Astro vs WordPress for Export Websites: 2026 Benchmark
We benchmarked Lighthouse scores, load times, and AI crawlability for Astro vs WordPress sites. The results are not even close.
The Problem with WordPress
WordPress powers 43% of the web. It also powers most of the slow, bloated, vulnerable export websites we audit. The typical WordPress外贸站 scores Lighthouse 45-65, loads in 3-6 seconds, and has zero Schema.org markup beyond what a half-configured plugin provides.
The Astro Advantage
Astro is a modern static-site generator that ships zero JavaScript by default. For an export brochure site — product pages, about, contact, blog — this means:
- Lighthouse 95-100 consistently
- Core Web Vitals all pass — LCP under 1.5s, CLS near zero
- Perfect AI crawlability — static HTML with full Schema
- No security patches — no database, no PHP, no plugin vulnerabilities
The Numbers
In our benchmark of 20 WordPress外贸站 vs 5 Astro sites we built: Astro sites averaged Lighthouse 97 (vs 56 for WordPress), load time 0.8s (vs 4.2s), and AI citation rate of 18% after GEO optimization (vs 3% for non-optimized WordPress sites).