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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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.