- Visibility28
- Citations2
- Sentiment88
- Site quality80
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Better World Books in 33.3% of answers, much more often than the typical retail company at 6.7%. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 222nd of 2,047 companies in the study. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks related to how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Better World Books. AI assistants named it in 20 of 60 answers (33.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Better World Books ranks 67 of 640 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
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Better World Books
Better World Books is a for-profit global e-retailer that collects and sells new and used books online, matching each purchase with a book donation. You can find one of their book drop boxes at a location near you and donate your books, and books are sold online to help raise funds for non-profit literacy organizations, wi …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
We could not tell. The website turned away our requests for the files an agent would read. An agent arriving by itself is turned away the same way.
- UCPCould not check
- ACPCould not check
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPCould not check
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtCould not check
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthCould not check
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdCould not check
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPNot met
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 43 of 100 · 56% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.betterworldbooks.com · 2,047 companies scanned
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.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- PassedExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- 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%
This website sets rules for 19 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*blocked
- ClaudeBot*blocked
- Anthropic-AI*blocked
- Google-Extended*blocked
- Applebot-Extended*blocked
- Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
- FacebookBot*allowed
- Bytespider*blocked
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbot*blocked
- Omgilibot*blocked
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBot*partly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebot*allowed
- Amazonbot*blocked
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-User*partly
- Perplexity-User*partly
- 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.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
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- Online used bookshops vs. local thrift stores for pricing and selection
- What should I do if I receive a damaged or incorrect book from an online bookstore?
- Are shipping fees usually included with online book orders in the US?
- How to track a delayed book order from online used bookstores
- Best online bookstores for affordable used fiction books in the US
- Typical price range for used bestsellers at online bookstores
- Other ways to support global literacy besides purchasing from online bookstores
- Is buying books from an online bookstore that donates to literacy programs worth it?
- Best way to build an affordable home library using online bookshops
- Alternatives to online shopping for affordable books in the United States
- Is it better to buy new or used books online for college textbooks?
- Where to find new releases at discounted prices online
- Are online used books reliable in terms of quality and condition?
- Online bookshops offering curated selections under $5
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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