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Trade benchmark · September 2026

How visible are electrical businesses to AI? We measured 44 of them.

Part of the AI Visibility Index, an unfiltered audit of 1,354 US local service businesses across 50 metros. This page is the electrical cut: the real median, the checks this trade fails most, and how it ranks against every other trade we measured.

70/100
Median AI visibility score for electrical. Range 26 to 97.
Businesses audited
44
Median
70/100
Mean
68.0
Rank
12th of 15
All trades
72/100

01Where electrical stands

Electrical ranks 12th of 15 trades measured, 2 points below the all-trade median of 72. Each group below is scored as points earned against points available across the 44 businesses in this trade.

AI Crawler Access
92.9%
Structured Data
37.3%
Content Citability
59.2%
Entity Signals
74.0%

The pattern holds here as it does across every trade in the study: an AI engine can nearly always reach these sites. What it cannot do is describe them precisely, because the machine-readable facts and the answer-shaped content it needs are missing.

02What electrical businesses fail most

Share of the 44 audited electrical businesses that outright failed each check. Ten worst shown.

FAQPage schema
95.5%
Active content section (blog/insights)
63.6%
Question-and-answer content
61.4%
Organization / LocalBusiness schema
54.5%
Structured data (JSON-LD) present
45.5%
Title tag & meta description
31.8%
Open Graph tags
29.5%
Content depth
25.0%
Phone number on page
25.0%
Clear H1 headline
22.7%

The most common single failure in this trade is FAQPage schema, missing on 95.5% of electrical sites audited. It is worth knowing that this is a fixable, mechanical problem rather than a content one: it is a block of markup stating who the business is and what it answers, not a rewrite.

03Every trade, ranked

Median and mean score per trade, for the 15 trades with a large enough sample. Electrical is highlighted.

TradeAuditedMedianMean
Roofing548074.3
Garage And Doors327975.3
Painting277573.6
Remodeling567570.3
Windows And Fencing427470.0
Hvac617472.8
Flooring337471.5
Auto Detailing And Repair4447367.5
Locksmith277270.3
Plumbing497266.3
Pools And Spas1107066.0
Electrical447068.0
Landscaping487066.5
Pet Services956966.2
Contractor And Handyman1376862.7

The spread between trades is much smaller than the spread inside any one of them. Who built the website matters more than what the business does, which is why a trade average is a starting point and not a verdict on any one site.

04Method, in short

Businesses were drawn at random from Overture Maps open place data across 50 US metros, one per registrable domain, with a fixed seed and no score filter. Every business drawn was audited and counted. 44 electrical businesses responded and were scored against the same 23 checks we run for clients. Full method, limitations and the null results we could not explain away are on the main Index page, and every figure is published as JSON under CC BY 4.0.

05Other trades

Roofing Garage And Doors Painting Remodeling Windows And Fencing Hvac Flooring Auto Detailing And Repair Locksmith Plumbing Pools And Spas Electrical Landscaping Pet Services Contractor And Handyman

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