Monthly Report

AI Website Insights: March 2026

In March 2026, AI Website Detector scanned 1,018 unique websites and classified each one based on the technology stack, signals, and fingerprints detected in its code. Of those, 406 (40%) showed clear evidence of AI involvement — either through an AI website builder platform or AI-assisted development practices.

Next.js remained the most commonly detected technology this month, appearing on 187 scanned websites — representing 29% of all builder detections.

Websites analyzed

1,018

AI-built

4% of total

AI-assisted

365

36% of total

Human/CMS

612

60% of total

Stack Breakdown

36%

60%

AI-native build — 4% (41 sites)AI-assisted dev — 36% (365 sites)Human / CMS — 60% (612 sites)

Key Findings — March 2026

11,018 unique websites were analyzed in March 2026.
2406 (40%) showed AI involvement — via an AI website builder or AI coding assistance.
3The most detected technology was Next.js, appearing on 187 sites (29% market share).
441 sites were classified as fully AI-native builds.
5AI-native builders (Lovable, Framer, Webflow and others) collectively powered 56 sites this month.

Builder Market Share

Distribution of detected technologies across 55 unique builders and CMS platforms in March 2026. Percentages are share of all sites with a detected builder (not total scans).

AI-Native Builders

9% of builder detections · 9 platforms

CMS / Traditional

110

17% of builder detections · 9 platforms

29%187

11%74

11%73

7%47

5%31

4%28

4%28AI

3%20

3%19

2%15

AI-native builder CMS / traditional Framework / other

Platform Analysis

Next.js led all detected technologies in March 2026 with 187 sites — a 29% share of all builder detections. Its continued dominance is driven by an enormous plugin ecosystem, hosting availability, and a massive global install base that compounds monthly.

WordPress ranked second with 74 sites (11%). Both platforms represent traditional development approaches, suggesting AI adoption, while real, is still concentrated in specific segments.

Rounding out the top three, Vercel appeared on 73 sites, reinforcing the diversity of approaches being used to build production websites today.

AI Builder Spotlight

9 AI-native builder platforms appeared in this month's detections, collectively powering 56 websites (9% of all detected builder sites).

Lovable led the AI-native category with 28 sites. Framer followed with 10, and Webflow with 6. These platforms are winning new site creation — particularly from non-technical founders, solopreneurs, and small businesses who need a production website without a developer.

AI-native builders: sites created using AI website builder platforms that generate design, layout, and code from prompts or AI-driven configuration — not traditional hand-coded or CMS-based deployments.

What This Data Shows

Every website in this report was scanned by real users of AI Website Detector — people actively investigating tech stacks of live production websites. This makes the dataset uniquely biased toward websites that are being researched, which tends to skew toward higher-traffic or professionally built sites.

The 40% AI involvement figure means that a significant and growing share of websites show detectable AI involvement. AI-native builds (4%) are sites deployed via platforms like Framer, Webflow, Lovable, or Durable — tools where AI generates the site structure, design, and often the copy. AI-assisted builds (36%) are sites where AI coding tools were used during development but a traditional stack was deployed.

The remaining 60% of human/CMS sites are primarily WordPress, Shopify, and other traditional CMSes where no strong AI signals were detected. Note that some of these sites may still use AI for content generation — our detection focuses on the build stack, not content.

How we detect March 2026 verdicts — see our methodology: AI Influence Score calculation, evidence tiers, and fingerprint signal types.