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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.
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.
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.
We graded 3.34 million websites against automated WCAG 2.1 Level A checks. The web's accessibility pass rate is 43.8%, but 38% earn an outright F and only 14.4% a clean A. Entertainment and reference sites lead; Shopping and Productivity are majority-F. And your CMS predicts your score — Plone and Squarespace clear 53-68%, Weebly just 15%. Here's the aggregate accessibility gap, by category and by platform.