Is Your Website AI-Ready? Here's How to Check

Stembel_CBusiness C — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:44:44 +0000

With AI crawlers like GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), and Google-Extended (Gemini) hitting websites daily, most site owners

have no idea what's happening.

I built an AI Readiness Checker that scores your website on five categories.

## 1. robots.txt AI Bot Rules

Are you explicitly allowing or blocking AI crawlers? Most sites have a generic User-agent: * / Allow: / and call it done. That

means every AI bot can freely scrape your content for training data.

The tool checks rules for 10 specific AI bots:

GPTBot & ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
ClaudeBot & Claude-Web (Anthropic)
Google-Extended (Gemini training)
PerplexityBot
Bytespider (ByteDance)
CCBot (Common Crawl)
FacebookBot
Applebot-Extended

## 2. llms.txt

This is a new standard (llmstxt.org) — a plain text file at your root that tells AI systems what your site is
about. Think of it as a README for AI crawlers. Almost nobody has one yet.

## 3. Structured Data

JSON-LD, Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards. These help AI systems understand your content structure and cite it correctly.

## 4. Content Citability

Do you have clear headings, lists, and enough textual content for AI to cite? A page with just an interactive tool and no text scores
low.

## 5. AI Meta Directives

The noai and noimageai meta directives let you opt out of AI training on a per-page basis.

## Try it

Check your site's AI readiness score — it takes about 5 seconds and you will probably
be surprised by the result.

Also: if you need to build a robots.txt with AI bot rules, there is a visual robots.txt

generator with one-click presets for blocking AI crawlers.

If you want to dig deeper, these guides go into each topic:

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Is Your Website AI-Ready? Here's How to Check