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 301–400 of 500 · page 4 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tivo.com tivo.comTranco rank 5712 | 62 | No | 32 | |
| tenjin.com tenjin.comTranco rank 5716 | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| clickadu.net clickadu.comTranco rank 5754 | 73 | No | 31 | |
| boingboing.net boingboing.netTranco rank 5757 | 40 | Gated | 14 | |
| gameinstaller.ru gameinstaller.ruTranco rank 5758 | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| amplify.com amplify.comblockedTranco rank 5772; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| aqsi.ru aqsi.ruTranco rank 5790 | 35 | Gated | 1 | |
| cretaforce.gr cretaforce.grTranco rank 5826 | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| caliente.mx caliente.mxTranco rank 5830 | 47 | No | 32 | |
| pagesix.com pagesix.comTranco rank 5836 | 60 | No | 1 | |
| 9to5mac.com 9to5mac.comTranco rank 5844 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| telangana.gov.in telangana.gov.inTranco rank 5846 | 72 | No | 32 | |
| cio.com cio.comTranco rank 5897 | 62 | No | 32 | |
| idc.com idc.comTranco rank 5902 | 60 | No | 1 | |
| galaxydata.ru galaxydata.ruTranco rank 5912 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| parentsquare.com parentsquare.comTranco rank 5959 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| motherjones.com motherjones.comTranco rank 5977 | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| castbox.fm castbox.fmTranco rank 5993 | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| giga.de giga.deTranco rank 5994 | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| admixer.net admixer.comTranco rank 6002 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| pointclickcare.com pointclickcare.comTranco rank 6024 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| up.pt up.ptTranco rank 6045 | 67 | No | 32 | |
| illumin.com illumin.comTranco rank 6055 | 51 | No | 32 | |
| loggly.com loggly.comTranco rank 6060 | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| taboolanews.com taboolanews.comTranco rank 6089 | 63 | Gated | 1 | |
| inquirer.net inquirer.netTranco rank 6090 | 41 | Gated | 31 | |
| nic.fr afnic.frTranco rank 6124 | 67 | No | 32 | |
| denverpost.com denverpost.comTranco rank 6131 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| govdelivery.com granicus.comTranco rank 6133 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| accompany.com accompany.comTranco rank 6170 | 59 | No | 1 | |
| wpzoom.com wpzoom.comTranco rank 6172 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| gfk.com nielseniq.comTranco rank 6175 | 73 | No | 32 | |
| xvideosputaria.com xvideosputaria.comTranco rank 6185 | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| taylorfrancis.com taylorfrancis.comblockedTranco rank 6203; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| altibox.no altibox.noTranco rank 6216 | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| mastiraja.com mastiraja.ioblockedTranco rank 6217; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| thisisdax.com global.comTranco rank 6219 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| sbnation.com sbnation.comTranco rank 6221 | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| niceincontact.com nice.comTranco rank 6231 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| evidon.com rezolve.comblockedTranco rank 6248; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| byjus.com byjus.comTranco rank 6250 | 59 | No | 1 | |
| dpreview.com dpreview.comblockedTranco rank 6259; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| superbthemes.com superbthemes.comblockedTranco rank 6260; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| controlup.com controlup.comTranco rank 6265 | 29 | Gated | 1 | |
| sarkariresult.com sarkariresult.comblockedTranco rank 6283; not measured: HTTP 403 (CloudFront) | — | No | — | |
| thenation.com thenation.comTranco rank 6287 | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| swissinfo.ch swissinfo.chTranco rank 6301 | 53 | No | 32 | |
| techsmith.com techsmith.comTranco rank 6324 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| yoast.com yoast.comTranco rank 6333 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| bluecava.com bluecava.comTranco rank 6339 | 58 | No | 1 | |
| wwd.com wwd.comTranco rank 6342 | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| themeansar.com themeansar.comTranco rank 6355 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| kamababax.com mykamababa.comTranco rank 6356 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| smartrecruiters.com smartrecruiters.comTranco rank 6358 | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| lolpol2.com lolpol2.comTranco rank 6361 | 66 | No | 1 | |
| porngangg.com porngangg.comTranco rank 6375 | 65 | No | 17 | |
| ilpost.it ilpost.itTranco rank 6402 | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| sport1.de sport1.deTranco rank 6406 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| india.com india.comTranco rank 6421 | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| ixigo.com ixigo.comblockedTranco rank 6432; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| go-vip.net wpvip.comTranco rank 6439 | 58 | No | 32 | |
| ghostery.com ghostery.comTranco rank 6451 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| sandiegouniontribune.com sandiegouniontribune.comTranco rank 6494 | 56 | No | 32 | |
| gsu.edu gsu.edublockedTranco rank 6506; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| iscorp.com iscorp.comTranco rank 6533 | 67 | Gated | 32 | |
| eater.com eater.comTranco rank 6546 | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| utk.edu utk.eduTranco rank 6548 | 52 | No | 32 | |
| vistarsagency.com vistarsagency.comTranco rank 6566 | 55 | No | 31 | |
| d-zone.ca cira.cablockedTranco rank 6575; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| infoworld.com infoworld.comTranco rank 6621 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| theintercept.com theintercept.comTranco rank 6639 | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| videoamp.com videoamp.comTranco rank 6652 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| catchthemes.com catchthemes.comTranco rank 6654 | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| hosttech.ch hosttech.chTranco rank 6661 | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| datagrail.io datagrail.ioTranco rank 6683 | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| icm.edu.pl icm.edu.plTranco rank 6713 | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| jfrog.io jfrog.comTranco rank 6717 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| the-sun.com the-sun.comTranco rank 6720 | 55 | Gated | 1 | |
| futurism.com futurism.comTranco rank 6724 | 50 | No | 1 | |
| goo-net.com goo-net.comTranco rank 6726 | 35 | Gated | 1 | |
| spacedaily.com spacedaily.comTranco rank 6744 | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| punchng.com punchng.comTranco rank 6750 | 58 | No | 28 | |
| akc.org akc.orgblockedTranco rank 6769; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| hostnet.nl hostnet.nlTranco rank 6772 | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| biobiochile.cl biobiochile.clTranco rank 6821 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| icims.com icims.comTranco rank 6844 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| vivaldi.com vivaldi.comTranco rank 6868 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| 24.hu 24.huTranco rank 6924 | 46 | No | 32 | |
| sofi.com sofi.comblockedTranco rank 6977; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| beeg.porn beeg.pornTranco rank 7039 | 63 | No | 13 | |
| lithium.com khoros.aiunreachableTranco rank 7071 | — | No | — | |
| pair.com pair.comTranco rank 7078 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| researchnow.com dynata.comTranco rank 7090 | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| unirioja.es unirioja.esblockedTranco rank 7099; not measured: HTTP 429 (rate limited) at every rate tried, after 4 attempts | — | No | — | |
| northeastern.edu northeastern.eduTranco rank 7107 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| nme.com nme.comTranco rank 7119 | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| kathimerini.gr kathimerini.grTranco rank 7120 | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| 91mobiles.com 91mobiles.comblockedTranco rank 7121; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| ctrls.in ctrls.comTranco rank 7123 | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| webmotors.com.br webmotors.com.brblockedTranco rank 7124; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — |
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