68.6% of Website Homepages Have Text That Fails Color Contrast Standards

    68.6% of website homepages have text too faint against its background to meet the accessibility standard for color contrast, making low contrast the most common accessibility failure on the web, more than twice as common as images with no alt text.

    Fail rate by site popularity
    Top 10,000
    62.5%
    10,000 to 1 million
    64.6%
    Outside the top million
    68.8%
    All homepages
    68.6%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 14,613,341 mobile homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and Google's Lighthouse test, September 2026

    Fail color contrast by group
    All homepages
    68.6%
    Websites with an accessibility overlay
    62.6%
    10,000 most visited websites
    62.5%
    US web design agency homepages
    57.1%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 14,613,341 mobile homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and Google's Lighthouse test, September 2026

    Source: 68.6% of Website Homepages Have Text That Fails Color Contrast Standards - Suff Digital