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UK Technology and Software AI Readability 2026
As of 1 October 2026, the median UK technology and software site scored 57 out of 100 on the Crane Index™, the measure of how readably a site presents itself to AI engines. Across the 123 sites a machine could read, scores ran from 21 to 88, a 67-point gap between the strongest and the weakest.
What this measures. The score reads how readably a site presents itself to AI engines: entity markup, structured data and machine resolvability. It is not a measure of design, brand or quality. A site can look excellent to a person and still be hard for a machine to read, and a low score is a readability finding, never a judgement on the business.
The field in 2026
The field was led by Dynatrace at 88, with HubSpot next at 80. 16 sites cleared 70 out of 100, and 25 scored below 40.
At the foot of the field sat Fair Isaac (FICO) at 21, Amdocs at 21, VMware at 23. Each is a site a machine struggled to read, not a business doing anything other than well at what it does.
The full 2026 ranking
Composite out of 100, with the three reads behind it: AI Search Readiness (retrieval), Agent Readiness (execution) and Brand Representation.
| Rank | Organisation | Crane Index | Search | Agent | Brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynatracedynatrace.com | 88 | 89 | 94 | 81 |
| 2= | HubSpothubspot.com | 80 | 91 | 83 | 66 |
| 2= | Paycompaycom.com | 80 | 81 | 86 | 74 |
| 4= | GitLababout.gitlab.com | 77 | 75 | 82 | 74 |
| 4= | GlobalFoundriesgf.com | 77 | 82 | 87 | 61 |
| 4= | Guidewire Softwareguidewire.com | 77 | 81 | 86 | 65 |
| 7= | Atlassianatlassian.com | 76 | 81 | 86 | 62 |
| 7= | Nintendonintendo.com/us | 76 | 73 | 89 | 66 |
| 9 | Klaviyoklaviyo.com | 75 | 82 | 89 | 53 |
| 10= | Capgeminicapgemini.com | 74 | 85 | 85 | 53 |
| 10= | Pure Storageeverpuredata.com | 74 | 70 | 83 | 70 |
| 12 | Zoomzoom.com | 73 | 72 | 83 | 65 |
| 13 | CrowdStrikecrowdstrike.com/en-us | 72 | 78 | 91 | 46 |
| 14= | DXC Technologydxc.com | 70 | 68 | 69 | 73 |
| 14= | Juniper Networksjuniper.net | 70 | 75 | 76 | 58 |
| 14= | Match Groupmtch.com | 70 | 76 | 87 | 47 |
| 17= | Appleapple.com | 69 | 64 | 89 | 55 |
| 17= | Qlikqlik.com/us | 69 | 64 | 86 | 58 |
| 17= | Twiliotwilio.com/en-us | 69 | 77 | 85 | 46 |
| 17= | Zebra Technologieszebra.com/us/en.html | 69 | 72 | 62 | 73 |
| 21= | Lam Researchlamresearch.com | 68 | 69 | 90 | 46 |
| 21= | Paychexpaychex.com | 68 | 82 | 72 | 49 |
| 23= | Motorola Solutionsmotorolasolutions.com/en_us.html?geo=redirect | 67 | 59 | 83 | 58 |
| 23= | Oktaokta.com | 67 | 68 | 66 | 66 |
| 25= | Asanaasana.com | 66 | 74 | 66 | 59 |
| 25= | Confluentconfluent.io | 66 | 76 | 63 | 58 |
| 25= | Fortinetfortinet.com | 66 | 64 | 89 | 46 |
| 25= | NICEnice.com | 66 | 75 | 90 | 34 |
| 25= | Procore Technologiesprocore.com | 66 | 79 | 63 | 55 |
| 25= | SolarWindssolarwinds.com | 66 | 68 | 71 | 58 |
| 25= | Zscalerzscaler.com | 66 | 72 | 76 | 51 |
| 32 | Salesforcesalesforce.com/?bc=DB | 65 | 84 | 83 | 28 |
| 33= | Check Point Software Technologiescheckpoint.com | 64 | 74 | 66 | 51 |
| 33= | Cloudflarecloudflare.com | 64 | 60 | 85 | 46 |
| 33= | Dassault Systèmes3ds.com | 64 | 74 | 93 | 25 |
| 36= | Gen Digitalgendigital.com/us/en | 63 | 70 | 69 | 50 |
| 36= | MongoDBmongodb.com | 63 | 64 | 71 | 53 |
| 36= | Western Digitalwesterndigital.com | 63 | 67 | 65 | 57 |
| 36= | Workdayworkday.com | 63 | 69 | 63 | 58 |
| 40= | AppLovinapplovin.com/en | 62 | 70 | 85 | 30 |
| 40= | Micron Technologymicron.com | 62 | 68 | 68 | 49 |
| 40= | Wixwix.com | 62 | 78 | 66 | 41 |
| 43= | Dropboxdropbox.com | 61 | 78 | 83 | 23 |
| 43= | KLAkla.com | 61 | 71 | 87 | 25 |
| 43= | Manhattan Associatesmanh.com | 61 | 69 | 85 | 28 |
| 46= | Informaticainformatica.com | 60 | 78 | 66 | 35 |
| 46= | Open Textopentext.com | 60 | 71 | 55 | 54 |
| 46= | ZoomInfozoominfo.com | 60 | 81 | 72 | 28 |
| 49= | Adobeadobe.com | 59 | 69 | 53 | 55 |
| 49= | Shopifyshopify.com | 59 | 66 | 66 | 46 |
| 51= | Darktracedarktrace.com | 58 | 64 | 65 | 45 |
| 51= | Endavaendava.com | 58 | 68 | 62 | 43 |
| 51= | Marvell Technologymarvell.com | 58 | 61 | 80 | 32 |
| 51= | monday.commonday.com | 58 | 72 | 66 | 37 |
| 51= | onsemionsemi.com | 58 | 71 | 53 | 51 |
| 51= | Playtechplaytech.com | 58 | 68 | 82 | 25 |
| 51= | Smartsheetsmartsheet.com | 58 | 67 | 69 | 37 |
| 51= | UiPathuipath.com | 58 | 68 | 59 | 48 |
| 51= | Unityunity.com | 58 | 67 | 55 | 53 |
| 60= | Clouderacloudera.com | 57 | 62 | 63 | 46 |
| 60= | Renesas Electronicsrenesas.com/en | 57 | 60 | 56 | 55 |
| 60= | Seagate Technologyseagate.com | 57 | 64 | 62 | 46 |
| 63= | AVEVAaveva.com | 56 | 61 | 65 | 43 |
| 63= | Dell Technologiesdell.com/en-us | 56 | 70 | 53 | 44 |
| 63= | Infineon Technologiesinfineon.com | 56 | 74 | 63 | 32 |
| 63= | Squarespacesquarespace.com | 56 | 79 | 71 | 19 |
| 67= | Nutanixnutanix.com | 55 | 68 | 68 | 28 |
| 67= | Samsung Electronicssamsung.com/us | 55 | 72 | 69 | 23 |
| 69= | Accentureaccenture.com/en | 54 | 63 | 63 | 37 |
| 69= | Nvidianvidia.com/en-us | 54 | 66 | 63 | 34 |
| 69= | Sophossophos.com/en-us | 54 | 73 | 53 | 37 |
| 72= | DocuSigndocusign.com | 53 | 59 | 63 | 37 |
| 72= | Ocado Groupocadogroup.com | 53 | 65 | 68 | 25 |
| 74= | Bentley Systemsbentley.com | 52 | 61 | 68 | 28 |
| 74= | Cisco Systemscisco.com | 52 | 62 | 70 | 23 |
| 74= | Rokuroku.com | 52 | 56 | 59 | 41 |
| 77= | Boxbox.com | 51 | 62 | 63 | 28 |
| 77= | Take-Two Interactivetake2games.com | 51 | 64 | 62 | 28 |
| 79 | Logitechlogitech.com/en-us | 50 | 59 | 62 | 28 |
| 80 | Meta Platformsmeta.com | 49 | 52 | 34 | 60 |
| 81 | Microsoftmicrosoft.com/en-us | 48 | 52 | 82 | 10 |
| 82= | Ansysansys.synopsys.com | 47 | 61 | 55 | 25 |
| 82= | Computacentercomputacenter.com | 47 | 78 | 30 | 34 |
| 84= | Lyftlyft.com | 46 | 59 | 50 | 30 |
| 84= | Pegasystemspega.com | 46 | 54 | 71 | 13 |
| 86= | Elasticelastic.co | 44 | 56 | 62 | 13 |
| 86= | Palo Alto Networkspaloaltonetworks.com | 44 | 48 | 71 | 13 |
| 86= | Qualcommqualcomm.com | 44 | 45 | 34 | 53 |
| 89= | BILL (Bill.com)bill.com | 43 | 50 | 65 | 13 |
| 89= | Brazebraze.com | 43 | 50 | 65 | 13 |
| 89= | Rightmoverightmove.co.uk | 43 | 49 | 65 | 15 |
| 92 | Ubisoftubisoft.com/en-us | 42 | 48 | 65 | 13 |
| 93= | Anthropicanthropic.com | 41 | 49 | 62 | 13 |
| 93= | Arm Holdingsarm.com | 41 | 45 | 66 | 13 |
| 93= | Datadogdatadoghq.com | 41 | 45 | 65 | 13 |
| 93= | Synapticssynaptics.com | 41 | 39 | 71 | 13 |
| 97= | Snowflakesnowflake.com/en | 40 | 44 | 62 | 13 |
| 97= | Texas Instrumentsti.com | 40 | 47 | 62 | 10 |
| 99= | Alibaba Groupalibabagroup.com/en-US | 39 | 33 | 65 | 20 |
| 99= | ASMLasml.com/en | 39 | 48 | 62 | 8 |
| 99= | ByteDancebytedance.com | 39 | 35 | 66 | 15 |
| 99= | Wiprowipro.com | 39 | 44 | 62 | 10 |
| 103= | Cognizantcognizant.com/us/en | 38 | 37 | 65 | 13 |
| 103= | HP Inc.hp.com/us-en/home.html | 38 | 41 | 62 | 10 |
| 103= | Kainoskainos.com | 38 | 34 | 65 | 15 |
| 106= | Electronic Artsea.com | 37 | 39 | 62 | 10 |
| 106= | Intelintel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html | 37 | 45 | 59 | 8 |
| 106= | Netflixnetflix.com | 37 | 27 | 65 | 20 |
| 106= | Skyworks Solutionsskyworksinc.com | 37 | 39 | 63 | 8 |
| 106= | Synopsyssynopsys.com | 37 | 40 | 62 | 8 |
| 111= | Pinterestpinterest.com | 36 | 25 | 68 | 15 |
| 111= | Robloxroblox.com | 36 | 42 | 34 | 32 |
| 111= | Uber Technologiesuber.com | 36 | 49 | 50 | 10 |
| 114 | NXP Semiconductorsnxp.com | 35 | 47 | 50 | 8 |
| 115 | Garmingarmin.com/en-US | 32 | 33 | 54 | 8 |
| 116 | Amazonamazon.com | 29 | 20 | 54 | 13 |
| 117 | Tyler Technologiestylertech.com | 28 | 40 | 30 | 13 |
| 118 | Snapsnap.com | 25 | 31 | 34 | 10 |
| 119= | Arista Networksarista.com | 23 | 21 | 34 | 15 |
| 119= | SAPsap.com/index.html | 23 | 27 | 34 | 8 |
| 119= | VMwarevmware.com | 23 | 28 | 34 | 8 |
| 122= | Amdocsamdocs.com | 21 | 14 | 34 | 15 |
| 122= | Fair Isaac (FICO)fico.com | 21 | 13 | 34 | 15 |
Download this edition: the full field as a spreadsheet (CSV), or the same run as JSON. Licensed CC BY 4.0, so it is yours to publish and build on with attribution. Every unreadable site carries empty score cells, never a zero.
This is the fixed 2026 edition, pinned to the scan measured 1 October 2026, so the figures on it do not change. The live field, re-run on the first of each month, is on the current Technology and Software benchmark. For how the score is built, see the methodology.
Licensed CC BY 4.0. Cite as: The Crane Index™, UK Technology and Software AI readability 2026, The Crane Consultancy, measured 1 October 2026. https://thecraneconsultancy.com/research/technology-software-ai-readability-2026/