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83/100
Readable

Readable 70+ · Partly readable 45–69 · Hard to read below 45

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Assistants can now reach every part of this shop, and all 214 products show a price and stock that software can read. Two things are still open. Sizing detail is stuck inside pictures on 61 products, and page speed got worse during the work, because of a reviews add-on we installed. Both are listed below, with a name and a date against them.

AI readiness62 / 75

Was 25.5 of 75 at baseline

Search basics21 / 25

Was 16.5 of 25 at baseline

1 Fail 2 Needs work 8 Pass
Baseline 12 Jul → re-measure 24 Jul
42 → 83

Hard to read → Readable

  • Five checks moved from fail or warn to pass
  • Two remain open, both with a named owner and a date
  • One check went backwards: page speed, and we caused it

All eleven checks, before and after

CheckWeightBaselineAfterPoints
AI assistant access25Needs workPass25.0
Product details22FailPass22.0
Shop summary10FailPass10.0
Answers on the page10Needs workNeeds work5.0
Page speed8PassFail0.0
Titles and descriptions5Needs workPass5.0
One main web address4PassPass4.0
Headings4FailNeeds work2.0
Image descriptions4Needs workNeeds work2.0
Page list4PassPass4.0
Secure address4PassPass4.0

62.0 + 21.0 = 83. All eleven checks counted, nothing left out. The sums are on the method page.

Page speed got worse, not better. A reviews add-on we installed during the work holds up the product description. We broke it, we are fixing it at no charge, and it costs this report 8 points. A report that shows only improvements is not evidence.

Verified findings

AI checks · 75 points

The same shape as the free scan report, with the work done and the re-check attached. Open items first.

Does your page load in time? 8 pts Fail

Product descriptions now arrive about 1.9 seconds after the rest of the page, because the reviews add-on loads first. At the baseline this check passed. An assistant that does not wait will read the page without the description.

WHAT TO DO NEXTNothing for you to do. We move the add-on below the description on 29 Jul, check again the same day, and there is no charge, because we caused it.
Show the technical detail (for your developer)
Largest contentful paint 4.1s (baseline 2.6s)
Blocking: /wp-content/plugins/reviews/bundle.js (defer)
Do your pages answer what shoppers ask? 10 pts Needs work

Materials, care and returns are written out on every product. Sizing is still a picture on 61 products, so nothing can read it. This is the same grade as the baseline, because it was not part of the work we agreed.

WHAT TO DO NEXTType the size chart out as text on those 61 products. About three hours, no developer needed, and the size-chart playbook has the steps. Worth 5 points.
Can AI assistants reach your shop at all? 25 pts Pass

The tracked AI crawler rules now allow access to your product pages, including addresses with sizes and tags in them. Google-Extended is also allowed, which is a robots.txt setting Google honors for AI training and grounding, not a separate visitor in your logs. At the baseline, two crawler rules were blocked by a catch-all rule.

KEEPCheck again after any change to robots.txt, your hosting rules, or a security plugin. This is the check most likely to break quietly.
Show the technical detail (for your developer)
robots.txt: per-bot rules replacing "Disallow: /*?*"
GPTBot, BingBot, Applebot-Extended, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot,
Claude-SearchBot → allowed on /product/*?variant=*
Google-Extended → allowed for Google AI training and grounding
Do your product pages show a price software can read? 22 pts Pass

All 214 products now give a price, a currency and a stock level in a form software can read, and they match what a shopper sees. At the baseline, 176 gave a price, none gave stock, and 38 gave nothing at all.

214 of 214 products, up from 176
KEEPDone in the theme template, so new products get it too. A theme update can overwrite that template, which is what monitoring is for.
Is there a plain summary of what your shop sells? 10 pts Pass

There is now a one page summary file, llms.txt, listing what you sell, how it is grouped, where you deliver and how long returns take. At the baseline there was nothing, so an assistant had to guess the shop from its product pages.

KEEPUpdate it when your categories change. Monitoring tells you when the summary and the shop no longer match.
Show the technical detail (for your developer)
GET https://northline-outfitters.example/llms.txt
→ 200 OK  (baseline: 404 Not Found)

Search basics

Scored · 25 points

Same scale, same grading. No keyword or ranking data appears here, because we do not collect any.

Is there one clear heading on each page? 4 pts Needs work

The product name is now the main heading on all 214 product pages. On 14 pages a banner still carries a second main heading competing with it, which is why this is Needs work rather than a Pass.

WHAT TO DO NEXTTurn the banner heading into a smaller one on those 14 pages, in your page builder. Ten minutes, worth 2 points.
Do your images describe themselves? 4 pts Needs work

Every main product image now has a written description, done by hand. 218 of the extra images still have none, down from 412. This also matters to shoppers using a screen reader.

WHAT TO DO NEXTWork through the extra images as you edit products, rather than in one sitting. Getting to a pass is worth 2 points.
Does every page have a title and a description? 5 pts Pass

All 214 product pages have their own title and their own description. At the baseline, 41 had no description and 12 shared one. The new ones were written from the short product summary, then read by hand.

KEEPNew products need that summary filled in for this to hold.
Does each product have one main web address? 4 pts Pass

Unchanged from the baseline. Every page points back to one main address, including the versions with sizes and tracking tags in them.

KEEPNo action needed.
Is your list of pages up to date? 4 pts Pass

Unchanged from the baseline. All 214 products are listed, robots.txt points to the list, and it is rebuilt daily.

KEEPNo action needed.
Is the whole shop on a secure address? 4 pts Pass

Unchanged from the baseline. Every page uses the secure https address, the certificate is valid, and the older addresses jump straight there in one step.

KEEPNo action needed.