AI-built sites
Are people putting sites built with AI on the web?
Contributes to: Is it being used to build?. Signal score: 17 / 100. Relative weight within this question: 0.25.
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.
Observed trend
Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent per month.
Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent per month. · 2025-12 – 2026-09
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| Period / observation | Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent per month. |
|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 2,137 |
| 2026-01 | 2,367 |
| 2026-02 | 2,788 |
| 2026-03 | 3,210 |
| 2026-04 | 4,056 |
| 2026-05 | 4,746 |
| 2026-06 | 5,361 |
| 2026-07 | 6,215 |
| 2026-08 | 6,630 |
| 2026-09 | 6,768 |
What it measures
- Metric
- Crawled sites built on Lovable and Emergent, latest month
- Solved if
- Most new sites get built by AI
- Signal score
- 17 / 100. 3.2 times the sites of December 2025, against a goal of 1,000 times. Counts a quarter as much as other signals here. How it is scored
- Status rule
- Growing when more sites are detected than three months before.
What is happening to WordPress
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.
- 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.
Update history
The reading on each date we checked, separate from the historical observations above.
| Date | Value | Year over year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 6,768 | — | Growing |
| 2026-11-01 | 6,768 | — | Growing |
Source
| Source | Role | Measures | Latest data |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP Archive | Scored measurement | Sites built on AI builders, and each website platform's share of crawled sites | 2026-09 |