30.8% of Website Homepages Have No Meta Description vs 15.1% of the Top 1,000 Sites

    30.8% of website homepages have no meta description, the short summary Google can show under a link in search results. Among the 1,000 most visited websites the rate is 15.1%, half as often, and the drop appears only at the very top of the web.

    Share of homepages with no meta description by site popularity
    Top 1,000 sites
    15.1%
    Top 10,000 sites
    17.5%
    Ranked 10,000 to 1 million
    30.1%
    Outside the top million
    30.8%
    All homepages
    30.8%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 14,718,128 mobile homepages · HTTP Archive and Google Lighthouse, September 2026

    Source: 30.8% of Website Homepages Have No Meta Description vs 15.1% of the Top 1,000 Sites - Suff Digital