March 01, 2026
16 min read
One year into European Accessibility Act enforcement, we mapped automated WCAG accessibility across ~947,000 sites in 21 EU official languages, cross-referenced against six quality dimensions in LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. EU sites pass WCAG at 42.7% — no better than the 43.8% global web average, so the EAA has produced no measurable accessibility premium yet. A North-South divide persists: Finland leads at 53.9%, Bulgaria trails at 27.5%. EU sites also beat the web on SEO, trust and privacy, but lag on AI-answer optimization.
February 26, 2026
18 min read
We recomputed web-server market share and per-server quality across 3.17 million sites with a detected Server header in LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. Apache leads at 29.2%, nginx follows at 26.3%, and Cloudflare is third at 19.6% — the big three still hold ~75%. But quality tracks the platform, not the protocol: modern deploy platforms (Vercel, Netlify) pass SEO ~5x more often than the legacy stack, website builders win accessibility, LiteSpeed is the WordPress server, and Cloudflare carries 7x the gambling traffic of Apache or nginx. Your server predicts your quality because it proxies who built the site.
February 25, 2026
21 min read
We graded twelve CMS and web platforms — from WordPress's 1.06M-site empire to Ghost's niche — across six quality dimensions using LLMSE's 3.4M-URL index. Shopify now tops trust (91.8%), readability (52.5%), AEO (6.0%), and privacy (76.9%); static generators lead SEO and accessibility; Joomla collapses on discovery. WordPress beats the web average on every dimension yet leads none — it is the median platform. CMS choice predicts the shape of a site's quality, not whether its SEO works.
February 25, 2026
18 min read
We cross-referenced 3.1 million classified URLs across 17 content languages against SEO, AEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, readability, privacy, and sentiment grades. Dutch sites carry the strongest trust signals — ahead of English. Vietnamese sites have the best SEO. Japanese builds the most accessible web. And cross-language readability scores are a measurement artifact, not a ranking. Here's the data, refreshed against an index that has more than doubled.
February 25, 2026
16 min read
We classified 3.36 million sites by target-audience gender and cross-referenced them with 58 content categories and six quality dimensions. 55% of gender-tagged web content targets men and 27.5% targets women — yet female-targeted content scores markedly higher on trust (EEAT 52.7% vs 43.7%), privacy, and brand safety. Two original claims are corrected: the male accessibility edge and the male 'Bad'-sentiment gap have both vanished.
February 24, 2026
16 min read
We graded 3,337,318 URLs on AEO — how ready content is to be extracted and cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews. Only 1.5% pass; 88.8% score an outright F, and just 68 sites web-wide earn an A. The web's AEO grades are a cliff, not a curve. Gambling is the most ready category (14.2%); Computer & Electronics — the industry that builds the web — is among the least (0.6%). Here's what the AEO score measures, and why almost nobody passes it.