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Byword — what a crawler receives from byword.ai

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69
Cgrade

Answer engines can technically reach this site, but get little they can use.

AI visibility 69/100, measured 2026-10-09 21:19 UTC from outside its network, as each named AI and search crawler and as a browser. An engine can technically reach this site and would struggle to get anything quotable out of it.

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3

findings

✓

llms.txt on its host

✗

entity map on its host

5

scans on record since 2026-09-18

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.

86

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.

92

Stage 2 · 30% of the score

Read

Once it has the bytes, can it find the words?

The delivered HTML is mostly content, and the machine files point at the rest.

22

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 quote, because the three run in order.

What to fix

3 findings on this site, 1 of them scored serious. Every one is named below; the top one is shown in full, free. What we saw, why each matters, how to fix it and the bytes behind it are what a licence buys — or we implement the whole list for you.

1 Medium 1 Low 1 Note

1The page’s content only exists after JavaScript runsThe server delivered 9 words of readable text and a React mount point that is empty in the HTML. Everything a visitor sees is built by JavaScript after this resMediumDeveloper

What we saw

The server delivered 9 words of readable text and a React mount point that is empty in the HTML. Everything a visitor sees is built by JavaScript after this response.

Why it matters

The HTML the server sends is an application shell: a framework mount point and a script bundle, with almost no readable text. A browser runs the bundle and the page appears. A crawler that does not execute JavaScript — which is most AI crawlers and every training-data fetch — receives the shell and quotes nothing. This is measured on the bytes the server delivered, not on a rendered view; a framework by itself is not the defect, an empty delivery is.

How to fix it

Render the page on the server or at build time (Next.js/Nuxt/SvelteKit SSR or SSG, or a prerender step) so the delivered HTML already contains the text. Check by fetching the page with curl: the words a crawler needs must be in that response.

Developer: a template, theme or application change — a developer touches it

On Webflow (detected)

  1. Remove unused interactions and custom code embeds; Webflow's own runtime cannot be reduced.
  2. Put the main text in the page itself, not in elements filled by script.

All Webflow fixes

Why this was decided
RuleCONTENT_NEEDS_JAVASCRIPT · rule pack sv28 · scope route
Evaluated2026-10-09 21:19:04 UTC
Decisiond1:1523def7446cc509e821 · finding f1:204751a997c088661e14 resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build bbe60e38 · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
read: /2004,357ae6c19652699kept

21 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:32178ba03ba26923281bcee8585bb32d61d44e2c7629d97befbe7d49ab357db3

Grade effect Would cap the letter at C, but the score (69) already reads C, so the letter is the same without it. Moves no points.

Rule CONTENT_NEEDS_JAVASCRIPT under scoring rules v31 · fingerprint CONTENT_NEEDS_JAVASCRIPT|/ · persisting (6 scans)

Verify the fix Re-scan after the change. This finding is cleared when CONTENT_NEEDS_JAVASCRIPT is no longer reported at /; if it comes back after clearing, it is marked a regression, not a new finding.

CONTENT_NEEDS_JAVASCRIPT · full transcript

2The sitemap does not say when anything changed/sitemap.xml🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Low
3HTTPS is served without a Strict-Transport-Security header🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note

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The chain a crawler follows

The chain breaks at entity graph. Everything after that point is only reachable by a crawler guessing the conventional path.

✓robots.txtEvery crawler reads this first
✓sitemapNamed in robots.txt and resolves
✓llms.txtPoints onward, links stay on this host
✗entity graphParses as JSON and points home

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 4,351 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 1% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 1% · 43 B
  • Markup & attributes 91.3% · 3,973 B
  • Inline JavaScript 1.7% · 75 B
  • HTML comments 6% · 260 B

What changed

No change recorded between the readings on file yet.

5 scans on record, first 2026-09-18. 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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