How many websites pass the Security Secret Exposure check?

Based on 488 audited sites · Updated 2026-07-16

77.9%of audited sites pass this check

95% confidence interval: 74%–81.3%

What To Do Next

22.1% of audited sites need attention on security secret exposure (108 of 488 sites are warning or failing).

Prioritize security secret exposure 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 77.9% 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.

77.9%pass(380)

21.9%warn(107)

0.2%fail(1)

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

How different industries perform on this check.

81.5% of audited Technology sites pass this check (n=232), compared with 71.4% of Travel & Hospitality sites (n=49).

credible samples first · then pass rateshown-industry average 78.8%

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
Technology	81.5%	72	232
Finance & Banking	75%	72.8	32
Media & Entertainment	73.2%	73.8	71
Travel & Hospitality	71.4%	74.8	49
Other	100%	67	5limited
Government	92.3%	73.1	13limited
Education	90.5%	71.8	21limited
Healthcare	80%	76.7	5limited
Food & Beverage	71.4%	71.1	7limited
E-Commerce	68.2%	69.6	22limited

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