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Eleventy AI readiness statistics

In November 2026, we could only tell which sites run on Eleventy where our scanner could read the page, so this page covers those sites and says nothing about how many turned our scanner away.

Updated 11:07 UTC · November 2026

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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How Eleventy sites land

Every page we read gets a score out of 100, the number at the top of its report (how scoring works). Each row is a range of scores. Where too few sites score in the lowest ranges, they are joined into one row.

Not enough sites yet There are not enough sites yet to split them by score.

A platform is only detectable on a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the Eleventy sites we could read.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

Better or worse

Not enough history yet.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

AI access

  • robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers 13%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 5%
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How Eleventy sites treat AI crawlers
What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers13%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers5%

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

What Eleventy sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Semantic HTML landmarks” (93%, against 53% of all sites); “Images are optimised” (48%, against 22% of all sites); “The page has an H1” (89%, against 63% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Eleventy site we could read passed.

Every check, Eleventy against all sites

Share of sites that pass each check, over the sites the check applies to. The Gap column is the difference in percentage points between the two shares; a dash means not enough sites yet.

Eleventy sites against all sites: share passing each check
Check Eleventy sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 93% 88% +5 points
No mixed (insecure) content 100% 99% +1 point
Core security headers are set 16% 15% +1 point
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 98% 90% +8 points
security.txt is published 7% 6% +1 point
Reached without a redirect chain 98% 98% Level
Caching or validation headers are set 98% 92% +6 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 89% 86% +3 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 71% 79% −8 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 96% 99% −3 points
This page declares its canonical URL 58% 64% −6 points
Mobile viewport is set 98% 85% +13 points
Has a title tag 98% 99% −1 point
Title fits a search snippet 39% 42% −3 points
Has a meta description 89% 82% +7 points
Description fits a search snippet 63% 55% +8 points
The page has an H1 89% 63% +26 points
Logical heading order 71% 60% +11 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 69% 47% +22 points
Images have descriptive alt text 87% 82% +5 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 100% 97% +3 points
Open Graph tags for sharing 64% 48% +16 points
Twitter/X card tags 75% 62% +13 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 55% 60% −5 points
Missing pages return a real 404 89% 85% +4 points
Images are optimised 48% 22% +26 points
Language and charset declared 98% 94% +4 points
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 56% 61% −5 points
Search Console / Bing verification 51% 68% −17 points
A favicon is set 93% 89% +4 points
No meta-refresh redirect 100% 99% +1 point
Your content survives without JavaScript 98% 89% +9 points
Your answer is in the HTML 100% 86% +14 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 62% 50% +12 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 93% 53% +40 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 96% 78% +18 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 65% 51% +14 points
Section headings are phrased as questions 19% 22% −3 points
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 100% 84% +16 points
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% 100% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed 64% 57% +7 points
The links in llms.txt resolve — 93% —
Author / publisher is clear 45% 38% +7 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 20% 13% +7 points
llms.txt is present and valid 16% 15% +1 point
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 4% 9% −5 points
Structured data is present 25% 45% −20 points
Structured data is valid — 97% —
FAQ / Q&A schema — 36% —
Organization schema with sameAs 11% 16% −5 points
Right schema type for the page — 69% —
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 53% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 13% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 84% 83% +1 point
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 96% 94% +2 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 18% 19% −1 point
Content usage preferences declared 5% 5% Level
Resource-discovery Link headers 4% 2% +2 points
No broken links 91% 89% +2 points
Links don't point at redirects 84% 85% −1 point
Descriptive anchor text 100% >99% Level
Sensible internal/external link mix 96% 88% +8 points
Links are real links 89% 81% +8 points
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) — — —
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — — —
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — — —
Page weight and render-blocking — — —
MCP Server Card 0% 1% −1 point
AI catalog 0% 1% −1 point
A2A Agent Card 0% 1% −1 point
WebMCP tools in the page 0% 2% −2 points
AI usage preferences (Content-Usage) 0% <1% Level
Licensing terms for AI (RSL) 0% <1% Level
Text-and-data-mining reservation (TDMRep) 0% <1% Level
Markdown version linked from the page 0% 1% −1 point
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 0% 1% −1 point
API catalog 2% 1% +1 point
OAuth authorization-server metadata 0% 4% −4 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 0% 4% −4 points
OpenID Connect discovery 0% 4% −4 points
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — — —
Auth.md agent registration 0% 1% −1 point
AI discovery via DNS 0% <1% Level

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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