Benchmarks/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.
Where WordPress sites fail most
| Check | Pass | Warn | Fail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
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