Posts tagged "eeat"

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March 09, 2026 15 min read

The STEM Web: 461 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Websites Reveal the Internet's Trust-Readability Paradox

We analyzed 461 STEM websites — from NASA and CERN to Khan Academy and IEEE — across SEO, EEAT, WCAG, readability, and GARM brand safety dimensions. STEM sites have the highest trust scores on the internet: 50.7% pass EEAT, more than double the web average of 24.5%. But they are also the least readable: only 11.7% pass readability, one-third the web average. Engineering websites have a 0% readability pass rate. The organizations that advance human knowledge can't communicate it clearly on the web.

March 02, 2026 9 min read

The Cross-Industry Quality Report Card: 16 Sectors Ranked Across 1 Million Websites

We ranked 16 industries across SEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, and readability using aggregate data from over 1 million graded websites. Sports leads SEO. Health leads EEAT. Computer & Electronics leads accessibility. Shopping leads readability. Law & Government has the widest gap: best WCAG accessibility but worst readability at 19.2%. Every sector has a blind spot. Here's the data.

March 02, 2026 7 min read

News Media Web Quality: Trust, Readability, and Accessibility Across 40,000 News Sites

We analyzed 39,815 news and media websites across SEO, EEAT, WCAG accessibility, and readability grades. Only 1.6% pass SEO. Newspapers lead trust at 62.2% EEAT but fail accessibility at 35.0% WCAG. Sports news has the best SEO (7.0%) and readability (60.7%) but worst accessibility (22.2%). WordPress powers 42% of news sites and outperforms Medium on every quality metric. The platform that publishes the world's information has a quality problem it hasn't solved.

March 01, 2026 11 min read

The InfoSec Website Paradox: Do Cybersecurity Companies Practice What They Preach?

We analyzed 14,739 cybersecurity websites and cross-referenced them with SEO, EEAT, WCAG, and readability grades. The industry that sells trust and expertise scores 63% below the web average on demonstrating trust and expertise. Only 0.29% pass SEO — worse than the already-dismal web average of 0.48%. WordPress InfoSec sites have the highest EEAT at 22.4%, while the entire sector's 100% male audience targeting raises questions about who cybersecurity content is really designed for.

March 01, 2026 13 min read

The WordPress Paradox: How the Web's Most Attacked CMS Produces Its Highest-Quality Websites

We analyzed 477,550 WordPress sites and compared them against 12 competing CMSes across SEO, EEAT, WCAG, readability, and GARM grades. WordPress's EEAT pass rate is 49.3% — double the web average of 24.5%. Its SEO pass rate is 0.81% — 69% above average. The same plugin ecosystem that creates 97% of CMS vulnerabilities also produces measurably higher-quality websites. Cloudflare-hosted WordPress sites have 2.86% SEO pass rate — 7x nginx. Vietnamese and Turkish WordPress sites pass SEO at 10x the English rate.

February 25, 2026 10 min read

The Healthcare Web: Accessibility and Trust Across 37,000 Sites Before the May 2026 HHS Deadline

We analyzed 37,466 healthcare URLs across WCAG, EEAT, SEO, and Readability. Healthcare sites are trusted but inaccessible: EEAT pass rates beat every industry except Science, while WCAG scores barely match the web average. With the May 11, 2026 HHS deadline 75 days away, the industry writes for doctors but builds for nobody with a disability.