AI crawlers allowed
20/20 pts
robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
AI Readiness Report
How visible wordpress.com is to AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, based on a technical scan of crawler access, structured data, and citation signals.
Summary
wordpress.com has an AI Readiness score of 75/100, placing it at Maturity Level 3: Retrievable. The site was scanned on April 27, 2026 across 7 technical signals that influence whether AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude can discover, parse, and cite content from wordpress.com.
Maturity Level 3
Based on 75 out of 100 points across 7 technical signals that influence whether AI engines can discover, parse, and cite wordpress.com.
Content-level signals were checked on: https://wordpress.com/domains/blog/
20/20 pts
robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
10/10 pts
A valid /llms.txt file is served at the root.
15/15 pts
JSON-LD Organization or LocalBusiness markup is present on the homepage.
0/15 pts
Content pages lack JSON-LD Article markup. AI engines may struggle to attribute and quote the content.
Fix: Add JSON-LD Article with headline, datePublished, author, and publisher to blog/article templates.
15/15 pts
JSON-LD FAQPage markup found.
0/10 pts
Content pages have no Person schema with a verifiable identity (sameAs link or author bio URL).
Fix: Add JSON-LD Person to article authors with sameAs link to LinkedIn or other verifiable profile.
15/15 pts
A Sitemap: directive in robots.txt points to the sitemap.xml file.
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Maturity model →
The 5-level framework behind this score.
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How wordpress.com compares to the top 500.
wordpress.com scored 75 out of 100 on the Appearly AI Readiness scan, placing it at Maturity Level 3 (Retrievable).
Yes. robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
Yes. A valid /llms.txt file is served at the root.
Yes. JSON-LD Organization or LocalBusiness markup is present on the homepage.
No. Content pages lack JSON-LD Article markup. AI engines may struggle to attribute and quote the content. Add JSON-LD Article with headline, datePublished, author, and publisher to blog/article templates.
Yes. JSON-LD FAQPage markup found.
No. Content pages have no Person schema with a verifiable identity (sameAs link or author bio URL). Add JSON-LD Person to article authors with sameAs link to LinkedIn or other verifiable profile.
Yes. A Sitemap: directive in robots.txt points to the sitemap.xml file.
Appearly scans up to 8 pages per domain (homepage, robots.txt, /llms.txt, sitemap, and a discovered content page) to evaluate 7 signals weighted from 10 to 20 points each. The maturity model maps total score to one of 5 levels: Invisible (0), Discoverable (1), Indexable (2), Retrievable (3), Cited (4).
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