wordpress-500

The 500 highest-ranked WordPress sites in the Tranco list.

Index 12.1 · scanned 2026-10-11 · up to 32 URLs per site · 500 organizations · 423 scanned (84.6% coverage)

Median score 60 across 423 sites
Middle half 51–66 spread around the median
Full range 28–80 lowest to highest
Gated 161 of 423 block AI crawlers outright

Strongest of the 16 cohorts. All cohorts 53 · best cohort 60.

Where this list came from

The source, and how we filtered it

Source Tranco top sites list, Tranco (Le Pochat et al., NDSS 2019) (2026-09-06)
LicensePublished for research use and redistributable. Each daily list has its own permanent identifier, which is what a citation has to name — 'the Tranco list' on its own is not reproducible.
Cite asTranco list 74V6X, generated 2026-09-06 from a 30-day window over the Crux, Farsight, Majestic, Radar and Umbrella rankings by the Dowdall method. The permanent list ID is the citation — 'the Tranco list' on its own names a different list every day. Cite also Le Pochat et al., NDSS 2019.
How we filtered itEvery site in the list, in rank order, had its homepage read once (one request, our declared user agent) and tested by census/wordpress.py for WordPress. The same response is tested for all three technology cohorts, so a site is read once however many cohorts it might be in, and belongs to at most one: where two technologies match, the stronger evidence wins and the other is named on the row. The position in the cohort is 1..n in Tranco order and nothing is ever reordered by anything of ours. Only medium confidence and above is admitted: one weak signal is a coincidence waiting to be pointed out, and a wrong row is somebody in that community finding a site in our list that is not WordPress, and being right. Every row carries the signals that decided it, so a disagreement can be about that site rather than about the number. A site is one row per registered domain, taken from where its homepage finally landed, so a company's country domains that redirect to one site are one row, at the best Tranco rank among them. The URL is the root of the landing host.
Instead ofBuiltWith and Wappalyzer datasets, which are licensed. Also WordPress.org's own showcase, which self-selects toward flattering examples and cannot be the base of a survey.
Built2026-10-11

The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.

Distribution

Where the 423 sites land

GradeShare of the cohort SitesShare
Adequate
199 47.0%
Strong
13 3.1%
Weak
185 43.7%
Not ready
26 6.1%
By dimension

What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension

The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.

DimensionMean share earned Mean
#1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information.
72%
#2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it?
56%
#3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are?
40%
#4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget.
63%
How much of each site we read

The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.

7 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.

Where this cohort fails

4 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes

Universal — nobody passes these 4 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
EXT-12 Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes?
100.0%
423 0
EXT-17 Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records?
100.0%
408 0
EXT-7 If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such?
100.0%
19 0
UND-2 Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish?
100.0%
16 3
Near-universal — 95% and above 6 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
EXT-16 Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run?
98.8%
423 0
EXT-11 Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question?
98.6%
423 0
EXT-18 Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay?
98.5%
68 0
RED-10 Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages?
98.4%
377 2
EXT-14 Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools?
96.9%
417 0
PST-2 Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content?
96.7%
423 0
Common — 90 to 95% 4 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more
TestWhat it asks FailingOf Points
RED-12 If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it?
94.5%
421 2
EXT-13 Can an assistant ask your site a question directly?
94.3%
423 0
PST-4 Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read?
92.9%
423 0
EXT-4 Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool?
92.7%
423 0

Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.

Every site

Every 500, named, with a report for each

Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.

Showing 401–500 of 500 · page 5 of 5

SiteScore GatedPages read Report
powerreviews.com powerreviews.comTranco rank 7131 61 No 32
observer.com observer.comTranco rank 7137 59 No 32
wordstream.com wordstream.comblockedTranco rank 7155; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
domaintechnik.at domaintechnik.atTranco rank 7167 61 No 32
poynter.org poynter.orgunreachableTranco rank 7172 — No —
trevenque.es trevenque.esTranco rank 7174 53 Gated 32
cmtelematics.com cmtelematics.comunreachableTranco rank 7207 — No —
browserstack.com browserstack.comTranco rank 7210 65 Gated 32
hotnews.ro hotnews.roTranco rank 7216 65 No 32
piwik.pro piwik.proTranco rank 7221 61 No 32
vidyard.com vidyard.comTranco rank 7238 63 No 32
nami.org nami.orgblockedTranco rank 7254; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
in.gr in.grTranco rank 7284 58 Gated 32
uncn.jp unicorn.incblockedTranco rank 7329; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
nrc.nl nrc.nlTranco rank 7346 38 Gated 32
baltimoresun.com baltimoresun.comTranco rank 7350 54 No 32
0123tt.ru 0123tt.ruTranco rank 7357 57 No 7
lansweeper.com lansweeper.comblockedTranco rank 7387; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
jqueryui.com jqueryui.comTranco rank 7388 66 No 9
outsideonline.com outsideonline.comTranco rank 7407 71 No 32
snapp.ir snapp.irTranco rank 7414 64 No 32
cryoutcreations.eu cryoutcreations.euTranco rank 7437 68 Gated 32
irancell.ir irancell.irTranco rank 7446 52 No 32
bling.com.br bling.com.brTranco rank 7466 64 No 32
leadsquared.com leadsquared.comblockedTranco rank 7476; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
famethemes.com famethemes.comTranco rank 7490 56 No 32
zdbb.net ziffdavis.comTranco rank 7491 63 No 32
indeed.tech engineering.indeedblog.comTranco rank 7511 78 No 32
alodokter.com alodokter.comTranco rank 7517 33 Gated 1
macromill.com macromill.comTranco rank 7551 62 No 32
rd.com rd.comTranco rank 7567 61 No 32
sbb.rs sbb.rsTranco rank 7592 35 Gated 32
kabutan.jp kabutan.jpblockedTranco rank 7593; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
lekton.io xn--e1akbkex.xn--p1aiTranco rank 7613 72 No 13
theonion.com theonion.comTranco rank 7615 46 No 32
statnews.com statnews.comTranco rank 7631 62 No 32
admatic.com.tr admatic.com.trTranco rank 7677 43 Gated 18
articulate.com articulate.comTranco rank 7678 67 No 32
brasil247.com brasil247.comTranco rank 7682 72 No 32
kff.org kff.orgTranco rank 7686 29 Gated 1
funplus.com funplus.comTranco rank 7700 43 Gated 32
ucf.edu ucf.eduTranco rank 7746 65 No 32
clickpetroleoegas.com.br clickpetroleoegas.com.brblockedTranco rank 7751; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
titan.email titan.emailblockedTranco rank 7764; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
cloud86.nl cloud86.ioTranco rank 7766 50 No 32
ndmais.com.br ndmais.com.brTranco rank 7783 61 Gated 32
cleverreach.com cleverreach.comTranco rank 7790 71 No 1
naftemporiki.gr naftemporiki.grTranco rank 7802 48 Gated 32
userreport.com userreport.comblockedTranco rank 7804; not measured: HTTP 403 — No —
danas.rs danas.rsTranco rank 7814 65 No 32
wurflcloud.com scientiamobile.comTranco rank 7851 44 Gated 32
elfsight.com elfsight.comTranco rank 7859 63 No 32
indiewire.com indiewire.comTranco rank 7885 55 Gated 32
sift.com sift.comTranco rank 7890 79 No 32
novelupdates.com novelupdates.comblockedTranco rank 7904; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
udmserve.net underdogmedia.comTranco rank 7910 29 Gated 1
ledger.com ledger.comblockedTranco rank 7987; not measured: HTTP 429 (Cloudflare) — No —
pingdom.com pingdom.comTranco rank 7991 49 Gated 30
digitalaudience.io digitalaudience.ioTranco rank 8000 62 No 9
allporncomic.com allporncomic.comblockedTranco rank 8018; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
washingtonexaminer.com washingtonexaminer.comTranco rank 8019 69 Gated 32
metunic.com.tr metunic.com.trTranco rank 8051 62 No 32
tudocelular.com tudocelular.comTranco rank 8057 55 No 27
examiner.com examiner.comTranco rank 8062 52 Gated 24
elitebabes.com elitebabes.comTranco rank 8072 56 No 32
uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.deTranco rank 8075 60 No 32
fitgirl-repacks.site fitgirl-repacks.siteTranco rank 8081 64 No 32
kriesi.at kriesi.atTranco rank 8087 55 No 32
catracalivre.com.br catracalivre.com.brTranco rank 8108 71 No 32
exlibrisgroup.com exlibrisgroup.comTranco rank 8114 55 No 32
cylance.com arcticwolf.comTranco rank 8120 54 No 32
misa.vn misa.vnTranco rank 8155 58 No 32
javhdporn.net javhdporn.netblockedTranco rank 8171; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
horoscope.com horoscope.comTranco rank 8181 58 No 32
financialexpress.com financialexpress.comblockedTranco rank 8193; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) — No —
itatiaia.com.br itatiaia.com.brTranco rank 8209 50 No 1
utua.com.br utua.com.brTranco rank 8210 51 Gated 4
socialmediagirls.com socialmediagirls.comTranco rank 8256 58 Gated 32
bestjavporn.com bestjavporn.comblockedTranco rank 8265; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
javdock.com javdock.comblockedTranco rank 8294; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
andersnoren.se andersnoren.seTranco rank 8298 53 Gated 32
clarivate.com clarivate.comTranco rank 8299 41 Gated 32
onlinekhabar.com onlinekhabar.comTranco rank 8311 46 No 32
xanimu.com xanimu.comblockedTranco rank 8324; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
moe.gov.my moe.gov.myblockedTranco rank 8383; not measured: HTTP 403 (Imperva) — No —
kayzen.io kayzen.ioTranco rank 8384 58 Gated 32
sss.gov.ph sss.gov.phTranco rank 8401 69 No 32
newsit.gr newsit.grTranco rank 8403 55 Gated 32
kingofshojo.com kingofshojo.comTranco rank 8412 64 No 32
mangaread.org mangaread.orgTranco rank 8419 57 Gated 32
apkvision.org apkvision.orgTranco rank 8429 78 No 32
javxxx.me javxxx.meblockedTranco rank 8447; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
namnak.com namnak.comTranco rank 8453 61 No 32
privateinternetaccess.com privateinternetaccess.comTranco rank 8460 61 No 32
mixnews.lv mixnews.lvTranco rank 8483 61 No 32
nefisyemektarifleri.com nefisyemektarifleri.comTranco rank 8504 57 Gated 32
doofinder.com doofinder.comTranco rank 8509 55 Gated 32
g4media.ro g4media.roblockedTranco rank 8510; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) — No —
world.co.jp corp.world.co.jpTranco rank 8516 61 No 32
anal.media anal.mediaTranco rank 8551 60 No 32

Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Data: sites.csv · checks.csv · summary.json