§ insights · audit telemetry
What we've learned from auditing the web.
Aggregated AI-readiness signals from 1,798 unique websites, each scored on its most recent audit. As of 2026-08-07.
§ score distribution
How do websites score on AI readiness?
Mean Score
68.7
Median Score
70
Std Deviation
±12.1
mean score over time
Mean AI-readiness score by snapshot date: 2026-07-19: 67.7; 2026-07-20: 67.7; 2026-07-21: 67.8; 2026-07-22: 67.9; 2026-07-23: 68.2; 2026-07-24: 68.2; 2026-07-25: 68.2; 2026-07-26: 68.2; 2026-07-27: 68.1; 2026-07-28: 68.1; 2026-07-29: 68.2; 2026-07-30: 68.5; 2026-07-31: 68.6; 2026-08-01: 68.6; 2026-08-02: 68.5; 2026-08-03: 68.5; 2026-08-04: 68.6; 2026-08-05: 68.8; 2026-08-06: 68.7; 2026-08-07: 68.7.
Current comparable series: Scoring v3, population v1. Earlier snapshots are retained, but are not connected when scoring or population rules differ.
§ industry breakdown
Which industries score the highest?
§ check compliance
Which checks do websites pass most often?
Pass rate per check across all benchmarked sites. Higher is better.
Showing 82 of 82 checks
Page fetch returns 200
n=1798
Page served over HTTPS
n=1798
HTML size reasonable (< 512 KB)
n=1798
Response time < 3 s
n=1798
Rendered DOM is not excessively fragmented
n=1798
Redirect chain ≤ 1 hop
n=1798
Main content is present without running JavaScript
n=1798
Served content remains available after browser rendering
n=1798
Rendered page exposes a clear main-content landmark
n=1798
AI crawlers not blocked
n=1798
AI crawlers can fetch the page
n=1564
robots.txt available
n=1339
robots.txt does not blanket-block all crawlers
n=1339
Meta robots does not block AI
n=642
Meta robots is not noindex
n=642
X-Robots-Tag does not block AI
n=29
X-Robots-Tag set to noindex
n=29
Too few internal links for entity-graph crawling
n=1798
Sitemap available
n=1798
Important navigation is present in served and rendered HTML
n=1640
Internal links use descriptive anchor text
n=1582
Sitemap looks like XML (not HTML)
n=1159
Canonical URL matches site origin
n=1078
Canonical URL matches the current page URL
n=1078
Open Graph URL matches the preferred page URL
n=958
Sitemap URL inventory is internally consistent
n=350
Current page found in sitemap
n=347
Page links toward its parent or site root
n=298
Exactly one H1
n=1798
OpenGraph basics present
n=1798
HTML lang attribute present
n=1798
Title tag present
n=1798
Favicon link present
n=1798
Sufficient on-page text
n=1798
Title and H1 aligned
n=1798
Viewport meta present
n=1798
Canonical URL present
n=1798
Meta description missing
n=1798
Title length reasonable
n=1798
Text-to-HTML ratio reasonable
n=1798
Viewport configured for mobile devices
n=1798
Images have alt text
n=1798
Meta description length reasonable
n=1285
About/Company link present
n=1798
Press / featured-in signals
n=1798
Terms link present
n=1798
Contact link present
n=1798
Privacy policy link present
n=1798
RSS or Atom feed discoverable
n=1798
Third-party scripts use Subresource Integrity
n=1798
Testimonials / case studies signals
n=1798
HTTP security headers missing
n=1798
CORS policy is not dangerously permissive
n=1798
Forms submit over HTTPS
n=1798
No mixed (insecure) content on an HTTPS page
n=1798
Internal paths are not openly accessible
n=1798
Directory listing is disabled
n=1798
Server software versions are not disclosed in headers
n=1798
No API keys or credentials exposed in client-side code
n=1676
Production source maps are not publicly exposed
n=1660
No sensitive files exposed at well-known paths
n=1565
Error pages do not leak stack traces or debug output
n=1496
Cookies use Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite flags
n=920
Hreflang tags for multilingual targeting
n=462
SearchAction schema present (sitelinks search box)
n=375
Speakable schema markup present
n=8
Last-modified date present (schema or meta)
n=1798
Author or byline present (schema, meta, or visible)
n=1798
Publication date present (schema or meta)
n=1798
Visible <time> element with datetime attribute
n=1798
FAQPage schema present for direct answers
n=52
Article or BlogPosting schema present
n=26