{
  "notice": "Please credit \"Is software solved?\" and the sources listed in credits when you reuse these numbers. They are our own aggregates. For original records, go to each source.",
  "id": "ai-built-sites",
  "name": "AI-built sites",
  "question": "Are people putting sites built with AI on the web?",
  "metric": "Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent, latest month",
  "solvedIf": "Most new sites get built by AI",
  "value": "6,768",
  "trend": [
    {
      "label": "2025-12",
      "value": 2137
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-01",
      "value": 2367
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-02",
      "value": 2788
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-03",
      "value": 3210
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-04",
      "value": 4056
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-05",
      "value": 4746
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-06",
      "value": 5361
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-07",
      "value": 6215
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-08",
      "value": 6630
    },
    {
      "label": "2026-09",
      "value": 6768
    }
  ],
  "trendLabel": "Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent per month.",
  "caution": [
    "Two builders stand in for a whole category, and they are only detected from December 2025, so part of the early growth could be detection improving.",
    "The crawl only lists sites with enough Chrome traffic, so most new or small sites are missing, and sites built with AI elsewhere look hand-built.",
    "It counts for a quarter as much as other signals in the score, because its history is short and its base is tiny."
  ],
  "score": 17,
  "scoreReason": "3.2 times the sites of December 2025, against a goal of 1,000 times. Counts a quarter as much as other signals here.",
  "analysis": {
    "title": "What is happening to WordPress",
    "intro": "WordPress is losing share of the web, but this data shows the fall, not its cause, and AI builders are far too small to explain it.",
    "points": [
      "WordPress ran 14.8% of the top 1 million sites in 2026-09, against 17.9% a year earlier.",
      "It ran 31.1% of all crawled sites in 2026-09, against 34.2% a year earlier.",
      "Sites on Lovable and Emergent are 6,768, against 2,714,694 on WordPress."
    ]
  },
  "fromHigh": "At its high",
  "status": "Growing",
  "rule": "Growing when more sites are detected than three months before.",
  "direction": "toward",
  "checks": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-02",
      "value": "6,768",
      "status": "Growing"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-01",
      "value": "6,768",
      "status": "Growing"
    }
  ],
  "url": "/signals/ai-built-sites",
  "api": "/api/signals/ai-built-sites.json",
  "credits": [
    {
      "name": "HTTP Archive",
      "url": "https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/landing",
      "signal": "ai-built-sites",
      "license": "No data license published",
      "credit": "Source: HTTP Archive, httparchive.org. Counts derived from its Technology Report API, which detects technologies with Wappalyzer. No formal data license is published. A maintainer has said on its forum that people are free to use the data, and asked for this citation."
    }
  ]
}