crawlerWARNING
Googlebot burns its budget on junk.
- Faceted-nav and parameter URLs eat the crawl
- The pages that pay you get reached rarely
- Critical content streams in after LCP
- Indexation lags publishing by weeks
Data study · 4,688 sites scanned
55%
of the sites we scanned aren’t clearly visible to major answer engines — and most don’t know it.
Free. No login. The 17-signal AI-Ready Lens — same engine as the study.
WHAT THE STUDY FOUNDn = 4,688
Not clearly visible to answer engines55%
Missing llms.txt78%
Crawl budget waste signals29%
Thin or no structured data27%
Pass 16+ of 17 AEO signals3%
01 / What the data shows
The pattern is the same on almost every site we score.
14×
more organic trafficmedian monthly visits — AI-visible vs. below-the-bar sites
In our 2026 audit, the sites answer engines can read pulled 14× the organic visits of the ones they can’t — a gap that held in every industry tested. Being unreadable isn’t a vanity score. It’s the traffic. Read the study
Median organic visits/mo · n = 2,525 revenue-verified sites · 2026
answer engineCRITICAL
ChatGPT answers your category — without you.
- No extractable answer for engines to quote
- Your entity is unresolved: "who is this?"
- llms.txt missing, schema thin
- Competitors get cited; you get paraphrased away
youNOTICE
You don't get a warning. You just stop getting found.
- Traffic flattens; dashboards don't say why
- "Do more content" stops moving the line
- Being unreadable to machines is the new invisible
- The fix is knowable — once you measure it
02 / Who's behind it
An engineer who scored thousands of sites — and published the data.
You can feel the traffic flattening. The dashboards don't say why, and “do more content” isn't an answer. The free scan runs the same engine those studies are built on — so you get a real reading, not a sales pitch.
“Published the data” isn't a figure of speech — it's a 2026 audit of 4,688 service-business sites, scored on the same engine behind this free scan. Read the study
03 / How it works
Two free steps. Then the full audit, when you're ready.
1
Take the free AI-Ready Lens
Drop your domain — it scans in the background while you take a 2-minute AEO quiz. By the end you get 17 signals across 3 buckets and your answer-engine grade.
Free · ~2 min · no login
2
Get your comprehensive sample
Add your email and we send a sample of the full diagnostic — the complete Indexability scorecard, 100+ checks beyond the lens, straight to your inbox.
Free · emailed
3
Book the full 1-on-1 audit
Want the whole picture? All 63 checks across 6 categories, ranked by revenue impact and walked through live with the engineer who ran it.
Paid · optional
04 / What the free lens measures
The AI-Ready Lens: 17 signals, three buckets.
A pass means an answer engine can read it cleanly; a fail is a discrete, named fix — not a verdict on your business. Every signal is yours to keep.
bucket 014 signals
Does the site clearly describe your business?
Machine-readable business profile, clean h1/h2 structure, semantic page markup, crawler-visible meta description.
free · yours to keep
bucket 028 signals
Does the site's plumbing actually work?
Canonical & robots tags, internal + external links crawlable, About page, indexed blog, linked socials, server-rendered JSON-LD.
free · yours to keep
bucket 035 signals
Have you let the AI crawlers in?
llms.txt at root, plus GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended access.
free · yours to keep
That’s the on-screen read. Add your email and the complete Indexability scorecard — 100+ checks beyond the lens — lands in your inbox. The full 1-on-1 audit opens all 63 checks across 6 categories.
05 / What people say about the scan
Small ask. Immediate clarity.
[NEEDS COLLECTION]
“Ran the scan, and for the first time I could see why we weren’t getting cited. Took five minutes. The grade was uncomfortable — and correct.”
HG
Placeholder nameHead of Growth · seed-stage SaaS
[NEEDS COLLECTION]
“I expected vanity metrics. Instead it named the three things actually costing us traffic and ranked them. No fluff, no upsell theater.”
EL
Placeholder nameFounder · B2B marketplace
Methodology is public — the scan is built on the same data study behind our crawl-budget research.
06 / Why now
The engines are deciding either way.
✗ Without the scan
Every month you don’t know your score, the engines keep deciding without you — and the competitor who is extractable gets the citation, the click, and the customer.
$ status → 7 critical · unreadable to 3 of 4 answer engines
✓ With the scan
Know exactly what crawlers and answer engines see, fix the findings that move revenue first, and get found by both — on purpose, not by luck.
$ status → 0 critical · cited by 4 of 4 answer engines
$ ./scan --free
If your traffic is flattening and you can't see why,
the scan is the right next step.
It costs you a URL and 60 seconds. By the way — the scan runs whether or not we ever talk. If the score looks bad enough to act on, the full diagnostic is where that goes.
Grade your crawl + AEO health— free, no login, ~60s
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