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Site Scan

An instant technical check of whether AI crawlers can read your site: the eight categories, how scoring works, the fix prompts, and the scan history.

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Before an engine can recommend you, it has to be able to read you. Site Scan checks that in a few seconds and gives you a graded report with a concrete fix for every failed item.

Running a scan

Pick one of your brand domains and hit Run scan. Customize lets you narrow the scan to a site type or to individual checks:

  • All: every category.
  • Content site: crawlability, discoverability, content structure, answerability, content accessibility, bot access control.
  • API / agent site: crawlability, discoverability, bot access control, API and MCP discovery, commerce protocols.

Free accounts get 2 scans a day. Paid plans are unlimited.

What gets checked

CategoryExamples of checks
Crawlability and bot accessHTTPS, homepage returns 200, response under 1.5s, robots.txt, sitemap declared and reachable
AI discoverabilityllms.txt, llms-full.txt, RSS or Atom feed, canonical URL, DNS _aid record, discovery Link headers
Content structureTitle and meta description length, Open Graph tags, single H1, heading hierarchy, semantic landmarks, viewport, favicon, lang, hreflang
Answerability and structured dataJSON-LD, FAQ content, text-to-markup ratio, a clear quotable first paragraph
Content accessibilityMarkdown content negotiation, .md variants of pages
Bot access controlAI crawler rules in robots.txt, Content Signals directives, Web Bot Auth
API, auth and MCPAPI catalog, OAuth discovery, auth.md, MCP server card, Agent Skills manifest, WebMCP, A2A agent card
Commerce protocolsx402, MPP, UCP, ACP

The last three categories only matter if agents are meant to transact with your product. A content site that skips them is not doing anything wrong, which is exactly why the site-type presets exist.

Reading the report

Each category gets its own score, and each check is a pass, a warning or a fail with an explanation. Two things matter more than the number:

  • Fails in crawlability are blocking. Nothing else helps if the crawler cannot reach the page.
  • Fails in answerability are the ones that most often explain β€œwe rank on Google but AI never quotes us”. A page that buries the answer at the bottom is hard to quote.

Fix prompts

Every check has a How to fix button, and the whole report can be copied at once. Each fix comes in two wordings:

  • For LLM: paste it into your coding assistant and it will make the change.
  • For developer: plain instructions for a person.

This is the intended way to use Site Scan if you do not write code yourself: run the scan, copy the full fix, hand it over.

History

Every scan is saved per brand. Expand a row to compare it with the previous score, so you can see whether a change actually moved anything. Switching brands shows only that brand’s scans.

Related: AI Visibility Playbook, Citations, Domains.

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