How many websites pass the Content Depth check?

Based on 585 audited sites · Updated 2026-07-16

90.1%of audited sites pass this check↓1.3% vs last month

95% confidence interval: 87.4%–92.3%

About This Check

Checks whether the page has sufficient content depth for AI systems to extract meaningful information.

Why This Matters

LLM Discoverability

Deep, comprehensive content gives AI systems more raw material to form accurate, nuanced responses; thin content is systematically down-ranked or excluded from AI answer pools.

SEO Impact

Content depth correlates strongly with topical authority, Google's primary long-term ranking mechanism; comprehensive pages earn more backlinks and rank for more keyword variants.

What To Do Next

9.9% of audited sites need attention on content depth (58 of 585 sites are warning or failing).

Prioritize content depth on templates that create many URLs, because one template fix can improve a large share of content answerability.
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 90.1% pass rate as a benchmark: if your site fails here, passing the check moves it closer to the visible majority of crawlable, AI-readable pages.

Status Breakdown

90.1%pass(527)

9.9%warn(58)

0%fail(0)

Compliance Trend

Daily pass, warning, and failure rates across benchmark snapshots (up to 90 days).

Industry Breakdown

How different industries perform on this check.

95.9% of audited Travel & Hospitality sites pass this check (n=49), compared with 87.6% of Technology sites (n=274).

credible samples first · then pass rateshown-industry average 90.3%

Industry pass rates, average audit scores, and sample sizes. A marker in each pass-rate bar shows the weighted average across the displayed industries.
Industry	Pass rate	Avg score	Sites
Travel & Hospitality	95.9%	74.8	49
Finance & Banking	94.7%	72.8	38
Media & Entertainment	90.2%	73.8	82
Education	90%	71.8	30
Technology	87.6%	72	274
Government	100%	73.1	14limited
Healthcare	100%	76.7	9limited
Automotive	100%	75.6	5limited
Professional Services	100%	80.8	4limited
Retail	100%	78.3	3limited

Related Checks

Run a free audit to see whether your site passes this check, or browse the leaderboard and the audited-sites directory.