How we checked

We drew 3,000 websites at random from 11,604 US home services businesses on October 30, 2026, then fetched each homepage and robots.txt without running JavaScript.

What counted

• Base: 2,635 homepages returned a page. The 365 that failed are left out and are not counted as gaps.
• Business schema: an @type of LocalBusiness, a home services subtype, ProfessionalService or Organization in the page HTML.
• Nearly blank: fewer than 500 characters of visible text before JavaScript.
• Crawler blocking: a site-wide block in robots.txt, across the 2,839 sites we could check. A site with no robots.txt counts as not blocked.

Limits

• Homepages only. Inner pages may be better or worse.
• Schema added by JavaScript is not counted, because a tool that does not run JavaScript cannot see it.
• Firewall blocks do not appear in robots.txt, so blocking figures are minimums.
• Businesses came from a prospect list kept by Berk Hospitality Group, so this is not a census of every contractor.
• We measured whether sites can be read, not whether AI tools name them. Readability does not guarantee a mention.