How many websites pass the Browser Render Overlap check?
Based on 3,040 audited sites · Updated 2026-08-13
At a Glance
95% confidence interval: 54.7%–58.2%
Current cross-sectional baseline. Historical snapshots remain stored but are not presented as performance change.
About This Check
Compares text available in fetched HTML with text retained after a real browser render. Large divergence can indicate a shell, replacement content, or rendering failure.
What To Do Next
43.5% of audited sites need attention on browser render overlap (1,323 of 3,040 sites are warning or failing).
- Prioritize browser render overlap on templates that create many URLs, because one template fix can improve a large share of the relevant audit section.
- After changing the page, re-run the audit and compare the observed value for this check instead of relying on visual inspection alone.
- Use the 56.5% pass rate as a benchmark: if your site fails here, passing the check moves it closer to the majority of crawlable, AI-readable pages.
Industry Breakdown
How different industries perform on this check.
72% of audited Media & Entertainment sites pass this check (n=518), compared with 27.6% of E-Commerce sites (n=123).
| Industry | Pass rate | Avg score | Evaluated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media & Entertainment | 72% | 71.2 | n=518/518 |
| Marketing & Advertising | 68.8% | 74.8 | n=93/93 |
| Other | 67.1% | 70.5 | n=73/73 |
| SaaS & Cloud | 64.1% | 77 | n=323/323 |
| Finance & Banking | 61.9% | 73 | n=97/97 |
| Healthcare | 56.5% | 74.5 | n=46/46 |
| Non-Profit | 56.4% | 75.3 | n=55/55 |
| Education | 54.3% | 75.6 | n=199/199 |
| Technology | 54% | 70.7 | n=880/880 |
| Gaming | 53.7% | 67.7 | n=123/123 |
n is sites evaluated for this check / audited sites in that industry. Informational or inapplicable results are not counted.
Run a free audit to see whether your site passes this check, or browse the leaderboard and the audited-sites directory.
Key Insight
The largest gaps are content metadata and trust signals: only 7% to 11% of sites include visible or structured dates, testimonials or case studies, and cleanly organized rendered DOMs. In this baseline, core security and server configuration checks are universally met, while page-level content quality and machine-readable publishing signals are much less consistent.