XML-RPC Statistics 2026: 76.0% of WordPress Sites Advertise It

    76.0% of top 1M WordPress homepages (86,494 of 113,804) link to xmlrpc.php in a link tag, and 25.7% still send a pingback link.

    WordPress homepages linking to xmlrpc.php, by site popularity
    Top 10K65%
    Top 100K70.4%
    Rest of top 1M76.4%

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

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    Source: XML-RPC Statistics 2026: 76.0% of WordPress Sites Advertise It - PageSpeed Matters