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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 11:07 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.

All sites on the State of the Web

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.

Not enough sites yet There are not enough sites yet to split them by score.

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 29%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 5%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers29%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers5%

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” (60%, against 13% of all sites); “Structured data is present” (79%, against 45% of all sites); “Analytics is installed” (86%, against 61% 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 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 83% 88% −5 points
No mixed (insecure) content 98% 99% −1 point
Core security headers are set 14% 15% −1 point
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 71% 90% −19 points
security.txt is published 5% 6% −1 point
Reached without a redirect chain 100% 98% +2 points
Caching or validation headers are set 71% 92% −21 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 81% 86% −5 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 86% 79% +7 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 100% 99% +1 point
This page declares its canonical URL 81% 64% +17 points
Mobile viewport is set 93% 85% +8 points
Has a title tag 98% 99% −1 point
Title fits a search snippet 49% 42% +7 points
Has a meta description 71% 82% −11 points
Description fits a search snippet — 55% —
The page has an H1 62% 63% −1 point
Logical heading order 62% 60% +2 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 45% 47% −2 points
Images have descriptive alt text 93% 82% +11 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 97% 97% Level
Open Graph tags for sharing 50% 48% +2 points
Twitter/X card tags 62% 62% Level
XML sitemap is present and referenced 64% 60% +4 points
Missing pages return a real 404 88% 85% +3 points
Images are optimised 37% 22% +15 points
Language and charset declared 100% 94% +6 points
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 86% 61% +25 points
Search Console / Bing verification 69% 68% +1 point
A favicon is set 100% 89% +11 points
No meta-refresh redirect 100% 99% +1 point
Your content survives without JavaScript 100% 89% +11 points
Your answer is in the HTML 98% 86% +12 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 39% 50% −11 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 64% 53% +11 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 95% 78% +17 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources — 51% —
Section headings are phrased as questions — 22% —
Reading the page is affordable for a machine — 84% —
No hidden text written for an AI model — 100% —
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed — 57% —
The links in llms.txt resolve — 93% —
Author / publisher is clear 62% 38% +24 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 60% 13% +47 points
llms.txt is present and valid 12% 15% −3 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 5% 9% −4 points
Structured data is present 79% 45% +34 points
Structured data is valid 100% 97% +3 points
FAQ / Q&A schema — 36% —
Organization schema with sameAs 31% 16% +15 points
Right schema type for the page 78% 69% +9 points
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 53% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 13% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 69% 83% −14 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 91% 94% −3 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 33% 19% +14 points
Content usage preferences declared 5% 5% Level
Resource-discovery Link headers 0% 2% −2 points
No broken links 83% 89% −6 points
Links don't point at redirects 80% 85% −5 points
Descriptive anchor text 98% >99% −2 points
Sensible internal/external link mix 98% 88% +10 points
Links are real links 61% 81% −20 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% −1 point
WebMCP tools in the page 0% 2% −2 points
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 0% 1% −1 point
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 0% 1% −1 point
API catalog 0% 1% −1 point
OAuth authorization-server metadata 0% 4% −4 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 0% 4% −4 points
OpenID Connect discovery 0% 4% −4 points
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — — —
Auth.md agent registration 0% 1% −1 point
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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