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title: "XML-RPC Statistics 2026: 76.0% of WordPress Sites Advertise It - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/xml-rpc-statistics
description: "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."
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XML-RPC Statistics 2026: 76.0% of WordPress Sites Advertise It (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/xml-rpc-statistics)

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 10K 65%

Top 100K 70.4%

Rest of top 1M 76.4%

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 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/xml-rpc-statistics)