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.
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.