Posts tagged "research"

35 posts found.

March 09, 2026 12 min read

The ADA Title II Countdown: Are Government, Education, and Healthcare Sites Ready for the April 2026 Deadline?

We analyzed 123,262 websites across government, education, and healthcare — the three sectors most affected by the ADA Title II web accessibility deadline on April 24, 2026. Only 33.6% pass WCAG. Education has the worst failure rate at 34.9%. University websites pass at just 30.7%. With 46 days until the deadline and 5,500+ projected accessibility lawsuits in 2026, two-thirds of the public-serving web isn't ready.

March 09, 2026 13 min read

The COPPA 2.0 Readiness Report: How 16,000 Children's Websites Score on Safety, Accessibility, and Trust

We analyzed 16,213 children's websites — from early childhood education to kids' shopping to children's TV — across WCAG accessibility, EEAT trust, readability, GARM brand safety, and tracking technology adoption. 69.5% fail basic accessibility checks. Children's clothing sites have an 11.8% WCAG pass rate and a 58.8% failure rate. Virtually no children's sites (0.01%) use a consent management platform. With the COPPA 2.0 compliance deadline 44 days away and five states enforcing age-appropriate design codes, the children's web is not ready.

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 05, 2026 11 min read

The AI Citation Readiness Gap: Which Industries Are Prepared for AI Search?

We analyzed 180,432 websites across 29 industries for AI citation readiness using AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) grades. Only 2.7% pass. Gambling leads at 16.9% while Music, Events, and Reference score near zero. 97.3% of the web is structurally invisible to AI answer engines. The industries investing in citation-ready content today will own the zero-click future. Everyone else is optimizing for a search paradigm that's already disappearing.

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 02, 2026 9 min read

The Payment Security Stack: What 3,200 Websites Reveal About Payment Infrastructure

We analyzed 3,224 websites with detected payment providers and cross-referenced them with SEO, EEAT, WCAG, server, DNS, and mail infrastructure data. PayPal sites are 69% gambling. Stripe sites run on nginx and enterprise DNS. Square sites serve traditional businesses on Apache. Your payment provider choice correlates with your entire infrastructure profile — and your quality grades.

March 01, 2026 14 min read

The JavaScript Framework Effect: How React, Angular, Next.js, and Astro Impact Website Quality

We analyzed 160,000+ websites across 15 JavaScript frameworks, static site generators, and CMS platforms, then cross-referenced them with SEO, EEAT, WCAG, and readability grades. Ghost blogs have a 10.4% SEO pass rate — 5x the web average. React sites have the best WCAG accessibility but the worst SEO. And jQuery — still on 113,000 sites — underperforms everywhere.

Page 1 of 4 Older →