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Serpstat — what a crawler receives from serpstat.com

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81
Cgrade

Answer engines can reach and read this site. It needs more it can quote.

AI visibility 81/100, measured 2026-10-05 00:17 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.

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

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2

findings

✓

llms.txt on its host

✗

entity map on its host

6

scans on record since 2026-08-14

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.

88

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.

77

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.

76

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

2 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 1 Note

1robots.txt rules do not apply to named agents3 named User-agent groups (3 agents) do not repeat 5 of the Disallow rules the `*` group carries. A crawler obeys only its own most-specific group and ignores `MediumSetting

What we saw

3 named User-agent groups (3 agents) do not repeat 5 of the Disallow rules the `*` group carries. A crawler obeys only its own most-specific group and ignores `*` entirely, so those rules do not apply to any of the named agents (some declare their own, different rules). Worst group: `ahrefsbot` bypasses /rate/, /files/, /blocked/, /node/*?origin=, */users/isAccountNoVerified/. /robots.txt

Why it matters

A crawler reads only the User-agent group that matches it best and ignores every other group, including `*`. Naming an agent and giving it only `Allow: /` therefore deletes all of your `*` Disallow rules for that agent. The file still parses and the agent still reaches your homepage, so this is invisible on inspection — but the paths you meant to keep out of search are open, and search engines will crawl and may index them.

How to fix it

Every User-agent group that names a crawler must repeat the Disallow rules you want applied. A named group with no rules means 'allow everything' for that crawler.

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

Why this was decided
RuleROBOTS_RULES_SHADOWED · rule pack sv27 · scope core
Evaluated2026-10-05 00:17:39 UTC
Decisiond1:dc86dc1b55d6ab7ea123 · finding f1:e665b0de05376e085bb1 resolve either at /api/graph/<id> with a key
Observercrawlcheck-worker build 71386c1f · audit v4

What it rests on

IdentityStatusBytessha256Kept
read: /robots.txt2005680c11e87b7972already_held

21 more in the manifest.

Artifacts: manifest:83bb01c7170d2a4b6ecb8b4cbc919587208272ecefee62c922cb2fff96154fa1

Grade effect Caps the letter at C. Without it the letter would be B (score 81). Moves no points; the score is built from the measured rows.

Rule ROBOTS_RULES_SHADOWED under scoring rules v28 · fingerprint ROBOTS_RULES_SHADOWED|/robots.txt · persisting (4 scans)

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

ROBOTS_RULES_SHADOWED · full transcript

2The machine files cost more than the 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 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 61,401 decompressed bytes the homepage delivers, 9.2% is text a reader or a model can actually use. Most of what a crawler downloads here is not words.

  • Readable text 9.2% · 5,670 B
  • Markup & attributes 63.8% · 39,153 B
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) 1.5% · 902 B
  • Inline JavaScript 11.5% · 7,056 B
  • Inline SVG 13.9% · 8,554 B
  • HTML comments 0.1% · 66 B

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

  • Inline JavaScript · 5,731 B (9.3%) — jQueryopens window._vwo_code || (function () { var account_id = 691145, version =

What changed

  1. 2026-09-18a named-agent group shadowed the wildcard rulesappeared
  2. 2026-09-18a new finding appeared: the machine files cost more than the pageappeared
  3. 2026-08-18resolved: robots.txt blocks every crawler it does not nameresolved

6 scans on record, first 2026-08-14. 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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