Rate your WordPress stack across performance, cost, security, governance, talent, and content velocity. Get a 6 to 30 score, a verdict, and next steps.
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Most WordPress migrations start with a crisis: a breach, a stalled redesign, or the one developer who knew the stack handing in notice. The companies that move well decide before the crisis, with a scored recommendation rather than a vague sense that something is wrong.
This scorer turns our six-factor WordPress evaluation into a two-minute diagnostic. Rate each factor against the published criteria and you get a 6 to 30 total, a verdict, and the next read for your situation. Nothing is gated: the score is yours the moment the sixth factor is rated. If you want the numbers in your inbox, we will email you the full profile.
Score it honestly against your own infrastructure rather than against WordPress in the abstract. A site on managed hosting running 12 well-maintained plugins is a different proposition from one on shared hosting running 47 maintained by a single freelancer, and the framework is built to tell those two apart.
Score your six factors
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A total under 13 is a real result, not a consolation prize. It means the switching cost does not pencil out yet, and the productive move is knowing what your current setup actually costs so you can watch the number that moves first. Above 19, the full framework explains what each factor is measuring and what a defensible evaluation looks like.
A self-assessment built on Lynton's six-factor WordPress evaluation framework. You rate performance, total cost of ownership, security exposure, governance dependency, talent availability, and content velocity at 1, 3, or 5 each, producing a total between 6 and 30 that maps to a stay, modernize, migrate, or urgent verdict.
Each of the six factors scores 1 (WordPress is performing fine in that dimension), 3 (mixed), or 5 (the data clearly points toward migration) against published criteria. For example, total cost scores 5 when annual WordPress spend across every vendor exceeds $80,000 and is rising. The six ratings sum to the total.
No score by itself means you should leave. A total of 19 or above indicates the evidence points that way across multiple factors, and that a six to twelve month project is worth scoping. Between 13 and 18, incremental improvements usually come first, including headless WordPress if performance is the main driver.
Yes. Totals of 6 to 12 mean WordPress is serving your needs and the switching cost rarely pencils out. The useful next step is knowing what the current setup costs across every vendor, then revisiting in 12 months. The framework is designed to produce that answer as readily as any other.
Bring your six ratings. We'll tell you what moving would involve and what it would cost, and if your score says optimize what you have, we'll say that too.