June 28, 2026
15 min read
We cross-referenced 78,490 gambling sites against SEO, AEO, EEAT, accessibility, readability, and privacy grades. Gambling passes technical SEO at 12.1% — six times the web average — and AI-answer optimization at 14.2%, nearly ten times the web. It also beats the web on trust and accessibility. The one place it cuts corners: privacy, despite collecting identity and payment data. Here's why the most ad-restricted industry online is also the most optimized.
March 30, 2026
17 min read
We classified 1.32 million HTTP requests across 14,828 unique user agents. Human browsers are down to 24.8% of traffic. The category mix has inverted since first publication: HTTP libraries (curl, Go, Python) and crawlers now tie for the lead at roughly a third each, while desktop browsers fell to 21.9% and AI crawlers — though still growing in volume — saw their share roughly halve to 7.3%. Full breakdown by category, browser, OS, and crawler operator, triangulated against Imperva and Cloudflare.
March 12, 2026
16 min read
We graded 3.34 million websites on privacy compliance — consent banners, privacy and cookie policies, CCPA opt-out links, and tracker behavior. Only 37.0% pass (grades A-C) and 62.0% fail outright. Shopping leads at 60.6%; Computer & Electronics trails at 22.8%. Shopify's hosted defaults top every platform while Squarespace lags. And strong SEO barely predicts strong privacy.
March 09, 2026
15 min read
We re-analyzed 220,000+ government, education, and health sites — the sectors covered by the DOJ's ADA Title II web rule — across WCAG, EEAT, SEO, readability, and privacy. The April 2026 compliance deadline was extended to April 2027 days before it landed, and the data shows why: just 28% earn a clean WCAG pass, nearly 40% score F, and all three sectors fail two-to-one. We also correct an earlier finding — Health does not lead these sectors on trust; it now trails them at the lowest EEAT of the three.
March 05, 2026
18 min read
We graded 3.3 million websites for AI citation readiness (AEO). Just 1.5% pass — 98.5% are structurally invisible to answer engines. Gambling leads at 14.2% (nine times the web), Finance is quietly second at 4.5%, and the industry that builds the web — Computer & Electronics — trails at 0.6%. Shopify-built and Cloudflare-fronted sites pass three-to-five times the average, Vietnamese content leads every language, and the data exposes a hard disconnect: only 8.7% of the web's most-trusted (EEAT-A) sites are citation-ready. Trust and citability are different capabilities.
March 02, 2026
15 min read
We ranked 16 industries across SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, readability, and privacy using aggregate data from LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. Finance leads discovery. Shopping is the trust, readability, and privacy champion. Entertainment builds the most accessible sites. Law & Government remains the least readable corner of the web. Every sector has a blind spot — here's the data, refreshed against a dataset that has more than doubled.
March 02, 2026
17 min read
We cross-referenced 71,700 news and media sites against SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, readability, and privacy. News leads the web on trust signals (EEAT 56.3% vs 45.4%) but trails on accessibility (34.7% vs 43.8%, down from 43.9% at first publication — nearly half score F) and readability, and only 1.7% pass SEO. Negative-sentiment content runs 2.3x the web rate. The sector with the strongest on-page credibility signals is failing the public exactly as trust in news hits a record low of 37%.
March 01, 2026
19 min read
We cross-referenced 15+ JavaScript frameworks, static-site generators, and CMS platforms against SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, readability, and privacy grades across LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. At full scale the 'React paradox' collapses: React is mid-pack on SEO (2.1%) and below average on accessibility (32.4%), not the outlier the first small sample suggested. What holds: rendering strategy and platform era predict discoverability — static-site generators and Ghost lead SEO, modern pre-rendered output beats client-only SPAs roughly 2-to-1, and the 299,000-site jQuery-era web trails almost everywhere.
March 01, 2026
17 min read
We mapped the technology stack of LLMSE's 3.4-million-site index and applied published carbon models to it. WordPress powers 31.6% of the index; static site generators — the lightest-weight, lowest-emission architecture in the models — power just 1.7% combined, roughly 19 WordPress sites for every static-generator site. Apache leads the server layer at 29.2% (not Cloudflare). Every CO2e figure here is a modeled estimate drawn from the Sustainable Web Design Model v4, the IEA, and HTTP Archive — and across every layer of the stack, the lighter, greener option is the one almost no one chooses.
March 01, 2026
19 min read
We recomputed seven quality dimensions across 33,422 dedicated e-commerce platform sites in LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. Shopify now leads trust (EEAT 91.8%), privacy (76.9%) and AI-answer optimization (6.0%) — yet trails the web on classic SEO and accessibility. WooCommerce leads SEO (3.8%), Magento leads accessibility (41.2%), and OpenCart writes the web's most readable product pages (72.3%) while ranking almost nowhere (0.2% SEO). No platform wins everything — and the leaders all flipped as the index more than doubled.