Can AI crawlers read vercel.com?
AI crawlers can read some of this site. The fixes below close the gaps. 6 of 20 checks failed.
Scored 73/100 on 2026-10-14 from https://vercel.com/
What an AI crawler gets
The first 400 characters of text in the HTML, before any JavaScript runs.
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3,698 characters of readable text
Which AI crawlers are allowed
| Crawler | robots.txt says |
|---|---|
| GPTBot | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBot | Blocked |
| ClaudeBot | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBot | Blocked |
| PerplexityBot | Blocked |
| Perplexity-User | Blocked |
| Google-Extended | Blocked |
| CCBot | Blocked |
| Bytespider | Blocked |
| Amazonbot | Blocked |
Score by category
Fixes, biggest first
Let GPTBot crawl the site
Your robots.txt blocks OpenAI's crawler, so ChatGPT learns about you only from other sites.
Let ClaudeBot crawl the site
Your robots.txt blocks Anthropic's crawler, so Claude learns about you only from other sites.
Let PerplexityBot crawl the site
Your robots.txt blocks Perplexity's crawler, so it can't cite your pages in answers.
Add real copy to the page
Readable text is a tiny share of the page's code, or there's very little of it. Crawlers summarise words, not markup.
Offer a machine-readable interface
A valid /openapi.json or /llms-full.txt lets AI agents use your product or read your docs in full, not just your homepage.
Mirror llms.txt at /.well-known/llms.txt
Some tools look in the .well-known folder instead. A copy of the same file covers both.
14 checks passed
- Publish a robots.txt file (4 points)
- Add an llms.txt file (3 points)
- Put your words in the HTML (18 points)
- Stop serving an empty app shell (10 points)
- Give the page an h1 heading (4 points)
- Use semantic HTML tags (4 points)
- Add structured data (JSON-LD) (6 points)
- Describe your organisation in JSON-LD (4 points)
- Write a descriptive page title (3 points)
- Add a meta description (3 points)
- Add Open Graph tags (2 points)
- Add a canonical link (2 points)
- Publish a sitemap.xml (6 points)
- Keep sitemap dates fresh (4 points)