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AI readiness of wordpress.com: 100/100

100/100

We checked wordpress.com on 2026-10-18 with our free checker: six scored tests plus evidence for each finding. The score reflects the site on that date. The site may have changed after that date.

Test	Result	Points
llms.txt	Yes	15 of 15
JSON-LD schema on the homepage	Yes	20 of 20
Meta description	Yes	10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScript	Yes	20 of 20
Sitemap	Yes	10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt	8 of 8	25 of 25

Compared with Website builders

wordpress.com ranks 9 of 18 website builders sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 98.5. 10 of 18 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

ImproveJSON-LD: 1 block, types Organization, ImageObject, PostalAddress, Person, QuantitativeValue, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebPage

Person is missing recommended url.

Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.

ImproveServer responded in 1053 ms

Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://wordpress.com/

Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.

ImproveHTML size 334 KB, 33 script tags

0 render-blocking scripts in <head>

Fix: Large HTML slows crawlers and tools with size limits. Move inline data and scripts out of the HTML.

18 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /typo/?subdomain=
Disallow: /read/
Disallow: /*/read/
(34 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

Passllms.txt found and well formed

First line: "# WordPress.com". 8 ## sections, 26 links, 7355 bytes.

NoteNo llms-full.txt

GET /llms-full.txt returned 404.

Fix: Optional: publish /llms-full.txt with the full text of key pages for tools that want more than a map.

PassTitle, 56 characters

<title>WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website</title>

PassMeta description, 159 characters

content="Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: WordPress, Your Way
og:description: Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.
og:image: https://s1.wp.com/i/featured/hp-2024-jul.jpg

PassCanonical link set

<link rel="canonical" href="https://wordpress.com/">

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>WordPress, done right</h1>

Pass5,606 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website Products Resources Support Pricing Log in Get started Menu Build Website Ecommerce AI website builder …"

PassSitemap found, 1 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://wordpress.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://wordpress.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.

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Scoring: llms.txt 15, JSON-LD 20, meta description 10, readable text 20, sitemap 10, AI crawler access 25. Want this page changed or removed? Email [email protected].

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