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America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses

americasbest.com · Retail

Ranked 137 of 2,047 companies in the study

44Overall score
  • Visibility29
  • Citations1
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness21
What this means for America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses

AI assistants name America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses in 26.7% of answers. This is much higher than the typical company in the retail sector, which is named in 6.7% of answers. Its overall score is 44 out of 100, ranking 137th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses. AI assistants named it in 16 of 60 answers (26.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses ranks 106 of 640 in its sector.

Named by AI in
26.7%
16 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
32.7%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
38 of 640
by overall score, where the typical retail company scores 34
How America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
29

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
1

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
21

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with retail

640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score44
Ranks 38 of 640. Typical company: 34
Named in answers27%
Ranks 106 of 640. Typical company: 7%
AI readiness21
Ranks 351 of 640. Typical company: 29
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Where else can you get low-cost vision exams and glasses near me?”

You have several options for low-cost vision exams and glasses. Here's a breakdown:

Community Health Centers

Many community health centers offer affordable vision care services, including eye exams, vision tests, and prescriptions for corrective lenses. They can also help detect eye abnormalities and treat and manage eye diseases. Some even provide a sliding fee scale for eligible patients and accept various insurance plans like Medicare and Medicaid. To find one near you, you can use online search tools or contact your regular doctor for a referral.

Retailers and Warehouse Cl …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Walmart Vision Center5LensCrafters3
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Walmart Vision Center
45.5%
America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses
36.4%
LensCrafters
9.1%
Eyemart Express
4.5%
Visionworks
4.5%
My Eyelab
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
5/15
OpenAI
4/15
Perplexity
4/15
Claude
3/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Can an AI agent buy here?

Not by itself. America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.

  • UCPNot present
  • ACPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.americasbest.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

visioncenter.org
21
lens.com
17
allaboutvision.com
16
healthline.com
14
warbyparker.com
14
forbes.com
13
reddit.com
13
goodrx.com
11
1800contacts.com
11
nvisioncenters.com
10

In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.

Every question, and where the company came up (6 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Why are my contact lenses causing blurry vision right after purchase?
  • Are affordable eyewear packages reliable for daily wear?
  • Is it worth getting a bundled deal for eye exam and multiple pairs of glasses?
  • What should I do if my new prescription glasses feel uncomfortable?
  • Where else can you get low-cost vision exams and glasses near me?
  • Alternatives to in-store optical chains for affordable eye care
  • Options for low-cost eye exams for seniors
  • Where can families find budget-friendly contact lenses and eyewear?
  • Best deals on contact lenses for families without vision insurance
  • Typical price range for eye exams and two pairs of glasses in the US
  • Best places in the US to get affordable eye exams and prescription glasses
  • How much do basic prescription lenses usually cost without insurance?
  • Single-vision glasses vs progressive lenses for everyday use
  • Eye exam vs vision screening: what's the difference and which do I need?
  • Best types of prescription glasses for students on a tight budget
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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