Livebooks vs Cargo — Platform Benchmark

60.2

Livebooks

9 sites

WINNER

45.4

Cargo

26 sites

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability

71.7 42.5

Avg Security

16.7 16.7

Avg Efficiency

71.7 56.0

Avg Total Score

60.2 45.4

Avg Structure

83.8 32.5

Avg Load Complexity

71.8 81.9

Avg Lighthouse

56.9 53.3

Best Site Score

65.3 55.1

Worst Site Score

53.5 30.7

Livebooks Cargo

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry	Livebooks	Cargo
Architecture	—	51.6 3 sites
Corporate-personal	—	43.8 2 sites
Design	—	44.4 1 sites
Film & Video	—	51.9 1 sites
Photography	—	44.3 19 sites

Comparison Insights

Overall Verdict

Livebooks meaningfully outperforms Cargo by 14.8 points on average. This reflects a consistent quality gap across their sites.

Dimension Edge

Livebooks leads in: AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Lighthouse. Cargo leads in: Load Complexity. Livebooks has a broader performance advantage across dimensions.

Opportunities for improvement

Livebooks could target Load Complexity to close the gap.
Cargo could target AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Lighthouse to improve.

Industry-by-Industry Results

The platforms split industry wins evenly across 5 shared verticals - the overall score gap may be driven by a few outlier sites rather than a consistent pattern.

Sample Size Consideration

Cargo has 2.9× more audited sites than Livebooks. Larger samples surface more variation and may pull averages toward the mean, so this comparison should be read with that in mind.