How many websites pass the Text Ratio check?

Based on 596 audited sites · Updated 2026-07-16

29%of audited sites pass this check↑2% vs last month

95% confidence interval: 25.5%–32.8%

About This Check

Checks whether the page has a healthy text-to-HTML ratio. Low ratios suggest thin content that AI systems may skip.

Why This Matters

LLM Discoverability

Pages with a low text-to-HTML ratio (code-heavy, template-heavy) yield little useful text when crawled by AI systems; the signal-to-noise ratio determines whether a page is included in a model's training corpus.

SEO Impact

Google's quality algorithms down-rank thin pages; a healthy text-to-HTML ratio is a proxy for real content depth and signals to Googlebot that there is substantive content to index.

What To Do Next

71% of audited sites need attention on text ratio (423 of 596 sites are warning or failing).

Prioritize text ratio on templates that create many URLs, because one template fix can improve a large share of html extractability & main content clarity.
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 29% 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

29%pass(173)

71%warn(423)

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.

46.7% of audited Education sites pass this check (n=30), compared with 11.9% of Media & Entertainment sites (n=84).

credible samples first · then pass rateshown-industry average 29.3%

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
Education	46.7%	71.8	30
Travel & Hospitality	37.3%	74.8	51
Finance & Banking	30.8%	72.8	39
Technology	29.1%	72	278
E-Commerce	13.3%	69.6	30
Media & Entertainment	11.9%	73.8	84
Telecommunications	100%	75.7	3limited
Professional Services	75%	80.8	4limited
Recruitment & HR	66.7%	80	3limited
Government	64.3%	73.1	14limited

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