---
title: "68.6% of Website Homepages Have Text That Fails Color Contrast Standards - Suff Digital"
url: https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/website-color-contrast-failure-rate
description: "We turn websites into predictable revenue engines. Web design and SEO that drives revenue, not clicks. Nashville-based, senior US team."
lang: en
---

68.6% of Website Homepages Have Text That Fails Color Contrast Standards (https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/website-color-contrast-failure-rate)

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: 68.6% of Website Homepages Have Text That Fails Color Contrast Standards - Suff Digital (https://www.suffdigital.com/resources/data-studies/website-color-contrast-failure-rate)

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