Frequently asked questions
Do you store my website content?
Privacy. We do not retain the pages we scan: page text is analysed in memory and discarded when the scan completes, and full page bodies never reach disk. The report itself (the score, each check's status and findings, and the short bot-view extract of your page text, about 500 characters) is kept for two hours so you can export or share it, then permanently deleted by a sweep that runs every 15 minutes whether or not anyone is scanning. A share link shows that stored report for the same two hours and never extends them. A repeat scan of the same page within 30 minutes is answered from a result cache with the same report, and says so.
Separately, a minimal per-page history persists so a rescan of the same page can show what changed: the page address you entered (path and query, never the fragment), its score, which checks passed, and the scoring-model version, but never findings text, page content or the extract. A domain badge record (domain, score, statuses, and the token that lets you embed the badge) is written only when you scan a site's root page. A scan that never observed the page (your robots.txt disallowed us, or nothing answered) is kept for the two-hour export window like any other result but is never added to the history, the badge or the percentile.
Beyond that: rate-limit records keyed by your IP address (scan timestamps and the per-site cooldown), kept for 24 hours. Pages on this site load two analytics scripts, Google Analytics and Simple Analytics; neither is gated on a consent prompt or the Do Not Track signal. The PDF reports load nothing. The full description is on the About page.
Does this affect my website or SEO?
No. The tool is read-only and does not make changes to your site. A scan is at most three requests to your host, as CanAIReadMySiteBot; you can block it in robots.txt and we honour that before fetching.
Which AI systems does this apply to?
The checks are designed around how the crawlers behind AI assistants and AI-powered search fetch and parse webpages. We read your robots.txt for the 13 tokens those vendors document, and we fetch your page as our own, self-identifying crawler. We do not observe any assistant: nothing in a result measures whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or anything else reads, mentions, cites or ranks your page, or sends it traffic.
Does the result tell me what to fix?
Yes, for every check that fell short (the checks and their weights are on the methodology page). Each fix is derived only from the results: robots.txt items state what the file declares, content and structure items are heuristic suggestions, and a deliberate opt-out from AI training is never listed as something to undo. Every "fixing X → N" line is what this diagnostic model would report if that check reached its best status; it is not a prediction of traffic, citations or ranking.
Is this an SEO or optimization tool?
No. This is a technical diagnostic tool. It reports what was measured and lists the fixes that apply to the checks; it makes no promises about rankings, traffic or mentions. See what a scanner can't tell you.
Is llms.txt required?
No. It is optional guidance, worth 5 of 100 points in this model, and a site without one is not less readable to AI. We generate one because it is cheap to publish, not because it is required. What the file is, and what crawlers say about it.
