- Visibility13
- Citations1
- Sentiment50
- Site quality50
- AI readiness50
AI assistants name Choice Hotels in 11.7% of answers, more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 27 out of 100, ranking 1,517th of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks measuring how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named Choice Hotels. AI assistants named it in 7 of 60 answers (11.7%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Choice Hotels ranks 20 of 105 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.
105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Which midscale hotel brands are known for reliable free breakfast options?”
Many midscale hotel brands are known for offering reliable free breakfast options. These often include a variety of choices, from continental to hot items.
Here are some of the top midscale hotel brands recognized for their complimentary breakfast:
Hilton Brands:
Embassy Suites: Often praised for its cooked-to-order omelets and a substantial breakfast spread, including hot items like bacon, sausage, and home fries. They also offer a variety of juices, coffee, and baked goods.
Hampton by Hilton: A popular choice for free breakfast with both hot and cold dishes.
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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
Show every check, for your technical teamHide the checks
- 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 headersCould not check
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 negotiationCould not check
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 rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- 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 discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
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 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%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 53 of 100 · 79% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.choicehotels.com · 2,047 companies scanned
5 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%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Passedllms.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 7 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*allowed
- Claude-SearchBot*allowed
- PerplexityBot*allowed
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- Claude-User*allowed
- Perplexity-User*allowed
- 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-listed.
- Which midscale hotel brands are known for reliable free breakfast options?
- Which affordable hotel types accommodate large groups or families with suite-style rooms?
- How do weekday and weekend rates differ at economy hotels?
- What alternatives exist for travelers seeking extended stay accommodations besides hotels?
- What are some accommodation options for budget travelers apart from traditional hotel chains?
- Are midscale hotel loyalty programs valuable for frequent travelers?
- Are vacation rentals a good alternative to midscale hotels for business travel?
- Is it worth booking directly through a hotel chain’s website versus third-party sites?
- Business hotels vs. extended stay hotels—what are the main differences?
- What is the typical nightly rate range for a midscale hotel in the United States?
- What are the best budget-friendly hotel chains for families traveling in the US?
- What should I do if my prepaid hotel reservation in an economy chain is not recognized at check-in?
- How can guests resolve issues with cleanliness in affordable hotel accommodations?
- What types of hotel chains offer the best options for road trip stays across the US?
- How do economy hotels compare to midscale hotels in terms of amenities and comfort?
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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