No skip-to-content link
87.6%
of the 3,044 free scans considered in the last 30 days raised this finding. That is 2,668 scans across 2,652 distinct sites. 95% interval 86.3% to 88.8%.
What it means
Without a skip link, a keyboard-only visitor has to tab through the entire navigation on every page.
How to fix it
Add a "Skip to content" link as the first focusable element, pointing at your <main> id. Keyboard users otherwise tab through the whole nav on every page.
How to check it yourself
Load the page and press Tab as soon as it loads. If focus jumps straight into the navigation rather than to a hidden skip link, none is present.
What fixed looks like
Pressing Tab on page load moves focus to a skip link that jumps straight to the main content.
How we measured this
Go Voltic scans a site and records which findings it raises. The share above is over every free four-page scan in the last 30 days that loaded at least one page, which is 3,044 scans. Deep scans of paid reports and of the research sweep read a site at a different depth and are a separate population, never in this denominator. It is not a survey and it is not an estimate: it is a count of what our own scanner found. Sites are counted once each in the distinct-sites figure, so a site scanned twice does not weigh double there.
The interval is a 95% Wilson interval. A share printed without its sample size reads as certainty and is indistinguishable from a guess, so both are always shown. Figures on this page were computed on 2026-09-08.
The same share sits beside every other finding on the benchmarks page, which also carries the whole table as CSV and JSON and says how to cite it.
Check your own site
The free scan reads four pages and reports every finding it raises, including this one. It takes about ten seconds and asks for nothing but the address.