What's the state of play - and what to do next
A live view over the SearchScore Knowledge Operating System and its benchmark data. Every tile links into the method behind it. To see these numbers for your site, run a free audit.
Benchmarks - how the average site scores
Anonymised aggregates from SearchScore's audited sample. All benchmarks →
6.9%
Roughly 1 in 14 sites block a major AI crawler such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot in their robots.txt, usually by accident.
~6,944 websites
52.2%
More than half of audited sites publish no Organization structured data, the JSON-LD AI engines use to verify who is behind a site.
~6,944 websites
69.7%
Roughly 7 in 10 sites publish no llms.txt, the emerging standard for describing key content directly to AI crawlers.
~6,944 websites
63.6%
Nearly 2 in 3 scored audits fall below 50 out of 100 on the SearchScore GEO score, the line separating weak from workable AI visibility.
688,551 scored audits
0.05%
Just 321 of 688,551 scored audits reach a GEO score of 80 or above, the AI-Ready tier.
688,551 scored audits
43.2/100
Across the live corpus the mean GEO score is 43.2 out of 100, sitting below the 50 mark that separates weak from workable AI visibility.
688,551 scored audits
34/100
SearchScore's State of AI Visibility Index reads 34/100 for Q2 2026, down from 41.4 in Q1 as the audited dataset reached deeper into the long tail.
850,000+ website audits
850,000+
The published SAVI corpus covers more than 850,000 website audits, each scored against 250+ signals across 8 weighted GEO categories.
850,000+ websites
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- 25
- Frameworks
- 30
- Patterns
- 50
- Decisions
- 58
- Guides
- 489
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