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AI assistants like ChatGPT can read your site, but find little to quote about your product.

AI visibility 85/100, measured 2026-10-27 02:04 UTC from outside its network, as each named AI and search crawler and as a browser. An engine can reach and read this site. What is left is giving it something specific to say.

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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 2026-09-18

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, and one that cannot read it never quotes it.

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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.

88

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.

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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, the lowest of the three.

What to fix

3 findings on this site. 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.

2 Low 1 Note

1Links send crawlers to the same pages under many different addressesOf 194 internal links on the 4 pages read, a crawler would queue tracking parameters on internal links: ref.LowContent

What we saw

Of 194 internal links on the 4 pages read, a crawler would queue tracking parameters on internal links: ref.

Why it matters

A crawler keeps a queue of every address it has found and still has to fetch (its crawl frontier). Each distinct URL is a separate entry and a separate fetch, so one page linked under several query strings, a session id in every link, “add to cart” and “reply to comment” links, or a calendar that links one month further forever all fill that queue with addresses that teach it nothing. Search engines and AI crawlers spend a limited budget per site; what goes on duplicates is not spent on the pages that matter, and the duplicates compete with each other. Counted from real links on the pages read, not guessed from the sitemap.

How to fix it

Link every page by one address: drop session ids and tracking parameters from internal links, add rel="nofollow" (or a robots.txt Disallow) to add-to-cart, reply-to and calendar-paging links, and give sort/filter variants a canonical tag pointing at the plain page.

Content: words, markup or images on a page — no deploy

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You are working in the codebase (or server/CDN configuration) that serves debugbear.com. A crawler audit found the problem below. Fix it at the source, keep the change as small as possible, and do not change anything a visitor sees unless the fix requires it.

Finding: Links send crawlers to the same pages under many different addresses (FRONTIER_BLOAT, low severity)
Page: https://debugbear.com/
What was measured: Of 194 internal links on the 4 pages read, a crawler would queue tracking parameters on internal links: ref.
Why it matters: A crawler keeps a queue of every address it has found and still has to fetch (its crawl frontier). Each distinct URL is a separate entry and a separate fetch, so one page linked under several query strings, a session id in every link, “add to cart” and “reply to comment” links, or a calendar that links one month further forever all fill that queue with addresses that teach it nothing. Search engines and AI crawlers spend a limited budget per site; what goes on duplicates is not spent on the pages that matter, and the duplicates compete with each other. Counted from real links on the pages read, not guessed from the sitemap.
How to fix it: Link every page by one address: drop session ids and tracking parameters from internal links, add rel="nofollow" (or a robots.txt Disallow) to add-to-cart, reply-to and calendar-paging links, and give sort/filter variants a canonical tag pointing at the plain page.

Rule and examples: https://crawlcheck.io/rules/FRONTIER_BLOAT
Full report (markdown): https://crawlcheck.io/r/t5m4k2xfy2.md

When you are done:
1. Tell me which files or settings you changed and why.
2. If the fix is a server, CDN or cache setting you cannot change from the code, say exactly where it is set.
3. After deploying, re-scan at https://crawlcheck.io/?url=debugbear.com . The fix counts when FRONTIER_BLOAT is gone from the new report.
Why this was decided
RuleFRONTIER_BLOAT · rule pack sv34 · scope core
Evaluated2026-10-27 02:04:55 UTC
Decisiond1:39430987598b9f7738d2 · finding f1:9d31d3c59530bc1cc3f6 resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build 1c82ed0e from EWR · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
crawlcheck20075,667779a16ea5c0fkept
anon20075,667012123b2e6bdkept
gptbot20075,6679a1e6a27381dkept
claudebot20075,6672b3ade734636kept
oaisearch20075,6670576acd29490kept
claudesearch20075,66703f337a44604kept
perplexity20075,6676f7a881b8995kept
googlebot20075,66794e805087a42kept

14 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:3055e81e44ccbd8a7b76943b9c9d13e689f8ea24f7a7d78c93065e376dab9a96

Grade effect Does not cap the letter: only medium, high and critical findings do. Moves no points either; the score is built from the measured rows.

Rule FRONTIER_BLOAT under scoring rules v34 · fingerprint FRONTIER_BLOAT|/ · persisting (2 scans)

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

FRONTIER_BLOAT · 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
3No llms.txt/llms.txt🔒 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 llms.txt. 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 75,662 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 9.8% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 9.8% · 7,430 B
  • Markup & attributes 50.1% · 37,935 B
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) 0.5% · 347 B
  • Inline CSS 8.3% · 6,250 B
  • Inline JavaScript 23.9% · 18,076 B
  • Inline SVG 7.4% · 5,624 B

The individual blocks that weigh the most, so the fix is a search rather than a hunt:

  • Inline JavaScript · 8,565 B (11.3%) — unnamedopens var loadRollbar = true; var _rollbarConfig = { accessToken: "92ca14e1f
  • Inline CSS · 4,598 B (6.1%) — unnamedopens header.sticky-header .if-header-sticky{ display: block; } header.stick

What changed

  1. 2026-10-22a new finding appeared: links send crawlers to the same pages under many different addressesappeared
  2. 2026-10-15a new finding appeared: the sitemap does not say when anything changedappeared
  3. 2026-10-03score moved 81 → 82score-up

8 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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