AI Readiness Checker

What this checker tests

AI assistants with web search, such as ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI features, can only recommend and cite pages they are able to fetch and understand. This tool runs 13 checks in three groups:

• Access: whether robots.txt allows the main AI search crawlers, whether the page blocks indexing or snippets, whether the content exists in the HTML without JavaScript, and whether you publish a sitemap and an llms.txt file.
• Clarity: whether the title, meta description, H1 and section structure make the page's purpose obvious, the kind of plain statements answer engines like to quote.
• Trust: structured data, clear signals about who runs the site, and freshness dates.

How the score works

Each check has a weight based on how much it affects whether an engine can use the page. Access issues weigh the most: a page an engine cannot fetch cannot be cited, however good it is. A passing check earns its full weight and a partial pass earns half.

Fixes that matter most

1. Don't block AI search crawlers by accident. Many sites block everything AI-related to stop model training, and in doing so also block the crawlers that power AI search citations. You can allow OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot while still blocking GPTBot.
2. Server-render your key content. If your product description only appears after JavaScript runs, many AI crawlers will see an empty page.
3. State plainly what you do. A clear title, description and first paragraph give engines a sentence they can reuse when they describe you.