B
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86%
86% -- share of sites with recognizable contact path for US/Canada accounting firm websites (2026)
86% of sampled US and Canadian accounting firm websites exposed a recognisable place to begin contact.
- Convenience sample
- Not nationally representative
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Value
86%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
118
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
The Quiet Protocol
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Tier A
https://www.thequietprotocol.com/benchmarks ↗
Source Article
Research & Benchmarks | The Quiet Protocol
One thing here was measured. The rest are assumptions, and they are marked.
Most of what this industry publishes as a benchmark is a target somebody thought was reasonable. Some of it is genuinely observed. The two get printed in the same typeface, and a prospective buyer has no way to tell them apa…
Original Research
The Quiet Protocol
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Methodology
Convenience sample of 118 eligible accounting firm websites (US/Canada), scored against published rubric afdfb-2026-v1; 816 pages observed; not nationally representative
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US/Canada accounting firm websites: 86% share of sites with recognizable contact path. Source: The Quiet Protocol (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/accounting-firm-sites-contact-path-2026
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