Livebooks vs Custom — Platform Benchmark

60.2

Livebooks

9 sites

WINNER

51.8

Custom

254 sites

Score Summary

Avg AI Readability

71.7 52.2

Avg Security

16.7 37.2

Avg Efficiency

71.7 56.6

Avg Total Score

60.2 51.8

Avg Structure

83.8 47.1

Avg Load Complexity

71.8 67.6

Avg Lighthouse

56.9 54.9

Best Site Score

65.3 87.6

Worst Site Score

53.5 15.7

Livebooks Custom

Performance by Industry

Average total score for each platform within shared industries.

Industry	Livebooks	Custom
Architecture	—	52.4 6 sites
Content Creation	—	54.1 6 sites
Corporate-personal	—	47.3 86 sites
Design	—	66.2 3 sites
Photography	—	53.9 153 sites

Comparison Insights

Overall Verdict

Livebooks meaningfully outperforms Custom by 8.4 points on average. This reflects a consistent quality gap across their sites.

Dimension Edge

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

Opportunities for improvement

Livebooks could target Security to close the gap.
Custom could target AI Readability, Efficiency, Structure, Load Complexity, 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

Custom has 28.2× 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.