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Protect AI — what a crawler receives from protectai.com

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Dgrade

Answer engines are being served something other than this site.

AI visibility 62/100, measured 2026-10-12 02:05 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 D A high-severity finding sets the letter.

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findings

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llms.txt on its host

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entity map on its host

7

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.

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Stage 1 · 40% of the score

Reach

Can a named answer-engine crawler get your pages at all?

At least one answer engine was refused, challenged or served less than a browser.

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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.

51

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

7 findings on this site, 4 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 High 3 Medium 3 Note

1No XML sitemap foundNo sitemap at any conventional path and none declared.HighDeveloper

What we saw

No sitemap at any conventional path and none declared.

Why it matters

Without a sitemap, discovery depends entirely on internal linking. Orphaned and recently published pages may never be found.

How to fix it

Publish a sitemap at /sitemap.xml (most CMSs generate one) and name it in robots.txt.

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

Why this was decided
RuleNO_SITEMAP_FOUND · rule pack sv31 · scope core
Evaluated2026-10-12 02:05:18 UTC
Decisiond1:87459862a19d27daaf59 · finding f1:caa3f274d67494f735e3 resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build a0b27a0e · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
read: /sitemap.xml404254,449ba7993cf3321already_held
read: /sitemap_index.xml404254,449ba7993cf3321already_held
read: /wp-sitemap.xml404254,449ba7993cf3321already_held

19 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:89794071b5faa15b76170408fc86db7b984127d9606e48472c807d6bea53503a

Grade effect Caps the letter at D. Without it the letter would be C (score 62). Moves no points; the score is built from the measured rows.

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

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

NO_SITEMAP_FOUND · full transcript

2robots.txt does not return 200/robots.txt🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Medium
3The homepage sends crawlers to a different hostname🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Medium
4Almost nothing a machine receives from this page is readable text🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Medium
5The 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
6No llms.txt/llms.txt🔒 What we saw, why it matters, the fix and the evidence bytes are in the licensed report.Note
7A 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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The chain a crawler follows

The chain breaks at robots.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 710,782 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 1.4% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 1.4% · 10,137 B
  • Markup & attributes 9% · 63,842 B
  • Inline CSS 45.2% · 321,042 B
  • Inline JavaScript 25.8% · 183,730 B
  • Inline SVG 16.9% · 120,193 B
  • HTML comments 1.7% · 11,838 B

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

  • Inline CSS · 271,630 B (38.2%) — unnamedopens \s*$/g;d.extend({htmlPrefilter:function(a){return a},clone:function(a,
  • Inline SVG · 119,060 B (16.8%) — unnamedopens <defs><style> .cls-1 { fill: url(#linear-gradient-11); filter: url(#ou
  • Inline JavaScript · 93,959 B (13.2%) — jQueryopens /* jQuery v3.6.1 | (c) OpenJS Foundation and other contributors | jque
  • Inline JavaScript · 46,887 B (6.6%) — jQueryopens /* JavaScript Cookie v2.2.1 https://github.com/js-cookie/js-cookie Cop
  • Inline CSS · 26,204 B (3.7%) — unnamedopens .coveo-visible-to-screen-reader-only { position: absolute; left: -1000

What changed

  1. 2026-10-12the homepage began taking more than one redirect to reachappeared
  2. 2026-09-27robots.txt named a sitemapresolved
  3. 2026-09-27robots.txt no longer returned HTMLresolved
  4. 2026-09-27resolved: www and the apex both serve the site instead of one redirectingresolved
  5. 2026-09-27a new finding appeared: robots.txt does not return 200 againreturned
  6. 2026-09-27the homepage redirected off its own host againreturned
  7. 2026-09-22the homepage no longer redirected off its own hostresolved
  8. 2026-09-22resolved: this domain is an alias: every path redirects to another siteresolved
  9. 2026-09-22robots.txt no longer named a sitemapappeared
  10. 2026-09-22robots.txt returned HTMLappeared
  11. 2026-09-22the homepage read as mostly markup againreturned
  12. 2026-09-22no sitemap could be found againreturned

7 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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