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The fix
Identify client-only components holding copy that matters and move them to server rendering.
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10 of 15 AI crawlers blocked in a way that costs you
Every AI crawler we track, and what your site does when it asks for
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1 your choice, or not tested
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4 can reach this page
10 of 15 AI crawlers cannot get your content: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot and 6 more. Start there.
4 / 15named crawler tokens allowed in robots.txt
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Bot access matrix: the AI crawlers your robots.txt or your server treats differently.
Crawler
Purpose
Status
robots.txt
Server response
GPTBotOpenAI
PurposeTraining
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI
PurposeAI search
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI
PurposeAssistant
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
ClaudeBotAnthropic
PurposeTraining
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic
PurposeAI search
✕
Blocked, costs you
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responsesame page served (HTTP 200)
Claude-UserAnthropic
PurposeAssistant
✕
Blocked, costs you
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responsesame page served (HTTP 200)
PerplexityBotPerplexity
PurposeAI search
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
Perplexity-UserPerplexity
PurposeAssistant
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
Meta-ExternalAgentMeta
PurposeTraining
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
CCBotCommon Crawl
PurposeTraining
✕
Blocked at your server
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseblocked at the server (HTTP 403)
Google-ExtendedGoogle
PurposeTraining
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Blocked by choice
robots.txtdisallowed by
Disallow: /
Server responseno request user agent exists to test
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Status
robots.txt
Server response
anthropic-aiAnthropic
PurposeTraining
✓
Allowed
robots.txtallowed
Server responseno request user agent exists to test
Applebot-ExtendedApple
PurposeTraining
✓
Allowed
robots.txtallowed
Server responseno request user agent exists to test
BytespiderByteDance
PurposeTraining
✓
Reaches your page
robots.txtallowed
Server responsesame page served (HTTP 200)
AmazonbotAmazon
PurposeTraining
✓
Reaches your page
robots.txtallowed
Server responsesame page served (HTTP 200)
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Blocked at your server
Your server answered this crawler's user agent with a block instead of the page, and your robots.txt disallows it as well. The two are consistent, but reputable crawlers stop at the server either way and the scan deducts Access score for it. Servers that verify crawler IPs will block a spoofed user agent from any scanner; the real crawler may pass.
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Blocked, costs you
Your robots.txt tells this crawler not to read the page, and this crawler feeds live AI answers rather than model training. That block costs Access score and appears in the fix list below.
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Blocked by choice
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Allowed
Your robots.txt allows this token. It is a robots.txt token only: it sends no user agent of its own, so there is no server response to test and none is implied.
✓
Reaches your page
Your robots.txt allows this crawler and your server returned it the same page it returns to a browser. This measures access, not content: whether that HTML is readable without JavaScript is a separate check, scored as retrievability when the page can be graded.
AI-readiness checklist
4 of 7 basics in place
The page basics an assistant needs, checked against what an AI
crawler receives rather than the rendered page. These feed the
Structure part of the score above.
✓Title tagThe page has a title, which is the first thing an assistant names it by.Pass
✗Meta descriptionNo meta description. It is the summary an assistant may quote; add one under 155 characters.Needs work
✗One H1 headingNot exactly one H1. A crawler reads the page subject from its single H1; use one.Needs work
✓Canonical URLA canonical link tells a crawler which URL is the real one.Pass
✓Heading coverageHeadings cover the content, so a crawler can index it by section.Pass
✓No wall of textNo single block is too long to parse cleanly.Pass
✗llms.txtNo llms.txt. It is informational only, a nice-to-have rather than a ranking factor.Needs work
✓
Structured data
Found NewsMediaOrganization, which tells an assistant what this page is.
Pass
What is holding you back, worst first
Ranked by severity, worst first. Start at the top: fix the
critical items and the rest compounds.
Critical
robots.txt blocks AI search crawlers
robots_block_searchup to +10
The crawlers that feed AI search results skip you, so you cannot appear as a cited source when people ask AI about your market.
What this means for you
Your site is telling the AI search crawlers not to read it.
The fix, technically
Allow the AI search crawlers you want citations from (they fetch to answer user queries, not to train).
Evidence from your pageOAI-SearchBot: Disallow: /; Claude-SearchBot: Disallow: /; PerplexityBot: Disallow: /
Review your crawler access policy. We map which AI systems you are blocking, deliberately or by accident, and align robots.txt, CDN rules, and directives with the visibility you actually want.
Part of the rendered content is missing from the initial HTML
partial_parityup to +14.9
AI assistants get a partial picture of your business, so key offers, proof points or answers can be absent when a buyer asks about you and a competitor with a complete page gets recommended instead.
What this means for you
The version of your page an AI crawler receives is missing chunks that visitors see, because some sections only load after the browser does extra work the crawler never performs.
The fix, technically
Identify client-only components holding copy that matters and move them to server rendering.
Evidence from your page30% of the rendered main content is missing from the initial HTML.
Fix the rendering gap. We move the content AI engines miss into the initial HTML: server rendering, static generation, or hydration restructuring, measured before and after with this scanner.
When a buyer asks an assistant about your business, it cannot fetch your page and answers from other sources instead.
What this means for you
Your site turns away the AI tools that look you up live when someone asks a question about you.
The fix, technically
Assistant user agents fetch on behalf of a human asking about you; blocking them removes you from those answers.
Evidence from your pageChatGPT-User: Disallow: /; Claude-User: Disallow: /; Perplexity-User: Disallow: /
Major
Server-level blocking of AI crawler user agents
ua_enforcementup to +5
AI systems are stopped at the door, so none of your content is available for them to summarize or recommend.
What this means for you
Your security or hosting layer blocks AI crawlers before they can reach your pages.
The fix, technically
Requests with AI crawler user agents get blocked at the edge. Review CDN/WAF bot rules if you want AI visibility.
Evidence from your pageGPTBot got HTTP 403; OAI-SearchBot got HTTP 403; ChatGPT-User got HTTP 403; ClaudeBot got HTTP 403; PerplexityBot got HTTP 403; Perplexity-User got HTTP 403; Meta-ExternalAgent got HTTP 403; CCBot got HTTP 403. Servers that verify crawler IPs will block a spoofed user agent from any scanner; the real crawler may pass.
Minor
No meta description in the initial HTML
missing_meta_description+2.3
AI assistants are left to guess how to describe you and may summarize you inaccurately or favor a competitor whose page states its purpose clearly.
What this means for you
Your page carries no short summary sentence describing what it is about.
The fix, technically
Add a server-rendered meta description.
Evidence from your pageNo meta description in the initial HTML.
Make the page extraction friendly. Titles, headings, and block structure decide how retrieval systems chunk and quote you. We restructure pages so the right passages surface.
AI crawlers can misread the page's main subject, weakening how confidently they match it to the questions buyers actually ask.
What this means for you
Your page is missing a single clear main heading that says what it is about, or it has several competing ones.
The fix, technically
Use a single H1 stating what the page is about.
Evidence from your pageFound 0 H1 elements in the initial HTML.
Minor
No llms.txt
no_llms_txt+1.2
A handful of assistants will read this file if it exists, so adding it gives you a small extra chance of being understood correctly at no cost, though most tools ignore it today.
What this means for you
Your site does not include the optional plain-text guide that some AI assistants look for to understand what your business is about.
The fix, technically
Informational only. Independent 2026 data (Ahrefs, SE Ranking, Google documentation) shows no measurable citation effect from llms.txt. It is checked because it costs nothing and some assistants read it, but it moves neither crawling nor ranking.
Evidence from your pageNo llms.txt at the site root.
Minor
HTML exceeds 3MB
html_truncated
AI crawlers can stop reading before they reach the end, so anything lower on the page may never be seen or used in their answers about you.
What this means for you
The page's underlying file is very large, more than three megabytes.
The fix, technically
The page HTML is larger than 3MB; this scan graded the captured portion. Slim the document.
Evidence from your pageInitial HTML exceeded the 3MB capture cap.
Minor
Structured data uses no recognized business type
unrecognized_schemaup to +6
AI assistants find no labeled business facts to extract, so they fall back to guessing from your prose or skip you for a competitor with proper structured data.
What this means for you
Your page has structured data, but it is only generic page or site markup (like WebPage or WebSite), not the business types AI uses to understand who you are and what you offer.
The fix, technically
Add a recognized business type (Organization, Product, Article, FAQPage, or BreadcrumbList) with its required properties, so AI can extract your business facts.
Evidence from your pagetypes found: NewsMediaOrganization
Ship structured data that parses. We add server-rendered JSON-LD with the required properties for your content types, validated by the same checker that graded this page.
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We parsed the JSON-LD in the HTML a no-JavaScript crawler receives and checked five properties of the identity it declares. This measures your markup, not any AI system's behavior: nobody outside those systems can observe what they do with a given property, so nothing here is a prediction. Scored separately from your 48.4/100 score.
75/100AnchoredAn identity node is present and declares at least one absolute identifier, an @id or a sameAs URL. We check the shape, not the destination: nothing is fetched.4 of 5 signals present
Your HTML was larger than our capture limit, so we did not read all of it. Absences below are not proven: a block past the cut could declare them.
✓Present: Identity declaredFound NewsMediaOrganization "Ad Age" with an absolute url, in the HTML a crawler receives. We require all three, a type, a name and a url, before counting an identity as declared.
+Missing: External identifiers (sameAs)No sameAs on your identity node. Add sameAs URLs pointing at pages that identify the same entity, for example your Wikidata item, your LinkedIn company page, or your Crunchbase profile. Not proven: your HTML was truncated before we finished reading it.
✓Present: Stable identifier (@id)Your identity node carries @id https://adage.com/#organization, an absolute URI that other nodes on this page and documents elsewhere can reference.
✓Present: Logo declaredAbsolute logo URL on your identity node. Google's Organization documentation, updated 2026-04-15, lists logo among its recommended properties and states that the markup can influence which logo is shown in Search results and the knowledge panel.
✓Present: Category declaredYour identity node is typed NewsMediaOrganization, which is more specific than a bare Organization, so the category is stated in the type itself.
Properties to add to the identity node you already declare
Built from this scan: the URL we resolved, plus one property for each signal above that we did not find. Every REPLACE_ value is a placeholder, so edit them before you ship this. We do not guess names, logos, profile links or categories, so nothing here is invented.
Your page already declares an identity node, so merge these properties into that node rather than adding a second block. They carry no @type and no @context, so merging cannot overwrite a type of your own that is more specific than Organization.
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llms.txt
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This site serves no llms.txt.
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