[The Census](https://readinessindex.io/census) [Q4 2026](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4) United Kingdom United Kingdom # Census Q4 2026: United Kingdom 43,585 organizations · 31,156 scanned · Index 12.1, in effect 2026-10-21 · generated 2026-11-06 Region - [United States](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4) - [United Kingdom](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk) - [Canada](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/ca) - [Compare regions](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/compare) Complete, with gaps ## 31,156 of 43,585 organizations returned a score. The run is finished. The other 419 refused the scanner, timed out, or failed outright, and no further attempt is coming. Every share below is out of what was actually scanned, never out of the cohort size. That a site cannot be read at all is itself a result. Coverage 31,156 scanned · 419 unreachable Median score 55 across 31,156 scored sites Middle half 49–61 spread around the median Scored 31,156 of 43,585 organizations Turned us away 13% blocked the scanner, and are not scored Who was scanned ## The United Kingdom census, by kind of organization Each is measured on its own, and none is added to another: a figure across them would describe whichever has the most sites. ### [Government](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/government) - [UK Central Government Sites](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/government/central) uk-central-government median 58 · 412 of 476 scored - [UK and Devolved Parliament Members](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/government/parliaments) uk-parliaments median 60 · 421 of 965 scored - [UK Devolved Government Sites](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/government/devolved) uk-devolved-governments median 63 · 159 of 250 scored - [UK Councils](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/government/councils) uk-councils median 61 · 320 of 382 scored ### [Education](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/education) - [UK Universities and Higher Education Providers](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/education/universities) uk-universities median 59 · 368 of 460 scored - [UK Further Education Colleges](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/education/further-education) uk-fe-colleges median 60 · 226 of 284 scored - [England's Multi-Academy Trusts](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/education/academy-trusts) uk-academy-trusts median 56 · 258 of 1,203 scored - [UK Schools](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/education/schools) uk-schools median 55 · 23,504 of 29,692 scored ### [Healthcare](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/healthcare) - [UK NHS Trusts, Health Boards and Hospital Groups](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/healthcare/nhs) uk-nhs median 61 · 223 of 306 scored - [UK GP Practices](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/healthcare/gp-practices) uk-gp-practices median 54 · 4,399 of 7,901 scored ### [Financial services](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/financial-services) - [UK Banks, Building Societies and Credit Unions](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/financial-services/banks) uk-banks median 57 · 124 of 666 scored ### [Nonprofits](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/nonprofits) - [UK Charities](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/uk/nonprofits/charities) uk-charities median 58 · 742 of 1,000 scored Government ## Government, by level Every government site in the Census as one figure, with the same sites split by the level of government beneath it. A site with no website on record, one we could not reach and one that turned us away are counted in the first column and never in a median. | Level | Sites | Scored | Median and spread | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **All government** | 2,051 | 1,293 | **median 60** | | National | 1,125 | 784 | median 59 | | Devolved | 547 | 191 | median 62 | | Municipal | 379 | 318 | median 61 | What gated means **Gated** means a site failed RCH-1 or RCH-2: it blocks AI crawlers outright, so nothing else about it can be reached. The score is capped rather than averaged away, because a site nothing can read is not partly ready. Where the failures are ## The tests almost nobody passes The share is out of the sites each test actually applied to. A test that was N/A for a site isn’t counted against it, and the count is shown so a share with a small denominator can’t masquerade as a sector finding. Universal — nobody passes these 5 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more | Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [ACT-3](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-ACT-3) | If you have a public API, is it described in a standard file? | 100.0% | 15 | 2 | | [EXT-11](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-11) | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 100.0% | 31156 | 0 | | [EXT-12](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-12) | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 100.0% | 31156 | 0 | | [EXT-16](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-16) | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 100.0% | 31156 | 0 | | [EXT-17](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-17) | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 100.0% | 30939 | 0 | Near-universal — 95% and above 11 checks · 5 of them worth 2 points or more | Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [EXT-14](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-14) | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 99.9% | 29491 | 0 | | [RED-10](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-RED-10) | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 99.8% | 26297 | 2 | | [RED-12](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-RED-12) | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 99.8% | 31154 | 2 | | [EXT-2](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-2) | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 99.7% | 2592 | 0 | | [EXT-7](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-7) | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 99.7% | 718 | 0 | | [UND-2](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-2) | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 99.5% | 31156 | 3 | | [UND-1](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-1) | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 99.3% | 31145 | 2 | | [UND-5](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-5) | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 99.3% | 25050 | 1 | | [PST-2](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-PST-2) | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 97.8% | 31156 | 0 | | [UND-10](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-10) | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 97.6% | 31145 | 2 | | [EXT-1](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-1) | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 96.7% | 31156 | 0 | Common — 90 to 95% 6 checks · 1 of them worth 2 points or more | Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [EXT-13](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-13) | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 94.4% | 31156 | 0 | | [PST-4](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-PST-4) | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 94.2% | 31156 | 0 | | [EXT-4](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-4) | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 93.4% | 31156 | 0 | | [EXT-15](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-EXT-15) | Can an AI agent find out how to sign in to your site? | 93.3% | 15 | 0 | | [RED-11](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-RED-11) | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 91.1% | 45 | 1 | | [UND-6](https://readinessindex.io/tests#row-UND-6) | Are your published and updated dates honest and visible? | 90.7% | 31156 | 6 | Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score. [Show all tests →](https://readinessindex.io/tests) The data ## The data, and how to license it Every site row carries the SHA-256 of the result behind its score, recorded when the scan finished rather than computed now, so a number on this page traces to a file, and that file to a run. | File | What is in it | | --- | --- | | [summary.json](https://readinessindex.io/census/2026-Q4/data/summary.json) | The headline figures on these pages, including the band distributions and the N/A reasons the tables above summarize. It holds nothing about a named site. | | [Site-by-site data](https://readinessindex.io/license#the-census-data) | Each site’s score and results, every cohort’s rows. Look any site up on these pages. A bulk copy is licensed from TEN7 for a fee: [hello@readinessindex.io](mailto:hello@readinessindex.io). | Cite as Readiness Index Census Q4 2026, TEN7, scored against Index 12.1 (2026-10-21). Headline figures **CC BY 4.0**; site-by-site data **TEN7 Census License** Generated **2026-11-06** See [the Census methodology](https://readinessindex.io/census/methodology) and [the licence](https://readinessindex.io/license).