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Is your site machine-readable?
An instant score for the technical basics AI engines depend on — crawler access, structured data, server-rendered content, sitemap and metadata — with the fix for anything that fails.
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What makes a website AI-readable?
A website is AI-readable when AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt, the important content is present in the server-rendered HTML rather than assembled by JavaScript, the page carries Schema.org structured data, the title and meta description describe the brand plainly, and a sitemap lists every page. These are mechanics: they decide whether an engine can read you at all.
Common questions
- What makes a website AI-readable?
- Five things: AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt, the important content is in the server-rendered HTML rather than built by JavaScript, the page carries Schema.org structured data, the title and meta description describe the brand plainly, and a sitemap lists every page. Miss those and an engine cannot reliably read or attribute you.
- Why does server-rendered content matter for AI search?
- Most AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript. If your page arrives nearly empty and fills in through the browser, the crawler sees the empty version. Anything that matters — your description, pricing, product details — should be present in the raw HTML.
- Does schema markup help with AI citations?
- It helps the non-Google assistants understand entities and relationships, and it is standard good SEO practice regardless. Google states that structured data is not required for its AI features, so treat schema as a clarity aid rather than a ranking lever.
- What score should I aim for?
- Aim to pass every check — these are mechanics, not judgement calls, and they are all fixable in an afternoon. A high score does not mean AI recommends you; it means nothing technical is stopping it from reading you.
- Is this the same as an SEO audit?
- It overlaps but has a different emphasis. A traditional SEO audit optimises for ranking in a list of links. This checks whether an AI system can fetch, parse and attribute your content when it composes an answer.