entity map
A pair of files - JSON for machines, an HTML twin for people - listing the entities a site claims to be about.
What entity map does not show
The measurement that matters is not whether the pair exists but whether the two halves agree.
Where entity map comes up on this site
- AI visibility tools compared: what each one measuresWhen 33 of them were run through a supply-side scanner, none published an entity map.
- XML sitemap audit: check the file and every URL in itWhatever else lives on the domain, llms.txt and any entity map included, should not recommend URLs the sitemap and the pages reject.
- Stale cached robots.txt or llms.txt? Two fetches tell yourobots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap.xml and an entity map are small files that rarely change, which is exactly what a CDN caches hardest.
- AI visibility vendors audited: 11 of 23 have llms.txtDisclosure: CrawlCheck publishes this piece and sells a tool in the same category. crawlcheck.io is not in its own corpus, because a scanner cannot grade its own host from the outside view it uses for everyone else; check our files from any client you…
- Seven site types, and the report checks we correctedA missing llms.txt or entity map still fails the machine-layer checks, which exist to measure exactly that; see whether llms.txt works for what the file does and does not do.
Definitions that name entity map
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Questions about entity map
What is entity map?
A pair of files - JSON for machines, an HTML twin for people - listing the entities a site claims to be about.
What does entity map not show or guarantee?
The measurement that matters is not whether the pair exists but whether the two halves agree.
Which area of the glossary does entity map belong to?
Machine files: The files addressed to machines rather than readers, and what publishing one does and does not buy.
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