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 09, 2026
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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
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.
March 01, 2026
17 min read
We cross-referenced 29,398 Information & Network Security sites against SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, readability, and privacy grades from LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. The industry that sells trust and being-found trails the web on exactly those two things: EEAT (trust) at 20.5% — 55% below the web's 45.4% — and SEO at 1.0%, about half the web rate. The original's one bright spot, accessibility, is gone: WCAG failures jumped from 20.8% to 43.7% as the sample grew, putting InfoSec at or below the web. Brand safety is the only clean win at 100%.
March 01, 2026
17 min read
We cross-referenced ~1.06M WordPress sites against SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG, readability, privacy, and brand-safety grades in LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. The CMS that owns 41.9% of the web and 91% of plugin vulnerabilities scores above the web average on all six quality dimensions. Its EEAT pass rate is 59.8% vs 45.4% web-wide — and even on the strictest A+B trust bar it leads 31.0% to 21.5%. Cloudflare-fronted WordPress passes SEO at 3.5x the nginx rate; Vietnamese and Turkish WordPress optimize hardest of all.
March 01, 2026
16 min read
We cross-referenced ~123,000 education websites — K-12, colleges, universities, online learning, assessment, and language learning — against SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, readability, and privacy grades from LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. Education sits at or above the web average on five of six dimensions, including trust (EEAT 59.5% vs 45.4%), but trails on readability (23.3% vs 32.8%). The deficit is worst exactly where you'd least expect it: colleges (12.4%), universities (11.3%) and postgraduate programs (8.8%) write the sector's hardest-to-read content. The tagged audience is 84.1% female.