Is this website running WordPress?
WordPress is the easiest platform to fingerprint because it leaves paths, a generator tag and a REST endpoint in plain sight. Run the detector above on any URL, or check the signals yourself below.
By LemAudit Editorial · Research teamLast reviewed
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Open the CMS detector →How to tell a site is on WordPress by hand
- Asset paths containing /wp-content/ or /wp-includes/ in the page source
- <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 6.x"> — present unless a plugin strips it
- A JSON response at /wp-json/ (the REST API, enabled by default)
- /xmlrpc.php returning a 405 rather than a 404
- Theme stylesheets under /wp-content/themes/<theme-name>/style.css
What WordPress means for SEO
- Plugin sprawl is the usual performance problem: each plugin can enqueue its own CSS and JS on every page, which is what pushes Largest Contentful Paint past 2.5s.
- Two SEO plugins installed at once (Yoast plus Rank Math, for example) frequently emit duplicate canonical and Open Graph tags.
- Category and tag archives are indexable by default and often produce thin duplicate listings.
- Attachment pages — one URL per uploaded image — are still enabled on many older installs and bloat the index.
- Uncompressed uploads: WordPress serves whatever was uploaded unless an optimisation plugin intervenes.
A free SEO audit checks all of the above on the live site and ranks the findings by impact.