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Ghost Benchmarks

Ghost is an open-source publishing platform focused on blogs, newsletters, and memberships. This page shows how Ghost sites perform and what they run, from a sample of 5,765 sites.

About Ghost

Built for

Publishers, creators, and media teams focused on content and subscriptions.

Most common use

A blog or online publication.

Strengths
  • Clean writing and editing experience
  • Built-in memberships and newsletters
  • Good performance and modern stack
Watch-outs
  • Less general-purpose than WordPress
  • Theme ecosystem is smaller
  • Custom features may need development

Performance overview

86%
CWV pass rate
509 field-data sites
1.2s
Median LCP
50ms
Median INP
0.00
Median CLS

Tool adoption

CDN96%
Analytics88%
Email capture45%
Payments33%
Tag manager18%
Cookie compliance9%
Marketing automation8%
Live chat7%
CRM3%
SEO plugins3%
Maps1%
A/B testing1%
Reviews1%
Booking0%
Reservations0%

Structured data and SEO markup

Open Graph99%
Canonical tag98%
JSON-LD98%
Twitter Card98%
Organization schema97%
WebSite schema93%
Article schema8%
Microdata3%
Breadcrumb schema3%
Product schema2%
FAQPage schema1%
LocalBusiness schema1%

Most-used tools

Analytics
  • 1Google Analytics
  • 2Tinybird
  • 3Cloudflare Browser Insights
SEO
  • 1Yoast SEO
  • 2RankMath SEO
  • 3Ahrefs
Live chat
  • 1WhatsApp Business Chat
  • 2Zendesk
  • 3Intercom
Reviews
  • 1Trustindex
  • 2Trustpilot
  • 3Trusted Shops
Booking
  • 1Calendly
  • 2GetYourGuide
  • 3FareHarbor
CDN
  • 1jsDelivr
  • 2Cloudflare
  • 3jQuery CDN
Marketing automation
  • 1MailChimp
  • 2HubSpot
  • 3Sendinblue
Cookie compliance
  • 1Funding Choices
  • 2CookieYes
  • 3iubenda

Top countries

iodeukco

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Percentages show the share of Ghost sites where each signal was detected. Benchmarks derived from public web-performance datasets (HTTP Archive and the Chrome UX Report); cleaning, platform classification, and analysis are Stackra's own.