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Botify — what a crawler receives from botify.com
Answer engines can reach and read this site. It needs more it can quote.
AI visibility 79/100, measured 2026-09-03 07:17 UTC from outside its network, as fifteen named crawler identities and one unnamed client. An engine can reach and read this site. What is left is giving it something specific to say.
Held at C A medium-severity finding sets the letter.
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findings
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llms.txt on its host
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entity map on its host
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scans on record since 2026-08-18
The three stages, in the order an engine hits a site
Each stage gates the next. An engine that cannot reach a page never reads it; one that cannot read it never quotes it. That is why reach is a ceiling and not just a weight.
Stage 1 · 40% of the score
Reach
Can a named answer-engine crawler get your pages at all?
Every named crawler was served the same page a browser gets.
Stage 2 · 30% of the score
Read
Once it has the bytes, can it find the words?
The content is buried in markup, or the files that guide a crawler are missing.
Stage 3 · 30% of the score
Quote
Is there a specific fact it can state and attribute?
An assistant would have to paraphrase your page instead of quoting a fact.
The stage to fix first is read, because the three run in order.
What to fix, in order
Findings first: each one holds the grade down until it is gone (the top one sets the letter). Then headroom: each one lifts the score by the points shown. Open a card for what we saw, why it matters and how to fix it.
Files, generated from this scan
Each file says at its top exactly what was changed or filled and what was left as a TODO. Publish, then re-scan: done is measured.
1Almost nothing a machine receives from this page is readable text4.8% of 175,539 decompressed bytes is visible textMedium
What we saw
4.8% of 175,539 decompressed bytes is visible text
Why it matters
A crawler pays for every byte it fetches and can only quote the text. Under 5% readable content means an answer engine downloads the whole page and comes away with almost nothing it can use — the difference between being quotable and being skipped. The content-ratio row above passes at 20%, so without this a page at 2% and a page at 19% were scored identically.
How to fix it
Move inline CSS and JavaScript into external files, drop unused page-builder styling, and make sure the words a visitor reads are in the HTML itself.
PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE · full transcript
2Unfinished placeholder text is live on this pageFound in page text: "test content"Medium
What we saw
Found in page text: "test content"
Why it matters
Template text that was never replaced is being served to visitors and to crawlers. An answer engine cannot tell draft copy from real copy — it reads and may quote whatever is there. Placeholder in a title or meta description is worse than in body copy, because that is the text a search result shows and an assistant repeats.
How to fix it
Replace the placeholder text (lorem ipsum, 'test content', template copy) with the real page, or unpublish the page until it is written.
PLACEHOLDER_CONTENT · full transcript
3Visitors and crawlers are being served an old copy of this pagethe copy served to us was built 17 hours 49 min agoLow
What we saw
the copy served to us was built 17 hours 49 min ago
Why it matters
The page handed to us carried a cache age older than an hour. Nothing is broken today — the copy matches what the origin produces. It matters the moment you change something: an edit, a new price, a corrected phone number stays invisible to every visitor and every crawler for about that long, and nothing in your dashboard says so.
How to fix it
Lower the cache lifetime on HTML (an hour or less), or purge the edge and origin caches after every publish so crawlers see the current copy.
STALE_CACHE_SERVED · full transcript
4No llms.txtNot present.Note
What we saw
Not present. /llms.txt
Why it matters
Not a defect. llms.txt is an emerging convention for telling AI systems what a site is and which pages matter.
How to fix it
Publish /llms.txt: a short Markdown file naming the business, what it does, and the pages worth reading, served as text/plain or text/markdown.
NO_LLMS_TXT · full transcript
Headroom +18 points if every row passes
Nothing here is broken. Each row is a measure that currently fails its optimal range, and what fixing it is worth to the score.
Watch this domain
Twice-daily scans, the date each finding first appeared, and a change receipt when something moves. Free for 30 days, no card.
Start watching botify.comGet this fixed for you
Every finding above fixed on your site, then re-measured - done is measured, not asserted. One-time, from $750.
See the fix serviceThe chain a crawler follows
The chain breaks at llms.txt. Everything after that point is only reachable by a crawler guessing the conventional path.
A machine file that does not parse is worth less than one that is absent, because it looks present. Rows behind this.
Where the bytes go
Of the 175,539 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 4.8% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.
- Readable text 4.8% · 8,439 B
- Markup & attributes 73.8% · 129,623 B
- Structured data (JSON-LD) 1.5% · 2,687 B
- Inline CSS 10.7% · 18,715 B
- Inline JavaScript 5.6% · 9,884 B
- Inline SVG 3.4% · 5,896 B
- HTML comments 0.2% · 295 B
What changed
- 2026-09-03a new finding appeared: unfinished placeholder text is live on this pageappeared
- 2026-09-02a stale edge copy was served againreturned
- 2026-09-01the stale edge copy clearedresolved
5 scans on record, first 2026-08-18. Score movements are shown only between readings taken under the same score version; finding codes are comparable across all of them.
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