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AI assistants like ChatGPT can reach your site, but get very little they can use.

AI visibility 72/100, measured 2026-10-27 07:34 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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891. ReachCan a named answer-engine crawler get your pages at all?852. ReadOnce it has the bytes, can it find the words?363. QuoteIs there a specific fact it can state and attribute?

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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.

85

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.

36

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

4 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.

1 Low 3 Note

1The sitemap does not say when anything changed29 URLs listed, none carrying a lastmod date.LowContent

What we saw

29 URLs listed, none carrying a lastmod date. /sitemap.xml

Why it matters

The sitemap lists URLs but carries no lastmod dates, so it says what exists and not what changed. A crawler with a budget uses lastmod to decide what to re-fetch; without it, the choice is made for you — usually by re-crawling little and late. This is the change signal every crawler already understands, and unlike a push protocol it needs no key, no account and no participation from the search engine.

How to fix it

Add <lastmod> dates to sitemap entries so a crawler can prioritise pages that changed.

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

On Webflow (detected)

  1. Site settings → SEO → Sitemap: turn on auto-generate, then publish. It is served at /sitemap.xml.
  2. Pages excluded from search (page settings) are left out.

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Finding: The sitemap does not say when anything changed (SITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD, low severity)
Page: https://gauge.sh/sitemap.xml
What was measured: 29 URLs listed, none carrying a lastmod date.
Why it matters: The sitemap lists URLs but carries no lastmod dates, so it says what exists and not what changed. A crawler with a budget uses lastmod to decide what to re-fetch; without it, the choice is made for you — usually by re-crawling little and late. This is the change signal every crawler already understands, and unlike a push protocol it needs no key, no account and no participation from the search engine.
How to fix it: Add <lastmod> dates to sitemap entries so a crawler can prioritise pages that changed.
Detected platform: Webflow. Make the change where this platform controls it.
Rule and examples: https://crawlcheck.io/rules/SITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD
Full report (markdown): https://crawlcheck.io/r/4slmjuh513.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=gauge.sh . The fix counts when SITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD is gone from the new report.
Why this was decided
RuleSITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD · rule pack sv34 · scope core
Evaluated2026-10-27 07:34:35 UTC
Decisiond1:8b7f12774e48bc16166d · finding f1:c5df6132a7dc9c238640 resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build c1d5ec39 · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
read: /sitemap.xml2002,79252572d587f9aalready_held
read: /sitemap_index.xml40412,5688390a12de039already_held
read: /wp-sitemap.xml40412,5688390a12de039already_held

21 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:2eb9b5d66beb73a043fbfd9e46acd6d4d191fd44707fac078a4ed0f131cda995

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 SITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD under scoring rules v34 · fingerprint SITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD|/sitemap.xml · persisting (9 scans)

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

SITEMAP_NO_LASTMOD · full transcript

2The homepage is reached through a chain of redirects🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note
3No llms.txt/llms.txt🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note
4Visitors and crawlers are being served an old copy of this page🔒 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 43,933 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 4.3% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 4.3% · 1,889 B
  • Markup & attributes 89.2% · 39,171 B
  • Inline CSS 0.2% · 68 B
  • Inline JavaScript 5.3% · 2,322 B
  • HTML comments 1.1% · 483 B

What changed

  1. 2026-10-10the homepage began taking more than one redirect to reachappeared
  2. 2026-10-01score moved 77 → 79score-up
  3. 2026-10-01a stale edge copy was served againreturned
  4. 2026-09-24the stale edge copy clearedresolved
  5. 2026-09-21a stale edge copy was servedappeared

9 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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