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
63.8%
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.
SearchScore live audit corpus
0.022%
Just 0.022% of scored audits reach a GEO score of 80 or above, the AI-Ready tier.
SearchScore live audit corpus
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.
SearchScore live audit corpus
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.
1,000,000+ website audits
1,000,000+
The published SAVI corpus covers more than 850,000 website audits, each scored against 250+ signals across 8 weighted GEO categories.
1,000,000+ websites
Knowledge coverage
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Top risks
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Method coverage
- 26
- Frameworks
- 31
- Patterns
- 52
- Decisions
- 58
- Guides
- 501
- Total objects