Implement query to get the usage of different WordPress template types on the home page #150
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…s on the home page.
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| SELECT | ||
| date, | ||
| "WordPress" AS cms, | ||
| IF(client = "mobile", "phone", "desktop") AS device, |
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I don't see "mobile" show up in the query results you posted in the description. I'm curious why you've included it here?
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It's aliased as phone, just a personal convention because CrUX uses phone instead of mobile. It's essentially the same.
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| CAST(JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(custom_metrics, "$.cms.wordpress.content_type.post_type") AS STRING) AS postType, | ||
| CAST(JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(custom_metrics, "$.cms.wordpress.content_type.taxonomy") AS STRING) AS taxonomy |
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Are either of these return values being used for something?
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No, but I put them here for reference, so that someone could easily take the query and use those values to get other insights. So mostly helpful for "educational" purposes.
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In recent years, it has been brought up several times to change the WordPress default of showing a blog on the home page by default to showing a static front page instead. This query looks at how common each variant is across the WordPress home pages indexed by HTTP Archive.
This is based on the detection implemented in the
httparchive/custom-metricsrepository, which relies on the WordPress-generated body classes.Query results
Summary
blog(i.e. not determined as the home blog), anarchive, orsingularcontent. Those are consistently far lower than 1% though, so it's not too relevant for the data. Possibly it happens because HTTP Archive considers some pages as root pages that are technically not the home page of the respective WordPress site.