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AI-Search Readiness Tracker Every reading of the same panel, figure by figure.

How the top sites describe themselves to AI search: structured data, a sitemap, an llms.txt and text in the HTML, read again on the same panel. Each figure is a count over the pages or sites asked, with the day it was read.

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Readings
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Latest reading
24 October 2026
Panel
9,973 domains, Tranco list N26XW
Licence
CC BY 4.0

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Figures

Each figure, reading by reading.

A figure is a count over the sites or pages read in one reading. The scale starts at zero, and every reading names the number it is a share of.

This tracker holds 1 reading. A figure draws a line once it has a second reading.

  • Describe the organization in JSON-LD

    40.0%

    1,793 of 4,480 home pages read

    Read 24 October 2026 · 1 reading

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    Describe the organization in JSON-LD: 40.0% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research.
    <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker#organization-schema"><img src="https://queryrev.com/data/tracker/ai-search-readiness/organization-schema.svg" width="720" alt="Describe the organization in JSON-LD: 40.0% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research."></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker">AI-Search Readiness Tracker, QueryRev Research</a> (CC BY 4.0)</p>
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    Describe the organization in JSON-LD
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    October 20261,793of 4,480 home pages read40.0%
  • Link outside profiles with sameAs

    28.6%

    1,280 of 4,480 home pages read

    Read 24 October 2026 · 1 reading

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    Link outside profiles with sameAs: 28.6% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research.
    <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker#organization-same-as"><img src="https://queryrev.com/data/tracker/ai-search-readiness/organization-same-as.svg" width="720" alt="Link outside profiles with sameAs: 28.6% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research."></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker">AI-Search Readiness Tracker, QueryRev Research</a> (CC BY 4.0)</p>
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    October 20261,280of 4,480 home pages read28.6%
  • Carry their main text in the HTML

    80.7%

    3,615 of 4,480 home pages read

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    Carry their main text in the HTML: 80.7% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research.
    <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker#text-in-html"><img src="https://queryrev.com/data/tracker/ai-search-readiness/text-in-html.svg" width="720" alt="Carry their main text in the HTML: 80.7% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research."></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker">AI-Search Readiness Tracker, QueryRev Research</a> (CC BY 4.0)</p>
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    October 20263,615of 4,480 home pages read80.7%
  • Have a valid sitemap

    55.9%

    3,401 of 6,082 sites asked for a sitemap

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    Have a valid sitemap: 55.9% of 6,082 sites asked for a sitemap, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research.
    <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker#sitemap-valid"><img src="https://queryrev.com/data/tracker/ai-search-readiness/sitemap-valid.svg" width="720" alt="Have a valid sitemap: 55.9% of 6,082 sites asked for a sitemap, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research."></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker">AI-Search Readiness Tracker, QueryRev Research</a> (CC BY 4.0)</p>
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    October 20263,401of 6,082 sites asked for a sitemap55.9%
  • Publish an llms.txt

    13.0%

    787 of 6,066 sites asked for an llms.txt

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    Publish an llms.txt: 13.0% of 6,066 sites asked for an llms.txt, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research.
    <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker#llms-txt-found"><img src="https://queryrev.com/data/tracker/ai-search-readiness/llms-txt-found.svg" width="720" alt="Publish an llms.txt: 13.0% of 6,066 sites asked for an llms.txt, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research."></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker">AI-Search Readiness Tracker, QueryRev Research</a> (CC BY 4.0)</p>
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    October 2026787of 6,066 sites asked for an llms.txt13.0%
  • Have all five

    7.8%

    350 of 4,480 home pages read

    Read 24 October 2026 · 1 reading

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    Have all five: 7.8% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research.
    <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker#all-five"><img src="https://queryrev.com/data/tracker/ai-search-readiness/all-five.svg" width="720" alt="Have all five: 7.8% of 4,480 home pages read, read 24 October 2026. Source: QueryRev Research."></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness/tracker">AI-Search Readiness Tracker, QueryRev Research</a> (CC BY 4.0)</p>
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    October 2026350of 4,480 home pages read7.8%

Change log

What each reading found.

The latest reading leads, with the dated files each reading published.

  1. October 2026

    Baseline reading: 9,973 domains of Tranco list N26XW read. Each later reading is compared with this one.

    Files of this reading

Each new reading adds a point to the tracker and a line to the change log. Follow new readings on Substack

Data

Cite, download and reuse.

The data is free to use under CC BY 4.0: copy, share and adapt it, with a credit and a link to the study. The citation is for the latest reading.

Cite this study

APA

QueryRev Research. (2026). AI-Search Readiness of Top Sites, October 2026 [Data set]. QueryRev AI. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23632472

BibTeX

@misc{queryrev2026readiness10,
  author = {QueryRev Research},
  title = {{AI-Search Readiness of Top Sites, October 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {QueryRev AI},
  url = {https://queryrev.com/research/ai-search-readiness},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23632472},
  note = {CC BY 4.0}
}

The same data, mirrored

The same files under the same licence, on three research data hosts. The DOI is the dataset’s permanent address.

DOI10.5281/zenodo.23632472

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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