Report

The State of AI Readiness, 2026

We scan the homepages of well-known sites the way AI crawlers see them — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Gemini, Grok and Doubao — and grade each 0–100. This is what the data says about how ready the web is for AI answer engines.

Based on 42 sites across 2 industries, scored between 2026-07-09 and 2026-07-09 from our scheduled scans. Every figure is reproducible from the public score data — methodology. Homepage-only; personal sites excluded.

84/100
Average score
77%
Score an A or B
19%
Score an F
GPTBot · 0% poor
Hardest agent

Grade distribution

A
67%
B
10%
C
5%
D
0%
F
19%

Which AI crawlers struggle most

Share of sites that score a D or F for each agent — higher means harder to read.

GPTBot
0%
ClaudeBot
0%
PerplexityBot
0%
Gemini
0%
Grok
0%
Doubao
0%

Best and worst industries

Average AI Readiness Score by industry.

SaaS (25)
85
E-commerce (17)
82

See the live rankings on the industry leaderboards.

How your own site scores: run a free scan. Method + weights: methodology.