22 September 2026
Citability of 148 of the most visited sites
We scanned 148 homepages. The median citability score was 50 out of 100.
Method
On 22 September 2026, 200 hostnames were drawn at random from the Kikobeats top-sites list. The stored sample id is tranco-top10k-2026-09-22. FixFlow 1.1 scored each homepage and honoured robots.txt. 148 returned a score. 52 did not. The median and the deciles below are of the 148 that scored, not of the 200 drawn.
Sample
- Drawn
- 200
- Scored
- 148
- Unscored
- 52
- Minimum
- 5
- Median
- 50
- Maximum
- 94
27 of the 148 scored homepages were under 30. That rounds to 18.2 percent. The scale runs to 100.
Deciles
Deciles of the 148 scored homepages on 22 September 2026.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 25.7 |
| 20th | 32.4 |
| 30th | 38.1 |
| 40th | 45 |
| 50th | 50 |
| 60th | 54 |
| 70th | 58 |
| 80th | 62 |
| 90th | 68.3 |
Failure breakdown
Of the 52 hostnames that did not score, the recorded counters were HTTP 29, robots.txt 18, and other 2. Those counters sum to 49. 3 of the 52 unscored hostnames have no recorded cause. The sum is not a partition of the 52.
| HTTP | 29 |
| robots.txt | 18 |
| Other | 2 |
| Recorded sum | 49 |
| Unscored, no recorded cause | 3 |
| Unscored | 52 |
llms.txt, six days later
On 28 September 2026, GET /llms.txt was sent to each of the 148 scored origins. The client was FixFlow/1.1, the timeout was 8 seconds, and redirects were followed. 28 final responses were HTTP 2xx. 118 were another status. 2 requests failed before a status. 28 of 148 rounds to 19 percent. 120 of 148 rounds to 81 percent. The count is the status code, not a reading of the body.