February 25, 2026
15 min read
We recomputed the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index across three infrastructure layers — web servers, DNS, and email — from 3.17M server headers, 1.66M nameserver records, and 1.05M mail records in LLMSE's index. Only the web-server layer (HHI 2,013) clears the antitrust 'concentrated' line, and that is a software artifact: Apache and nginx are open source. DNS has fallen to a competitive HHI of 947 and email is only moderately concentrated at 1,549. No single provider crosses the DOJ 30% structural-presumption threshold in any layer.
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 mapped the real technology stack across 3.4 million classified sites. Among 3.17M server-tagged sites Apache leads at 29.2%, nginx is second at 26.3%, and Cloudflare — once billed as the new #1 — sits third at 19.6%. WordPress still takes roughly 87% of the self-hosted CMS market, and Astro has overtaken standalone React by deployment count. The server race is a three-way split, not a Cloudflare takeover.
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 scored 3.14 million websites on the GARM brand-suitability dimension. 90.2% are brand-safe (grade A); the non-safe tenth is concentrated in nine content categories that are systematically capped at medium risk (grade B), and the brand-safety floor is 99% Adult content. Here is where ad risk actually lives — and why category blocklists are a blunt instrument.
February 24, 2026
16 min read
We mapped the MX records of 1,051,461 domains with an identified mail provider across LLMSE's index. Google Workspace (28.4%) and Microsoft 365 (26.0%) still form a duopoly, but it has loosened to 54.4% as the crawl broadened. IONOS is now the third-largest provider, bundled hosting email has grown to a quarter of all domains, and ProtonMail has overtaken Fastmail as the privacy leader.
February 24, 2026
16 min read
We graded 3,362,327 websites for technical SEO. Just 1.9% pass (grade A-C), 94.4% score F, and only 0.43% earn an A or B. Gambling leads every industry at 12.1%, modern deploy platforms (Vercel 6.3%) and static-site generators (Astro 4.9%) far outrank WordPress, Apache and nginx, and the web's discovery problem is structural, not a matter of advanced tactics.
February 24, 2026
15 min read
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.
February 24, 2026
13 min read
We cross-referenced 3.36 million EEAT-graded URLs against LLMSE's category index. The web's trust problem isn't mass failure — only 7.3% of sites score F — it's mass mediocrity: 47.3% land at grade D, the single largest band. Shopping leads industries with a 75.4% pass rate; Computer & Electronics, the sector that builds the web, trails every consumer category at 20.3%, with 77% of its sites stuck at D.
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.