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Education & research AI readiness statistics

In November 2026, we could only place a site in an industry where our scanner could read the page, so this page covers Education & research sites we could read 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 Education & research 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.

  • 81–90 35%
  • 0–80 43%
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ScoreShare of sites
81–9035%
0–8043%

An industry is only known for a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the Education & research 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 6%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 0%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers6%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers0%

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 Education & research sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Reading the page is affordable for a machine” (94%, against 84% of all sites); “Images are optimised” (27%, against 22% of all sites); “Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description” (52%, against 47% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Education & research site we could read passed.

Every check, Education & research 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.

Check Education & research sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 99% >99% −1 point
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 80% 88% −8 points
No mixed (insecure) content 97% 99% −2 points
Core security headers are set 18% 15% +3 points
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 93% 90% +3 points
security.txt is published 8% 6% +2 points
Reached without a redirect chain 99% 98% +1 point
Caching or validation headers are set 94% 92% +2 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 82% 86% −4 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 75% 79% −4 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 100% 99% +1 point
This page declares its canonical URL 49% 64% −15 points
Mobile viewport is set 83% 85% −2 points
Has a title tag 100% 99% +1 point
Title fits a search snippet 40% 42% −2 points
Has a meta description 71% 82% −11 points
Description fits a search snippet 47% 55% −8 points
The page has an H1 63% 63% Level
Logical heading order 51% 60% −9 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 52% 47% +5 points
Images have descriptive alt text 81% 82% −1 point
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 100% 97% +3 points
Open Graph tags for sharing 45% 48% −3 points
Twitter/X card tags 56% 62% −6 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 57% 60% −3 points
Missing pages return a real 404 83% 85% −2 points
Images are optimised 27% 22% +5 points
Language and charset declared 91% 94% −3 points
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 64% 61% +3 points
Search Console / Bing verification 66% 68% −2 points
A favicon is set 91% 89% +2 points
No meta-refresh redirect 99% 99% Level
Your content survives without JavaScript 86% 89% −3 points
Your answer is in the HTML 85% 86% −1 point
Buttons, links and fields have names 49% 50% −1 point
Semantic HTML landmarks 45% 53% −8 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 73% 78% −5 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 50% 51% −1 point
Section headings are phrased as questions 25% 22% +3 points
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 94% 84% +10 points
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% 100% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed 53% 57% −4 points
The links in llms.txt resolve — 93% —
Author / publisher is clear 34% 38% −4 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 12% 13% −1 point
llms.txt is present and valid 8% 15% −7 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 6% 9% −3 points
Structured data is present 35% 45% −10 points
Structured data is valid — 97% —
FAQ / Q&A schema — 36% —
Organization schema with sameAs 9% 16% −7 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 83% 83% Level
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 88% 94% −6 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 8% 19% −11 points
Content usage preferences declared 2% 5% −3 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 0% 2% −2 points
No broken links 88% 89% −1 point
Links don't point at redirects 82% 85% −3 points
Descriptive anchor text 100% >99% Level
Sensible internal/external link mix 88% 88% Level
Links are real links 78% 81% −3 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) 1% <1% +1 point
Text-and-data-mining reservation (TDMRep) 1% <1% +1 point
Markdown version linked from the page 0% 1% −1 point
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 0% 1% −1 point
API catalog 0% 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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