Updated 28 September 2026
The UK SMB Security Benchmark
Aggregated insights from 1 anonymous Mode 1 scans across 1 UK sectors. All figures are cohort-derived; no individual sites are identified.
Sector cohorts
Median score, cohort size, and top three issues per UK sector. Click a sector to deep-dive.
Methodology
- Scope: SiteIntel Mode 1 (Public Passive) — 46 checks across DNS, TLS, headers, supply-chain, breach exposure, threat intel.
- Corpus: Public UK sites from FCA register, IMRG Top 500, ABPI member list, The Lawyer 200, Make UK members, Press Gazette top 50. Anonymised at ingest (domain hashed, no identifying metadata persisted).
- Score: Composite 0-100; weighted across security, performance, SEO, accessibility, tech-debt.
- Composite signals: Pairs of finding codes with ≥5% co-occurrence and ≥1.5× score-drop lift versus sector baseline.
- Cohort floor: Sectors with <5 scans are excluded from percentile reporting (too thin to be stable).
- Refresh: Cached 1 hour. PDF report regenerated on demand.