When you operate an SEO audit API, you end up with a strange vantage point. You don't see the full web — you see whatever sites people are bothering to check. That sample is biased: agencies running their client roster, developers wiring up CI checks, builders auditing their own pages. It is not a random crawl of the internet.
But it is a fairly honest cross-section of the sites that someone, somewhere, cared enough about to audit. And after running roughly 8,000 audits, the patterns are remarkably consistent.
Here's what we're seeing.
Most sites land in the same narrow band
The single most surprising finding wasn't about a specific issue. It was about how little spread there is in scores.
