- Visibility0
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness64
AI assistants do not name The Bon-Ton in any of their answers to market questions. Its overall score is 30 out of 100, ranking 1,269th of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 9 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named The Bon-Ton. AI assistants named it in none of 60 answers. The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, The Bon-Ton ranks 503 of 640 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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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.
The company is not named in this answer
“Best types of apparel to buy from an off-price department store for everyday wear”
Here are some of the best types of apparel to buy from off-price department stores for everyday wear:
Basics and Essentials
T-shirts and long-sleeve shirts - These are wardrobe staples that work well at any price point
Jeans and casual pants - Durable everyday bottoms that represent good value
Sweaters and cardigans - Layering pieces that hold up well over time
Undergarments and socks - Functional items where brand quality matters but discounts provide real savings
Outerwear
Casual jackets and blazers - Off-price stores often have good selections at reduced prices
Hoodies …
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
Yes. The Bon-Ton publishes a UCP profile, a file that tells an AI agent how to buy, and it includes checkout.
- UCPPublished
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
The page also offers an agent tools inside the browser: add to cart, proceed to checkout, update cart lines.
The shop runs on Shopify.
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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.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- 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 AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryPassed
OpenID Connect or OAuth metadata agents can use to sign in.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourcePassed
Metadata telling agents which authorization server to use.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPPassed
Tools registered in the browser through navigator.modelContext.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 45 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · bonton.com · 2,047 companies scanned
9 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%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- PassedOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- PassedWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
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.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- 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.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as Consumer brands.
- Best types of apparel to buy from an off-price department store for everyday wear
- How to handle returns on discounted or final sale apparel from online department stores
- Where can I find discounted designer apparel online in the US?
- What to do if your online order from an off-price department store arrives damaged?
- How to shop for plus size dresses at off-price department stores online
- What price range should I expect for sweaters and pants at off-price department stores online?
- Best affordable department store sites for women's and men's basics
- Online vs in-store off-price shopping for fashion—what's better for deals?
- Is it worth buying final sale items from online off-price department stores?
- Department store clearance vs typical sale sections—what are the main differences?
- Do online off-price department stores offer quality branded apparel?
- Alternatives to department store shopping for affordable fashion basics online
- How do off-price department stores compare to outlet malls for savings on clothing?
- Are department store basics like sweaters and pants a good value when shopping discounted?
- How to build a wardrobe on a budget using online department store deals
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.