00:11

While performing my semi-annual site review for CfBlogs.org to determine active blog sites, I came across an article from DebugBear. This article indicates that the average lighthouse score for WordPress is 32%, and the average for Wix is 72%.

After reading the DebugBear article, I wanted to see how these scores compare to ColdFusion-based sites. A recent test by Brad Wood from Ortus suggests that ColdFusion is the second fastest-performing web language.

If Brad's findings are correct, ColdFusion-driven blog sites should perform better than most of these platforms, as Wix is similar to node.js in that it uses JavaScript, and WordPress uses PHP, one of the slower languages, according to this study.

In this article, we will analyze the active ColdFusion-oriented blogs driven by ColdFusion or WordPress and see how they compare.

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