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Knowatoa — what a crawler receives from knowatoa.com

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AI assistants like ChatGPT can find, read and quote your site. 1 small thing to tidy.

AI visibility 90/100, measured 2026-10-30 13:03 UTC from outside its network, as each named AI and search crawler and as a browser. An engine can reach this site, read it, and quote a specific fact about it. That is the whole job.

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1

finding

✓

llms.txt on its host

✗

entity map on its host

8

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.

98

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.

81

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

1 finding on this site. Every one is named below; the top one is shown in full, free. Want it fixed for you? We implement it and re-measure.

1 Note

1The homepage is reached through a chain of redirectshttp://www.knowatoa.com/ takes 2 redirects to reach the page: 301 permanent (http→https) → 301 permanent (www→apex) → https://knowatoa.com/ (200). Point the firNoteSetting

What we saw

http://www.knowatoa.com/ takes 2 redirects to reach the page: 301 permanent (http→https) → 301 permanent (www→apex) → https://knowatoa.com/ (200). Point the first redirect straight at the final address.

Why it matters

Reaching the homepage takes more than one redirect, for example http to https and then the domain to www. Each hop is another request and round trip before a crawler or visitor gets the page, temporary hops (302, 307) tell search engines to keep the old address, and Google stops following after ten.

How to fix it

Send every old address straight to the final one in a single permanent (301 or 308) redirect: in the host, CDN or plugin rules, redirect http://domain and http://www straight to the final https address instead of chaining scheme, host and path fixes.

Setting: a setting on the server, CDN, DNS or a plugin — no code and no writing

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You are working in the codebase (or server/CDN configuration) that serves knowatoa.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: The homepage is reached through a chain of redirects (REDIRECT_CHAIN, note severity)
Page: https://knowatoa.com/
What was measured: http://www.knowatoa.com/ takes 2 redirects to reach the page: 301 permanent (http→https) → 301 permanent (www→apex) → https://knowatoa.com/ (200). Point the first redirect straight at the final address.
Why it matters: Reaching the homepage takes more than one redirect, for example http to https and then the domain to www. Each hop is another request and round trip before a crawler or visitor gets the page, temporary hops (302, 307) tell search engines to keep the old address, and Google stops following after ten.
How to fix it: Send every old address straight to the final one in a single permanent (301 or 308) redirect: in the host, CDN or plugin rules, redirect http://domain and http://www straight to the final https address instead of chaining scheme, host and path fixes.

Rule and examples: https://crawlcheck.io/rules/REDIRECT_CHAIN
Full report (markdown): https://crawlcheck.io/r/c6fm6odp8s.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=knowatoa.com . The fix counts when REDIRECT_CHAIN is gone from the new report.
Why this was decided
RuleREDIRECT_CHAIN · rule pack sv34 · scope core
Evaluated2026-10-30 13:03:52 UTC
Decisiond1:d7f6188d1797aff26c5b · finding f1:6176a0235976e4c65e54 resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build 48134344 from LAX · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
crawlcheck200113,1210e4dc0fe2641kept
anon200113,109a0f05c3bd06bkept
gptbot200113,10907b31c30bc68kept
claudebot200113,0693c408b7c2970kept
oaisearch200113,069edbd7e74a7cekept
claudesearch200113,069946e5c78062ekept
perplexity200113,109e3359c1b7d3bkept
googlebot200113,069a0b140122326kept

14 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:a631584aa6f779441b19a6b8c902f6f09948c4444e959fe9e54ea983919d2201

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 REDIRECT_CHAIN under scoring rules v34 · fingerprint REDIRECT_CHAIN|/ · persisting (3 scans)

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

REDIRECT_CHAIN · full transcript

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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 113,037 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 8.5% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 8.5% · 9,565 B
  • Markup & attributes 56.2% · 63,515 B
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) 3.1% · 3,533 B
  • Inline CSS 13.7% · 15,500 B
  • Inline JavaScript 14% · 15,844 B
  • Inline SVG 3.2% · 3,673 B
  • HTML comments 1.2% · 1,407 B

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

  • Inline JavaScript · 11,625 B (10.3%) — unnamedopens { "imports": { "application": "/assets/application-59c33c643d4e39a1e3b
  • Inline CSS · 10,079 B (8.9%) — unnamedopens /* ============ Knowatoa homepage (scoped) ============ */ .knowatoa-h
  • Inline CSS · 5,303 B (4.7%) — unnamedopens .knowatoa-home .k-browser { position: relative; background: #fff; bord
  • Inline JavaScript · 2,784 B (2.5%) — unnamedopens // PostHog !function(t,e){var o,n,p,r;e.__SV||(window.posthog=e,e._i=[
Section average over 2 scans on this score version · held at 90 since 2026-10-30
0501002026-10-23 09:04 · 88/100 · 1 finding2026-10-30 13:03 · 90/100 · 1 finding2026-10-232026-10-30

What changed

  1. 2026-10-30score moved 88 → 89score-up
  2. 2026-10-23resolved: the sitemap does not say when anything changedresolved
  3. 2026-10-23robots.txt named a sitemapresolved
  4. 2026-10-16the homepage began taking more than one redirect to reachappeared
  5. 2026-10-01score moved 84 → 86score-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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