This audit fetches one page the way most AI crawlers do, as raw HTML without running JavaScript, and scores 18 readiness signals from 0 to 100: can AI crawlers reach the page, can they read it, and can they tell who you are.
It measures readiness, not results. A high score means nothing is stopping AI tools from using the page. It does not mean ChatGPT or Gemini recommend you. For that, the free AI check asks them real buyer questions about your business.
What the score checks
Each signal earns full points for a pass, half for "improve" and none for "fix". Signals that do not apply to you, such as language versions on a one-language site, are shown but not scored.
| Question | Signals | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Can AI crawlers reach the page? | Status 200 with at most one redirect; HTTPS; no noindex or nosnippet; AI search crawlers allowed in robots.txt | 42 |
| Can they read it? | Enough text in the raw HTML (300 words or more); HTML size under 500 KB | 16 |
| Can they tell what it is and who you are? | Title and meta description lengths; one H1; a canonical address; Organization or LocalBusiness schema; sameAs links; FAQ markup; language versions; Open Graph tags; a visible date | 43 |
| Can they find the rest of your site? | An XML sitemap declared in robots.txt; an llms.txt file | 6 |
The heaviest single signals are crawler access (14 points), noindex (12), text without JavaScript (12) and the page loading at all (10). A page that fails one of those can score well on everything else and still be invisible, so the "Fix first" list always puts failures ahead of improvements, heaviest first.
Why text without JavaScript matters most
Many modern sites build the page in the browser with JavaScript. People see the full page. A crawler that does not run JavaScript sees an empty shell. Vercel studied this in December 2024 and found that "none of the major AI crawlers currently render JavaScript", covering the crawlers of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, ByteDance and Perplexity. The exceptions in that study were Google's Gemini, which uses Googlebot's rendering, and Applebot.
So the word count in this audit is the text in the HTML your server sends, with scripts, styles and hidden templates removed. If it says 40 words and your page shows 1,000, your content is being built by JavaScript, and most AI crawlers miss it. The fix is server rendering or static HTML for the main content. Prices, services, areas and contact details belong in plain text, not only in images, PDFs or scripts. Google gives the same advice for its own AI features: make sure "important content is available in textual form".
Why it is a readiness score, not a ranking
No AI company publishes a score like this. Google says there are no extra technical requirements for AI Overviews and AI Mode beyond being indexed and eligible for a snippet, and "no special schema.org structured data that you need to add". OpenAI says placement in ChatGPT search is not guaranteed. The engines choose sources question by question.
What a score like this does well is find blockers. A noindex tag left over from a redesign, a robots.txt line that shuts out OAI-SearchBot, or a page that is empty without JavaScript will stop any amount of good content from being used. Clear those first. The structured data and metadata signals then make it easier for any reader, human or machine, to get your name, address, prices and links right.
A note on FAQ markup. Google stopped showing FAQ rich results in Google Search from 7 May 2026, so FAQPage markup no longer changes how you look in Google. We still give it 3 points, because a clear question and answer block, marked up to match the visible text, is an easy thing for any reader to quote. If you prefer to skip it, you lose very little.
What we saw when we ran it
When we ran this audit on 22 October 2026:
- adjoltz.com (our own homepage) scored 93. The audit flagged a title of 76 characters and a meta description of 203, both longer than search results show, and no visible date. Fair points, and on our list.
- setupcollective.ae (a client) scored 92. Its gap: Organization schema with no sameAs links to its other profiles.
- nytimes.com scored 76, mainly because its robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot and other AI search crawlers, and its homepage HTML is over 1 MB. For a publisher protecting paid content, the block is a choice. For a business that wants to be recommended, it would be the first thing to fix.
After the audit
- Work through the "Fix first" list from the top. Each item says what to change.
- Run the AI crawler checker for the full list of 28 crawlers and paste-ready robots.txt lines.
- Make an llms.txt if you do not have one. It takes two minutes.
- Audit your three most important pages, not only the homepage: the pages a buyer's question is most likely to land on, such as a service page, a price page and a location page.
- Then check the part no audit can measure: what ChatGPT and Gemini actually say when a buyer asks about your category. The free AI check below does that.