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Hugging Face — what a crawler receives from huggingface.co

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73
Cgrade

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

AI visibility 73/100, measured 2026-11-02 00:55 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.

Held at C A medium-severity finding sets the letter.

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851. ReachCan a named answer-engine crawler get your pages at all?782. ReadOnce it has the bytes, can it find the words?533. QuoteIs there a specific fact it can state and attribute?

6

findings

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llms.txt on its host

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entity map on its host

10

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.

85

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.

78

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.

53

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

6 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 5 Note

1Almost nothing a machine receives from this page is readable text2.5% of 179,040 decompressed bytes is visible text, and the largest single block is inline svg at 2,957 bytesMediumDeveloper

What we saw

2.5% of 179,040 decompressed bytes is visible text, and the largest single block is inline svg at 2,957 bytes

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.

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Finding: Almost nothing a machine receives from this page is readable text (PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE, medium severity)
Page: https://huggingface.co/
What was measured: 2.5% of 179,040 decompressed bytes is visible text, and the largest single block is inline svg at 2,957 bytes
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.

Rule and examples: https://crawlcheck.io/rules/PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE
Full report (markdown): https://crawlcheck.io/r/xjmpowickf.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=huggingface.co . The fix counts when PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE is gone from the new report.
Why this was decided
RulePAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE · rule pack sv34 · scope route
Evaluated2026-11-02 00:55:19 UTC
Decisiond1:384683e087a9df173620 · finding f1:3641ed56dcedcfa3fabb resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build 44df76a8 from IAD · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
read: /200179,130336d0dfc18e3kept

24 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:e3500531aabc9c730393ea010f77c4fcb7afdb4aeb27c79c8ec4a07cd98bbedb

Grade effect Caps the letter at C. Without it the letter would be B (score 73). Moves no points; the score is built from the measured rows.

Rule PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE under scoring rules v34 · fingerprint PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE|/ · persisting (12 scans)

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

PAGE_IS_MOSTLY_CODE · 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
4The ARD manifest is valid but its entries will not be found by search/.well-known/ai-catalog.json🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note
5The ARD manifest is served only under its old name/.well-known/ai-catalog.json🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note
6A missing agent file answers with a full page🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note

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Sites like yours that fixed the same problem

Matched on Amazon CloudFront. A fix counts once two readings confirm it; sites are not named. Read from the technology record of 2026-10-31.

serves no /llms.txt

7 sites on a stack like yours have made this fix (Published llms.txt); 7 still hold it. 75 on any stack.

  • similar site A (Amazon CloudFront; shares CDN): fixed 2026-10-31, still fixed today
  • similar site B (Amazon CloudFront; shares CDN): fixed 2026-10-31, still fixed today
  • similar site C (Amazon CloudFront; shares CDN): fixed 2026-10-24, still fixed today

The signed answer lists every match.

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 179,040 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 2.5% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 2.5% · 4,563 B
  • Markup & attributes 37.1% · 66,338 B
  • Inline JavaScript 1.2% · 2,196 B
  • Inline SVG 54.3% · 97,298 B
  • HTML comments 4.8% · 8,645 B

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

  • Inline SVG · 2,957 B (1.7%) — .mr-1.5opens <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M0.625 5C0.625 6.1603
  • Inline SVG · 2,613 B (1.5%) — .mr-1.5opens <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M9.92865 7.42863H10.6
  • Inline SVG · 2,209 B (1.2%) — .mr-1.5opens <path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M5.44971 14.5964L5.44
  • Inline SVG · 2,196 B (1.2%) — .mr-1.5opens <path d="M128.001 0C57.317 0 0 57.307 0 128.001c0 56.554 36.676 104.53
  • Inline SVG · 2,179 B (1.2%) — .text-xsopens <path d="M128.001 0C57.317 0 0 57.307 0 128.001c0 56.554 36.676 104.53
Section average over 3 scans on this score version · held at 73 since 2026-11-02
0501002026-10-23 05:06 · 76/100 · 4 findings2026-10-30 07:04 · 75/100 · 4 findings2026-11-02 00:55 · 73/100 · 6 findings2026-10-232026-11-02

What changed

  1. 2026-11-02score moved 80 → 79score-down
  2. 2026-11-02a new finding appeared: the ard manifest is valid but its entries will not be found by searchappeared
  3. 2026-11-02a new finding appeared: the ard manifest is served only under its old nameappeared
  4. 2026-10-30score moved 82 → 80score-down
  5. 2026-10-16the homepage began taking more than one redirect to reachappeared

10 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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