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For our third annual Construction SEO Report, AltCMO audited the websites of the 2026 ENR Top 400 Contractors to benchmark domain authority, backlinks, spam scores, and desktop and mobile speed. The more things change, the more they stay the same: firms with strong digital authority continue to lead, while dramatic declines in backlinks and website speed reveal growing gaps across the industry.
The report gives construction owners and AEC marketers clear benchmarks, practical recommendations, and strategies for competing in both traditional and AI-powered search. It also introduces AltCMO’s new free SEO reporting and benchmarking tool, built to show contractors how their websites compare against construction-specific benchmarks and selected competitors.
The ENR Top 500 Design Firms will be covered in a separate report coming soon.
AltCMO’s 2025 Trade Contractor SEO Report benchmarks the digital performance of the ENR Top 600 Specialty Contractors, extending our research beyond general contractors and design firms to examine how the industry’s largest trade contractors compete online.
The report evaluates domain authority, backlinks, spam scores, and desktop and mobile website speed, with results broken down by trade discipline so contractors can compare their performance against both the broader specialty contracting market and the firms most like them. It also explores whether traditional SEO and AI-driven discoverability influence visibility, credibility, recruiting, and long-term growth.
Built for trade contractor owners and AEC marketers, the report provides practical benchmarks and clear priorities for strengthening search performance in an increasingly competitive digital market.
Bigger and broader than our initial SEO research. In addition to researching every website of companies on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors, we have also researched ENR’s Top 500 Design Firms, making this the first cross-sector analysis of how contractors and design firms perform in SEO and AI search readiness. This report compares the two sides of the build industry and establishes the A/E/C industry’s first SEO benchmarks.
The industry’s first SEO report for construction. We analyzed the websites of the ENR Top 400 Contractors to reveal how the largest construction companies perform in domain authority, backlinks, spam score, and site speed. This groundbreaking research set the standard for digital marketing in the construction industry.
Ever wonder how often do the largest contractors update their websites? Our exclusive research reveals whether the mega contractors maintain a fresh digital presence.
We’re looked at the top six social media channels to see where top contractors engage.
We analyzed the websites of 100 contractors with approximately $100 million in annual top-line revenue to see how they stack up against industry giants. A first-of-its-kind look at mid-market construction companies’ website performance.