Comment Comment by modernerd The test is likely to be under-reporting WordPress installations as it stands.The script seems to detect a WordPress site by looking for a meta generator tag containing WordPress:https://github.com/tanrax/calculate-wordpress-usage/blob/5aa...It's pretty common to remove that meta tag — popular WordPress theme frameworks like Genesis do it by default.A more reliable test would be to look for additional strings in the source that point to the use of WordPress, such as “wp-content” and “wp-includes”.A faster way that avoids string searches would be to send an HTTP head request to `/wp-login.php` and check for:Set-Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie(/wp-login.php doesn't always appear in the root directory and it's not always accessible to all IPs, but that setup is most common). parent modernerd 7 years ago
The script seems to detect a WordPress site by looking for a meta generator tag containing WordPress:
https://github.com/tanrax/calculate-wordpress-usage/blob/5aa...
It's pretty common to remove that meta tag — popular WordPress theme frameworks like Genesis do it by default.
A more reliable test would be to look for additional strings in the source that point to the use of WordPress, such as “wp-content” and “wp-includes”.
A faster way that avoids string searches would be to send an HTTP head request to `/wp-login.php` and check for:
Set-Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie
(/wp-login.php doesn't always appear in the root directory and it's not always accessible to all IPs, but that setup is most common).