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WordPress AI readiness statistics

In November 2026, we could only tell which sites run on WordPress where our scanner could read the page, so this page covers those sites and says nothing about how many turned our scanner away.

Updated 16:07 UTC · November 2026

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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How WordPress sites land

Every page we read gets a score out of 100, the number at the top of its report (how scoring works). Each row is a range of scores. Where too few sites score in the lowest ranges, they are joined into one row.

  • 91–100 47%
  • 0–90 53%
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ScoreShare of sites
91–10047%
0–9053%

A platform is only detectable on a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the WordPress sites we could read.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

Better or worse

Not enough history yet.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

AI access

  • robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers 10%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 2%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers10%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers2%

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

What WordPress sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “A machine-readable published / updated date” (73%, against 10% of all sites); “Open Graph tags for sharing” (62%, against 23% of all sites); “This page declares its canonical URL” (94%, against 59% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no WordPress site we could read passed.

Every check, WordPress against all sites

Share of sites that pass each check, over the sites the check applies to. The Gap column is the difference in percentage points between the two shares; a dash means not enough sites yet.

Check WordPress sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection >99% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 85% 95% −10 points
No mixed (insecure) content 97% 99% −2 points
Core security headers are set 9% 8% +1 point
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 69% 94% −25 points
security.txt is published 4% 4% Level
Reached without a redirect chain 100% 99% +1 point
Caching or validation headers are set 63% 95% −32 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 83% 87% −4 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 95% 91% +4 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 97% 99% −2 points
This page declares its canonical URL 94% 59% +35 points
Mobile viewport is set 86% 94% −8 points
Has a title tag 100% >99% Level
Title fits a search snippet 56% 58% −2 points
Has a meta description 72% 88% −16 points
Description fits a search snippet 78% 65% +13 points
The page has an H1 70% 86% −16 points
Logical heading order 52% 63% −11 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 53% 64% −11 points
Images have descriptive alt text 91% 95% −4 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 99% 99% Level
Open Graph tags for sharing 62% 23% +39 points
Twitter/X card tags 65% 75% −10 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 77% 75% +2 points
Missing pages return a real 404 79% 94% −15 points
Images are optimised 35% 13% +22 points
Language and charset declared 99% 85% +14 points
hreflang for language variants 100% 99% +1 point
Analytics is installed 75% 76% −1 point
Search Console / Bing verification 67% 81% −14 points
A favicon is set 97% 99% −2 points
No meta-refresh redirect 99% >99% −1 point
Your content survives without JavaScript 100% 97% +3 points
Your answer is in the HTML >99% 96% +4 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 35% 30% +5 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 53% 50% +3 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks >99% 94% +6 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 37% 55% −18 points
Section headings are phrased as questions 24% 22% +2 points
Reading the page is affordable for a machine — 76% —
No hidden text written for an AI model — 99% —
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed — 52% —
The links in llms.txt resolve — 91% —
Author / publisher is clear 75% 50% +25 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 73% 10% +63 points
llms.txt is present and valid 29% 28% +1 point
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 1% 4% −3 points
Structured data is present 87% 56% +31 points
Structured data is valid 98% 97% +1 point
FAQ / Q&A schema 51% 46% +5 points
Organization schema with sameAs 42% 33% +9 points
Right schema type for the page 95% 94% +1 point
Schema facts also appear in the page text 34% 57% −23 points
Breadcrumb structured data — 28% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 86% 92% −6 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 99% 99% Level
Your page arrives quickly 73% 97% −24 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 14% 13% +1 point
Content usage preferences declared 6% 4% +2 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 1% 1% Level
No broken links 68% 87% −19 points
Links don't point at redirects 68% 93% −25 points
Descriptive anchor text >99% 99% +1 point
Sensible internal/external link mix 98% 96% +2 points
Links are real links 82% 93% −11 points
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) — — —
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — — —
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — — —
Page weight and render-blocking — — —
MCP Server Card 0% 1% −1 point
AI catalog 0% 1% −1 point
A2A Agent Card 0% <1% Level
WebMCP tools in the page 0% <1% Level
AI usage preferences (Content-Usage) 0% <1% Level
Licensing terms for AI (RSL) 0% <1% Level
Text-and-data-mining reservation (TDMRep) 0% <1% Level
Markdown version linked from the page 1% 1% Level
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 0% 1% −1 point
API catalog 0% 1% −1 point
OAuth authorization-server metadata 8% 3% +5 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 8% 2% +6 points
OpenID Connect discovery 2% 2% Level
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — 7% —
Auth.md agent registration 0% <1% Level
AI discovery via DNS 0% <1% Level

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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