How to test if AI can read your website
Find what stops AI reading your site — and get your full report with the exact fixes.
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
PerplexityInstant preview · Full report free by email
Includes all AI platforms and all five readiness categories.
canairead.me
How to test if AI can read your website · Full AI readiness report included
Example AI readiness report
canairead.me · 92/100
What we check
This is the step-by-step diagnostic companion to the homepage tool: establish crawler access, compare raw and rendered content, inspect entity signals, make one evidence-based fix, and rescan. It explains the workflow rather than promising measured AI visibility.
- A repeatable access → render → understand → rescan workflow
- How to separate robots.txt access from CDN or login blocking
- How to compare meaningful raw HTML with the rendered page
- How to verify fixes without mistaking readiness for citations
Passing technical checks is only the starting point. Read why your site might not show up in ChatGPT to work through access, rendering and content issues before expecting citations.
See exactly what is tested and what a score cannot prove in the scan methodology and limitations.
Common problems
"Readable" but not "understandable"
Text is technically extractable, but the business purpose is buried in marketing language rather than stated plainly.
Single-page app shell
The initial HTML response contains almost no content — everything loads client-side.
How to fix them
Server-render primary content
Make sure your core message exists in the HTML response itself, not only after JavaScript runs.
Say what you do, plainly, once
One clear sentence near the top of the page beats five clever ones scattered through it.
Frequently asked
Why would AI not read my site if Google indexes it fine?
Googlebot and AI-specific crawlers are different systems with different rules and different rendering behaviour. Being indexed by Google doesn't guarantee AI crawler access or understanding.
Does this check a single page or my whole site?
We start from your homepage and the signals it exposes — robots.txt, sitemap and core structure — to give a site-wide picture in seconds.