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title: "WordPress Emoji Script Usage: 36.3% Still Load It - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-emoji-script-usage
description: "36.3% of top 1M WordPress homepages (44,785 of 123,500) still load wp-emoji-release.min.js, an optional script most sites don't need."
lang: en
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WordPress Emoji Script Usage: 36.3% Still Load It (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-emoji-script-usage)

36.3% of top 1M WordPress homepages (44,785 of 123,500) still load wp-emoji-release.min.js, an optional script most sites don't need.

WordPress homepages loading the emoji script, by site popularity

Top 10K (759) 24.2%

Top 100K (8,138) 31.8%

Rest of top 1M (114,603) 36.7%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive top 1M crawl, Sept 2026, mobile.

WordPress means homepages requesting any /wp-content/ or /wp-includes/ file.

Source: WordPress Emoji Script Usage: 36.3% Still Load It - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-emoji-script-usage)