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Benchmarks - how the average site scores
Anonymised aggregates from SearchScore's audited sample. All benchmarks →
13.5%
Across 347,988 websites audited by SearchScore in August 2026, 13.5% block GPTBot in their robots.txt and 7.83% block OAI-SearchBot. Of the sites blocking GPTBot, 42.6% allow OpenAI search.
347,988 websites
68.2%
Across the Q3 2026 SAVI index panel of 102,873 websites, weighted, 68.2% of websites publish no Organisation schema, the JSON-LD AI engines use to verify who is behind a site, and 55.7% publish no JSON-LD at all.
102,873 websites (Q3 2026 SAVI index panel, weighted)
72.4%
In the Q3 2026 SAVI signal sample of 20,000 recent audits on the current engine (August 2026), 72.4% of websites publish no llms.txt, the emerging standard for describing key content directly to AI crawlers.
20,000 websites (Q3 2026 SAVI signal sample)
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
45.24/100
Across the 102,873-site SAVI index panel (wave 1, 1 August 2026) the weighted mean GEO score is 45.24 out of 100, sitting below the 50 mark that separates weak from workable AI visibility.
102,873-site SAVI index panel
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
52.8/100
A benchmark of more than 150 Greater London accountancy firms found an average GEO score of 52.8 out of 100, with only four firms scoring above 70.
150+ Greater London accountancy firms
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