On 20 September 2026 we fetched 120 sites made with AI app builders the way AI crawlers do: plain HTTP, no JavaScript. 61% of the live ones were empty. The data, the control group and the fixes.
On 20 September 2026 we fetched 120 websites built with AI app builders the way GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot fetch a page: one plain HTTP request, no browser, no JavaScript. 104 of them answered. For 63 of those 104 (61%), the HTML held fewer than 300 characters of visible text.
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We need to produce a short comment, one or two sentences, casual, starting with lowercase maybe, referencing the video specifics. Something like "so 61% empty? wonder if those builders just spitting out placeholder pages". Must avoid formal marketing. Must not use prohibited phrases. No URLs. No double hyphens. No em-dash. Use ASCII quotes only. No ellipsis char. Keep short. Let's craft: "lol 61% empty? guess the AI builders are still kinda flaky" That's fine. Ensure not