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Wave 2026-10 · measured 26 Oct 2026 · engine 6.9

AI Readiness Benchmark

This is a ranking of named homepages, measured under the same rules on the same days, by how prepared they are for AI answers. It says who is eligible and ready — not who is cited; nobody can measure that without querying the engines at scale.

Every site that refused the fetch is listed with its reason, because a refusal is a finding.

Sites scored

65of 93 attempted

Median AI Readiness

50Needs work

Median SEO Health

79Good

Sectors published

3of 3

What our benchmark found

These are findings from Maveriko’s own benchmark: 65 named homepages, all measured under one engine on 26 Oct 2026.

  • The median homepage scored 79 for SEO Health but 50 for AI Readiness: a 29-point gap between readiness for search and readiness for AI answers.
  • 62 of 65 (95%) did not open every section with a direct answer.
  • 17 (26%) blocked, in robots.txt, a crawler that AI answer engines depend on, and 7 more restricted them in part, shutting out only the training crawlers or closing some paths.
  • 15 (23%) had no JSON-LD structured data that parsed.
  • News & media homepages had the widest gap, 81 for SEO Health against 46 for AI Readiness (35 points). Global SaaS had the narrowest, at 16 points.
  • 22 of 93 homepages (24%) served a bot challenge instead of the page to our published crawler, which an AI engine’s crawler may meet too.

Sectors

A sector is published only when at least 20 of its sites were scored, so no median rests on a handful of rows.

SectorScoredMedian AI ReadinessMedian SEO HealthLeads on AI Readiness
Global SaaS20 of 216480ClickUp (76)
E-commerce20 of 365076Gymshark (71)
News & media25 of 364681ProPublica (64)

How the benchmark was measured

Wave 2026-10 is one pass of the Maveriko engine, version 6.9, over 93 named homepages on 26 Oct 2026.

  • Global SaaS: 21 named homepages, with the rule they were chosen by published on the sector page.
  • E-commerce: 36 named homepages, with the rule they were chosen by published on the sector page.
  • News & media: 36 named homepages, with the rule they were chosen by published on the sector page.

We fetched each homepage once. We skipped any site whose robots.txt disallowed our crawler, and we recorded a site that served a bot challenge or did not answer with that reason instead of a score. 65 of 93 sites received a score.

How to read this

Ready, not cited

AI Readiness is whether a page is structurally prepared to be retrieved and quoted. It is not a count of citations, which no tool can take without querying the engines repeatedly.

A skipped site is a finding

A site that asked us not to is honoured; one that served a bot challenge or did not answer gets no score. All three are published with the reason, never dropped to flatter a median.

One engine, one wave

Every row was measured under engine 6.9. Scores are not comparable across engine versions, so a future wave is compared only against the same engine.

Where would you rank?

Your homepage is one audit away from the same two scores, measured the same way. The report also shows where you stand against every site scanned on Maveriko. Free, no sign-up.

Sources

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