wordpress.com scored 74/100 on AI Readiness.
Audited April 10, 2026 as part of our State of AI Crawlers 2026 scan. wordpress.com ranks #2 out of the 100 sites we measured, which places it in the top decile. Here is the category breakdown, the specific gaps our scanner found, and what a re-scan today would change.
What AI bots see on wordpress.com
The most consequential signal a site sends to AI systems is its robots.txt policy for the four bots that actually drive citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Here is what our scan found:
| gptbot | allowed_by_default |
| claudebot | allowed_by_default |
| perplexity | allowed_by_default |
| google extended | allowed_by_default |
Specific recommendations for wordpress.com
Each item below is derived from the actual scan data, not a generic checklist. Running the listed tool directly will validate the fix.
- MEDIUMStructured data coverage is the highest-ROI lever for sites above score 60. Article + FAQPage + Organization schema on the homepage pushes most sites 10+ points.Inspect existing JSON-LD →
- LOWRe-run the full scan any time by entering wordpress.com in the AI Readiness Checker. The score updates as soon as the changes are pushed to production.Open in the AI Readiness Checker →
Sites ranked near wordpress.com
Look at what the direct neighbours did differently. Pages with similar scores tend to have similar strengths and gaps.
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