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title: WordPress: what agents find on the sites built with it · The Direct IndexWordPress, day by dayWordPress: sites in the index
url: https://directindex.org/builders/wordpress?format=md
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# WordPress: what agents find on the sites built with it

36,926 business websites in the index are built with WordPress. They score 58% on average; 29% score A or B; 19% turn an AI crawler away at the edge; 45% take a booking or an order on their own domain.

36,926

sites in the index

58%

average Agent-Direct Score

29%

score A or B

45%

take a booking or an order directly

 Findings

## What the scanner finds on WordPress sites

| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 19% |
| Block an AI crawler in robots.txt | 1% |
| Almost no text without JavaScript | 4% |
| Structured data for the business | 50% |
| Menu or price list as HTML | 40% |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 2% |

Every [guide](https://directindex.org/guides) says where the fix lives on WordPress when it is one of the builders it covers.

 Over time

## WordPress, day by day

| Day | Sites | Avg score | A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-15 | 36,926 | 58% | 29% |
| 2026-10-14 | 35,830 | 57% | 26% |

One row a day since 2026-10-14, from the daily recount over the latest scan of every site; the chart gains a point a day.

 Where

## Cities with the most WordPress sites

[London](https://directindex.org/city/london) 991 · [Berlin](https://directindex.org/city/berlin) 910 · [Paris](https://directindex.org/city/paris) 864 · [London cafes and bars](https://directindex.org/city/london-cafes-bars) 784 · [Hamburg](https://directindex.org/city/hamburg) 754

 Examples

## Best-scoring WordPress sites

| [&pizza](https://directindex.org/r/andpizza.com) washington | **A** 100% |
| [ABSteak](https://directindex.org/r/absteaksf.com) San Francisco | **A** 100% |
| [Agora](https://directindex.org/r/agorarestaurants.net) washington | **A** 100% |
| [Aki](https://directindex.org/r/akilondon.com) London | **A** 100% |
| [Albufera](https://directindex.org/r/albufera-boulogne.fr) Paris | **A** 100% |

Computed 2026-10-15 from the latest scan of every business with a website of its own, in every city index; refreshed daily.

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#### For agents

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#### Data

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Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence.

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