WordPress Sites
wordpress-500
The 500 highest-ranked WordPress sites in the Tranco list.
Median score
58
across 423 sites
Middle half
50–64
spread around the median
Full range
28–79
lowest to highest
Gated
161 of 423
block AI crawlers outright
Strongest of the 14 cohorts. All cohorts 50 · best cohort 58.
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) |
|---|---|
| License | Published 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. |
| How we filtered it | Every 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 of | BuiltWith 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. |
| Built | 2026-10-11 |
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
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adequate | 180 | 42.6% | |
| Strong | 10 | 2.4% | |
| Weak | 202 | 47.8% | |
| Not ready | 31 | 7.3% |
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.
| Dimension | Mean 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? |
53% | |
| #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
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 423 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 408 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 19 | 0 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 16 | 3 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RED-5 | Do your PDFs and images have their own rules for search and quoting? | 376 | 1 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 423 | 0 | |
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 423 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 68 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 377 | 2 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 417 | 0 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 423 | 0 |
Common — 90 to 95%
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 423 | 2 | |
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 423 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 423 | 0 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 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 101–200 of 500 · page 2 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| arstechnica.com arstechnica.comblockedTranco rank 1940; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| zdnet.com zdnet.comTranco rank 1943 | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| themeisle.com themeisle.comTranco rank 2006 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| moengage.com moengage.comTranco rank 2019 | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| ninjarmm.com ninjaone.comTranco rank 2036 | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| smilewanted.com smilewanted.comTranco rank 2075 | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| automattic.com automattic.comunreachableTranco rank 2090 | — | No | — | |
| gizmodo.com gizmodo.comTranco rank 2092 | 77 | No | 32 | |
| intentiq.com intentiq.comTranco rank 2101 | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| datto.com datto.comTranco rank 2130 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| primis.tech primis.techTranco rank 2135 | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| thesun.co.uk thesun.co.ukTranco rank 2139 | 55 | Gated | 1 | |
| aniview.com aniview.comTranco rank 2142 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| sonobi.com sonobi.comTranco rank 2147 | 50 | No | 1 | |
| fyber.com digitalturbine.comTranco rank 2159 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| unc.edu unc.eduTranco rank 2176 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| engadget.com engadget.comTranco rank 2185 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| ufl.edu ufl.eduTranco rank 2188 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| trustedstack.com trustedstack.comTranco rank 2197 | 60 | Gated | 10 | |
| adthrive.com raptive.comTranco rank 2209 | 56 | Gated | 31 | |
| variety.com variety.comTranco rank 2211 | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| sharethis.com sharethis.comTranco rank 2238 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| duke.edu duke.eduTranco rank 2250; also showed signs of Drupal; the stronger evidence decided | 57 | No | 32 | |
| generatepress.com generatepress.comTranco rank 2261 | 72 | No | 32 | |
| uiuc.edu illinois.eduTranco rank 2264 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| umbrella.com umbrella.cisco.comTranco rank 2265 | 74 | No | 32 | |
| useinsider.com insiderone.comTranco rank 2276 | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| cookiebot.com cookiebot.comTranco rank 2282 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| vox.com vox.comTranco rank 2287 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| bazaarvoice.com bazaarvoice.comTranco rank 2304 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| adswizz.com adswizz.comTranco rank 2309 | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| purdue.edu purdue.eduTranco rank 2318 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| unruly.co nexxen.comTranco rank 2337 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| websupport.sk websupport.skTranco rank 2359 | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| nielsen.com nielsen.comTranco rank 2365 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| chartboost.com loopme.aiTranco rank 2378 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| wpengine.com wpengine.comTranco rank 2395 | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| tappx.com tappx.comblockedTranco rank 2397; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| inmotionhosting.com inmotionhosting.comblockedTranco rank 2402; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| traffmonetizer.com traffmonetizer.comTranco rank 2413 | 29 | Gated | 1 | |
| rollingstone.com rollingstone.comTranco rank 2431 | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| usc.edu usc.eduTranco rank 2439 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| yotpo.com yotpo.comTranco rank 2462 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| moodle.com moodle.comblockedTranco rank 2469; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| urbanairship.com airship.comTranco rank 2487 | 74 | No | 32 | |
| x5.ru x5.ruTranco rank 2492 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| entrepreneur.com entrepreneur.comTranco rank 2493 | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| trustindex.io trustindex.ioTranco rank 2503 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| mojohost.com mojohost.comTranco rank 2506 | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| surfshark.com surfshark.comTranco rank 2535 | 58 | No | 32 | |
| hollywoodreporter.com hollywoodreporter.comTranco rank 2542 | 60 | No | 1 | |
| ssl.com ssl.comTranco rank 2548 | 72 | No | 32 | |
| churnzero.net churnzero.comblockedTranco rank 2552; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| nextdoor.com nextdoor.comTranco rank 2560 | 42 | Gated | 1 | |
| technologyreview.com technologyreview.comTranco rank 2586 | 46 | No | 8 | |
| tizen.org tizen.orgblockedTranco rank 2632; also showed signs of Drupal; the stronger evidence decided; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| matomo.org matomo.orgTranco rank 2638 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| woocommerce.com woocommerce.comTranco rank 2639 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| protectmyapp.com protectmyapp.comTranco rank 2649 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| brightspace.com d2l.comTranco rank 2665 | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| cpi.ad.jp cpi.ad.jpTranco rank 2683 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| riskified.com riskified.comblockedTranco rank 2699; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| vtex.com vtex.comTranco rank 2776 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| pubnative.net verve.comTranco rank 2817 | 79 | No | 32 | |
| utah.edu utah.eduTranco rank 2822 | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| ventraip.net.au ventraip.com.auTranco rank 2824 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| sportradar.com sportradar.comTranco rank 2837 | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| kochava.com kochava.comTranco rank 2842 | 50 | No | 1 | |
| tamu.edu tamu.eduTranco rank 2852 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| libsyn.com libsyn.comTranco rank 2887 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| senderscore.com senderscore.orgTranco rank 2910 | 58 | No | 32 | |
| cern.ch home.cernTranco rank 2942 | 60 | No | 1 | |
| hellotalk8.com hellotalk8.comTranco rank 3049 | 52 | Gated | 21 | |
| kbz0pwvxmv.com kbz0pwvxmv.comTranco rank 3110 | 39 | No | 1 | |
| brevo.com brevo.comTranco rank 3126 | 49 | No | 32 | |
| su89-cdn.net su89-cdn.netTranco rank 3138 | 39 | No | 1 | |
| mountain.com mountain.comTranco rank 3150 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| walkme.com walkme.comTranco rank 3177 | 48 | No | 1 | |
| admatic.de admatic.deTranco rank 3178 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| geeksforgeeks.org geeksforgeeks.orgTranco rank 3181 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| brookings.edu brookings.eduTranco rank 3191 | 36 | Gated | 32 | |
| the-ozone-project.com ozoneproject.comTranco rank 3231 | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| alchemer.com alchemer.comblockedTranco rank 3257; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| mediavine.com mediavine.comTranco rank 3278 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| ispot.tv ispot.tvTranco rank 3282 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| x-cdn-static.com x-cdn-static.comTranco rank 3290 | 48 | No | 1 | |
| iterable.com iterable.comTranco rank 3339 | 62 | No | 32 | |
| chartbeat.com chartbeat.comTranco rank 3353 | 49 | No | 32 | |
| c6gj-static.net c6gj-static.netTranco rank 3381 | 30 | Gated | 1 | |
| yg5sjx5kzy.com yg5sjx5kzy.comTranco rank 3402 | 48 | No | 1 | |
| ouraring.com ouraring.comTranco rank 3414 | 76 | No | 32 | |
| com.com gen.xyzblockedTranco rank 3418; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| wustl.edu washu.eduTranco rank 3445 | 58 | No | 32 | |
| nobelprize.org nobelprize.orgTranco rank 3454 | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| dictionary.com dictionary.comTranco rank 3456 | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| ipcc.ch ipcc.chTranco rank 3471 | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| jumpcloud.com jumpcloud.comTranco rank 3480 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| undertone.com perion.comblockedTranco rank 3522; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| mariadb.org mariadb.orgTranco rank 3530 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| colorlib.com colorlib.comTranco rank 3607 | 71 | 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