15.2% of the Top 500,000 Websites Skip the Page Language Tag Screen Readers Need

    15.2% of the 500,000 most visited websites never tell browsers what language their homepage is in, more than the 12% that are not set up for phone screens. 14.1% of all website homepages have no favicon, and 4.8% of the top 500,000 support dark mode.

    Share of homepages by check on the same homepages
    No page language
    15.2%
    No viewport set to screen width
    12%
    No viewport tag at all
    7.1%
    Has dark mode styles
    4.8%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 384,602 homepages of the 500,000 most visited websites, 15,456,162 homepages for favicons and 25,708 US small business homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and US Google Business Profiles, September 2026

    Top 10,000 websites by template check
    No page language
    12.3%
    No viewport set to screen width
    11.5%
    No viewport tag at all
    5.3%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 384,602 homepages of the 500,000 most visited websites, 15,456,162 homepages for favicons and 25,708 US small business homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and US Google Business Profiles, September 2026

    No favicon by platform
    Shopify
    18.8%
    All platforms
    15.2%
    WordPress
    10.3%
    Webflow
    0.7%
    Squarespace
    0.3%
    Wix
    0%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 384,602 homepages of the 500,000 most visited websites, 15,456,162 homepages for favicons and 25,708 US small business homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and US Google Business Profiles, September 2026

    Share by site popularity
    Top 10,000
    11.1%
    10k to 100k
    6.1%
    100k to 500k
    4.4%
    All top 500,000
    4.8%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 384,602 homepages of the 500,000 most visited websites, 15,456,162 homepages for favicons and 25,708 US small business homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and US Google Business Profiles, September 2026

    Fail the viewport check by group
    10,000 most visited websites
    11.5%
    500,000 most visited websites
    12%
    US web design agency homepages
    14.4%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 384,602 homepages of the 500,000 most visited websites, 15,456,162 homepages for favicons and 25,708 US small business homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl and US Google Business Profiles, September 2026

    Source: 15.2% of the Top 500,000 Websites Skip the Page Language Tag Screen Readers Need - Suff Digital