Benchmarks/WordPress

WordPress

Tracking quality on WordPress

Aggregate stats from every public TagEasy audit where we identified the site as WordPress. Refresh hourly.

WordPress sites audited

121

Median score

79 / 100

Mean score

73 / 100

Consent Mode v2

7%

pass rate

What this means for WordPress

# WordPress Tracking Quality Benchmark WordPress sites sit at a median score of 79, but that obscures a critical compliance gap: 93% fail Consent Mode v2 implementation despite 70% running GA4. The typical WordPress stack is heavily weighted toward analytics (GA4 and GTM at 68–70%) and session replay (Hotjar dominates at 67%), with moderate ad-pixel coverage across LinkedIn, Google Ads, and Meta. Error monitoring is sparse (13% for New Relic), and CDP adoption is negligible at just 6%. The weakest vulnerability is that only 7% of audits pass consent checks—most sites deploy these trackers without proper consent signaling to Google. A secondary weakness: 30% of GA4 implementations lack a valid measurement ID, indicating incomplete setup. WordPress operators should audit their Google Tag Manager configuration, implement Consent Mode v2 callbacks for all restricted vendors, and validate their GA4 property IDs before traffic scaling.

Generated from the WordPress-only stats above. Refreshes hourly.

Score distribution

Where the typical WordPress site lands.

0–19 (broken)
0 sites
20–39 (poor)
0 sites
40–59 (mixed)
28 sites
60–79 (decent)
44 sites
80–100 (healthy)
49 sites

Where WordPress sites fail most

CheckPassWarnFail
Consent Mode v2 7% 0% 93%
GA4 measurement ID 70% 0% 30%
GTM debug mode 95% 0% 5%
GTM container 68% 32% 0%
Meta Pixel 26% 74% 0%
TikTok Pixel 12% 88% 0%
Google Ads conversion 28% 72% 0%
Consent banner 27% 73% 0%
PII in URL 100% 0% 0%
Tracking script weight 99% 1% 0%
HTTPS 100% 0% 0%
Single GA4 property 86% 14% 0%
DataLayer initialised 48% 52% 0%

Vendor adoption on WordPress

Ad pixels

LinkedIn Insight
31%
Google Ads
28%
Reddit
18%
TikTok Pixel
12%
Snap
5%
Bing UET
2%

Analytics

GA4
70%
GTM
68%

DTC / Marketing

Session replay

A/B testing

VWO
1%

Error monitoring

New Relic Browser
13%

Chat / messaging

HubSpot Chat
7%

Affiliate / partner

Awin
3%

Privacy-first analytics

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