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 401–500 of 500 · page 5 of 5
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| powerreviews.com powerreviews.comTranco rank 7131 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| observer.com observer.comTranco rank 7137 | 58 | No | 32 | |
| wordstream.com wordstream.comblockedTranco rank 7155; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| domaintechnik.at domaintechnik.atTranco rank 7167 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| poynter.org poynter.orgunreachableTranco rank 7172 | — | No | — | |
| trevenque.es trevenque.esTranco rank 7174 | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| cmtelematics.com cmtelematics.comunreachableTranco rank 7207 | — | No | — | |
| browserstack.com browserstack.comTranco rank 7210 | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| hotnews.ro hotnews.roTranco rank 7216 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| piwik.pro piwik.proTranco rank 7221 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| vidyard.com vidyard.comTranco rank 7238 | 62 | No | 32 | |
| nami.org nami.orgblockedTranco rank 7254; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| in.gr in.grTranco rank 7284 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| uncn.jp unicorn.incblockedTranco rank 7329; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| nrc.nl nrc.nlTranco rank 7346 | 37 | Gated | 32 | |
| baltimoresun.com baltimoresun.comTranco rank 7350 | 53 | No | 32 | |
| 0123tt.ru 0123tt.ruTranco rank 7357 | 56 | No | 7 | |
| lansweeper.com lansweeper.comblockedTranco rank 7387; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| jqueryui.com jqueryui.comTranco rank 7388 | 65 | No | 9 | |
| outsideonline.com outsideonline.comTranco rank 7407 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| snapp.ir snapp.irTranco rank 7414 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| cryoutcreations.eu cryoutcreations.euTranco rank 7437 | 67 | Gated | 32 | |
| irancell.ir irancell.irTranco rank 7446 | 51 | No | 32 | |
| bling.com.br bling.com.brTranco rank 7466 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| leadsquared.com leadsquared.comblockedTranco rank 7476; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| famethemes.com famethemes.comTranco rank 7490 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| zdbb.net ziffdavis.comTranco rank 7491 | 61 | 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 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| rd.com rd.comTranco rank 7567 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| sbb.rs sbb.rsTranco rank 7592 | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| kabutan.jp kabutan.jpblockedTranco rank 7593; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| lekton.io xn--e1akbkex.xn--p1aiTranco rank 7613 | 70 | No | 13 | |
| theonion.com theonion.comTranco rank 7615 | 45 | No | 32 | |
| statnews.com statnews.comTranco rank 7631 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| admatic.com.tr admatic.com.trTranco rank 7677 | 41 | Gated | 18 | |
| articulate.com articulate.comTranco rank 7678 | 66 | No | 32 | |
| brasil247.com brasil247.comTranco rank 7682 | 71 | No | 32 | |
| kff.org kff.orgTranco rank 7686 | 29 | Gated | 1 | |
| funplus.com funplus.comTranco rank 7700 | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| ucf.edu ucf.eduTranco rank 7746 | 64 | 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 | 49 | No | 32 | |
| ndmais.com.br ndmais.com.brTranco rank 7783 | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| cleverreach.com cleverreach.comTranco rank 7790 | 69 | No | 1 | |
| naftemporiki.gr naftemporiki.grTranco rank 7802 | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| userreport.com userreport.comblockedTranco rank 7804; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| danas.rs danas.rsTranco rank 7814 | 64 | No | 32 | |
| wurflcloud.com scientiamobile.comTranco rank 7851 | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| elfsight.com elfsight.comTranco rank 7859 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| indiewire.com indiewire.comTranco rank 7885 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| sift.com sift.comTranco rank 7890 | 78 | 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 | 48 | Gated | 30 | |
| digitalaudience.io digitalaudience.ioTranco rank 8000 | 61 | No | 9 | |
| allporncomic.com allporncomic.comblockedTranco rank 8018; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| washingtonexaminer.com washingtonexaminer.comTranco rank 8019 | 68 | Gated | 32 | |
| metunic.com.tr metunic.com.trTranco rank 8051 | 61 | No | 32 | |
| tudocelular.com tudocelular.comTranco rank 8057 | 54 | No | 27 | |
| examiner.com examiner.comTranco rank 8062 | 51 | Gated | 24 | |
| elitebabes.com elitebabes.comTranco rank 8072 | 55 | No | 32 | |
| uni-freiburg.de uni-freiburg.deTranco rank 8075 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| fitgirl-repacks.site fitgirl-repacks.siteTranco rank 8081 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| kriesi.at kriesi.atTranco rank 8087 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| catracalivre.com.br catracalivre.com.brTranco rank 8108 | 70 | No | 32 | |
| exlibrisgroup.com exlibrisgroup.comTranco rank 8114 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| cylance.com arcticwolf.comTranco rank 8120 | 53 | No | 32 | |
| misa.vn misa.vnTranco rank 8155 | 57 | No | 32 | |
| javhdporn.net javhdporn.netblockedTranco rank 8171; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| horoscope.com horoscope.comTranco rank 8181 | 57 | 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 | 49 | Gated | 4 | |
| socialmediagirls.com socialmediagirls.comTranco rank 8256 | 56 | 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 | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| clarivate.com clarivate.comTranco rank 8299 | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| onlinekhabar.com onlinekhabar.comTranco rank 8311 | 45 | 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 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| sss.gov.ph sss.gov.phTranco rank 8401 | 67 | No | 32 | |
| newsit.gr newsit.grTranco rank 8403 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| kingofshojo.com kingofshojo.comTranco rank 8412 | 63 | No | 32 | |
| mangaread.org mangaread.orgTranco rank 8419 | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| apkvision.org apkvision.orgTranco rank 8429 | 77 | 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 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| mixnews.lv mixnews.lvTranco rank 8483 | 59 | No | 32 | |
| nefisyemektarifleri.com nefisyemektarifleri.comTranco rank 8504 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| doofinder.com doofinder.comTranco rank 8509 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| g4media.ro g4media.roblockedTranco rank 8510; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| world.co.jp corp.world.co.jpTranco rank 8516 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| anal.media anal.mediaTranco rank 8551 | 59 | 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