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 201–300 of 500 · page 3 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nydailynews.com nydailynews.comTranco rank 3630 | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| aljazeera.net aljazeera.netTranco rank 3679 | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| nexx360.io nexx360.ioTranco rank 3689 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| themegrill.com themegrill.comTranco rank 3694 | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| celtra.com celtra.comTranco rank 3695 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| elementor.com elementor.comTranco rank 3699 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| yomiuri.co.jp yomiuri.co.jpunreachableTranco rank 3796 | — | No | — | |
| apnic.net apnic.netTranco rank 3799 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| ispconfig.org ispconfig.orgTranco rank 3800 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| complianz.io complianz.ioTranco rank 3847 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| permutive.com permutive.comTranco rank 3864 | 72 | No | 32 | |
| reolink.com reolink.comTranco rank 3939 | 46 | No | 32 | |
| zimperium.com zimperium.comTranco rank 3980 | 50 | No | 32 | |
| signifyd.com signifyd.comTranco rank 3984 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| wufoo.com wufoo.comTranco rank 4007 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| easydns.com easydns.comblockedTranco rank 4105; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| termly.io termly.ioTranco rank 4162 | 51 | No | 32 | |
| propublica.org propublica.orgTranco rank 4186 | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| swrve.com messagegears.comblockedTranco rank 4220; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| blender.org blender.orgTranco rank 4234 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| cnnbrasil.com.br cnnbrasil.com.brTranco rank 4235 | 50 | Gated | 31 | |
| ecwid.com ecwid.comTranco rank 4265 | 67 | No | 32 | |
| vanderbilt.edu vanderbilt.eduTranco rank 4300 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| computerworld.com computerworld.comTranco rank 4306 | 50 | No | 1 | |
| home.blog home.blogblockedTranco rank 4308; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| dfn.de dfn.deTranco rank 4326 | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| cyberfolks.pl cyberfolks.plTranco rank 4365 | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| mobilityware.com mobilityware.comTranco rank 4377 | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| cookieadmin.net cookieadmin.netTranco rank 4390 | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| camscanner.com camscanner.comTranco rank 4440 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| 1digitech.com 1digitech.comTranco rank 4457 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| neilpatel.com neilpatel.comblockedTranco rank 4486; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| coxautoinc.com coxautoinc.comTranco rank 4503 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| recruit.co.jp recruit.co.jpblockedTranco rank 4508; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| searchenginejournal.com searchenginejournal.comTranco rank 4513 | 73 | No | 32 | |
| popsci.com popsci.comTranco rank 4523 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| wsu.edu wsu.eduTranco rank 4529 | 53 | No | 32 | |
| impact.com impact.comTranco rank 4535 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| colostate.edu colostate.eduTranco rank 4555 | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| groww.in groww.inTranco rank 4584 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.comTranco rank 4602 | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| mynavi.jp mynavi.jpTranco rank 4688 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| msnbc.com ms.nowTranco rank 4692 | 35 | Gated | 32 | |
| join.chat join.chatTranco rank 4706 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| ricta.org.rw ricta.org.rwTranco rank 4763 | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| onlamp.com oreilly.comTranco rank 4764 | 50 | No | 1 | |
| hardened-php.net hardened-php.netTranco rank 4779 | 69 | No | 3 | |
| grab.com grab.comTranco rank 4802 | 47 | No | 32 | |
| webengage.com webengage.comblockedTranco rank 4824; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| nominaltechno.com nt.technologyTranco rank 4841 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| appdome.com appdome.comTranco rank 4870 | 67 | No | 32 | |
| honeygain.com honeygain.comTranco rank 4879 | 53 | No | 17 | |
| 9mod.com 9mod.comblockedTranco rank 4883; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| harica.gr harica.grTranco rank 4924 | 70 | No | 12 | |
| liquidweb.com liquidweb.comTranco rank 4967 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| jivox.com davincicommerce.aiTranco rank 4986 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| counterpane.com schneier.comblockedTranco rank 4992; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| intermedia.net intermedia.comunreachableTranco rank 5045 | — | No | — | |
| zoneedit.com zoneedit.comblockedTranco rank 5058; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| quicksetcloud.com quicksetcloud.comblockedTranco rank 5066; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| wassenaar.org wassenaar.orgTranco rank 5099 | 71 | No | 18 | |
| qodeinteractive.com qodeinteractive.comTranco rank 5133 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| mercurynews.com mercurynews.comTranco rank 5135 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| infobip.com infobip.comTranco rank 5138 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| remitly.com remitly.comTranco rank 5148 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| epfl.ch epfl.chTranco rank 5158 | 48 | No | 32 | |
| forrester.com forrester.comTranco rank 5169 | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| kotaku.com kotaku.comTranco rank 5194 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| certum.pl certum.plTranco rank 5228 | 43 | No | 32 | |
| krushmedia.com krushmedia.comTranco rank 5230 | 63 | Gated | 19 | |
| uic.edu uic.eduTranco rank 5235 | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| felenasoft.com felenasoft.comTranco rank 5265 | 51 | No | 1 | |
| eyeo.com eyeo.comTranco rank 5308 | 45 | No | 10 | |
| aptrinsic.com gainsight.comTranco rank 5313 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| sundaysky.com sundaysky.comTranco rank 5343 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| wedos.cz vedos.czTranco rank 5355 | 29 | Gated | 1 | |
| aclu.org aclu.orgTranco rank 5361 | 73 | No | 1 | |
| github.blog github.blogTranco rank 5368 | 73 | No | 32 | |
| benzinga.com benzinga.comblockedTranco rank 5369; also showed signs of Drupal; the stronger evidence decided; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| fareharbor.com fareharbor.comTranco rank 5393 | 49 | No | 32 | |
| heroku.com heroku.comTranco rank 5394 | 40 | No | 1 | |
| athemes.com athemes.comTranco rank 5430 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| mypurecloud.com genesys.comTranco rank 5432 | 74 | No | 32 | |
| thinkific.com thinkific.comblockedTranco rank 5433; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| hola.org hola.orgTranco rank 5435 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| media6degrees.com dstillery.comTranco rank 5462 | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| yeastar.com yeastar.comTranco rank 5471 | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| uni-erlangen.de fau.deTranco rank 5476 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| imunify360.com imunify360.comblockedTranco rank 5482; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| yorku.ca yorku.caTranco rank 5483 | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| apkmirror.com apkmirror.comblockedTranco rank 5492; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| itglue.com itglue.comTranco rank 5500 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| lbl.gov lbl.govTranco rank 5523 | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| sciencealert.com sciencealert.comTranco rank 5527 | 60 | Gated | 31 | |
| sleepfoundation.org sleepfoundation.orgblockedTranco rank 5552; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| travelaudience.com amadeus-hospitality.comTranco rank 5557 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| uconn.edu uconn.eduTranco rank 5561 | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| blacknight.com blacknight.comTranco rank 5584 | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| threatdown.com threatdown.comTranco rank 5622 | 48 | No | 32 | |
| brivo.com brivo.comTranco rank 5633 | 58 | Gated | 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