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The AI readiness checklist: 20 checks before AI assistants read your site

October 27, 2026 · 6 min read

Threadly's free audit scores a site out of 100 across five groups. Each check is a plain pass or fail you can verify yourself. The score measures readiness to be read and understood, not a promise that any assistant will cite you.

AI crawler access (32 points)

  • AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt
  • robots.txt published
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt
  • llms.txt published

Technical health (22 points)

  • Homepage answers 200
  • Served over HTTPS
  • First response within 1.5 seconds
  • Mobile viewport set
  • Language declared on the html tag

Content clarity (18 points)

  • A title of 10 to 70 characters
  • A meta description of 50 to 170 characters
  • Exactly one h1
  • A canonical URL

Structured data (18 points)

  • Schema.org JSON-LD present
  • An Organization, Product or SoftwareApplication type
  • Open Graph title and image for share previews

Business signals (10 points)

  • Pricing linked from the homepage
  • Contact or demo linked
  • Privacy policy linked
  • LinkedIn or X company profile linked

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