- Visibility29
- Citations2
- Sentiment61
- Site quality87
- AI readiness57
AI assistants name David's Bridal in 25% of their answers, which is much more often than the typical company in the retail sector. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 236th of 2,047 companies measured. The company website passes 8 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named David's Bridal. AI assistants named it in 15 of 60 answers (25.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, David's Bridal ranks 116 of 640 in its sector.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named
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
“Where can you find budget-friendly formalwear for prom besides specialty dress stores?”
You can find budget-friendly formalwear for prom at big online retailers and department stores, not just specialty dress shops. Good options in the search results include Lulus, ASOS, Nordstrom, JCPenney, Macy’s, Amazon, Shein, and David’s Bridal.
Other low-cost places mentioned are thrift stores, rentals like Rent the Runway, and resale or “pre-loved” sections that can cut the price about in half. Local community programs can also offer free or very low-cost prom clothing, like the Priceless Prom Project and similar don …
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.
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
Yes. David's Bridal 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 shop runs on Shopify.
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 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 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.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%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 43 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.davidsbridal.com · 2,047 companies scanned
8 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 checksHide them
- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- PassedHTTP 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%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- PassedOAuth 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 8 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*allowed
- ClaudeBot*allowed
- Anthropic-AI*allowed
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extended*allowed
- Meta-ExternalAgent*allowed
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*allowed
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbot*allowed
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- 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 US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- Where can you find budget-friendly formalwear for prom besides specialty dress stores?
- What’s the price range for bridesmaid dresses in specialty shops versus big-box stores?
- Where can you find formal attire for both brides and bridesmaids in one location?
- What are good alternatives to traditional bridal shops for buying wedding dresses?
- What are the differences between shopping for bridesmaid dresses at department stores vs. specialty bridal shops?
- Should you order a bridesmaid dress online or purchase one in-store for better fit and convenience?
- How can you avoid delays when ordering a wedding dress or bridesmaid gown?
- Is it worth buying a wedding gown from an off-the-rack retailer?
- How do bridal boutiques compare to online formalwear retailers for wedding dresses?
- Where can you shop for a wide selection of prom dresses with inclusive sizing?
- How much should you expect to spend on a wedding gown at a typical US bridal retailer?
- What are some options for last-minute prom dress shopping?
- What should I do if my formal dress arrives and the fit isn’t right?
- What are some options for renting a bridal gown instead of purchasing one?
- What are the best places to find affordable bridal gowns in the US?
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.
A badge of this result that you can show on your own website. Copy the code below.
<a href="https://aeo-audit.rezolve.com/us/davidsbridal.com"><img src="https://aeo-audit.rezolve.com/us/badges/davidsbridal.com.svg" alt="Overall score 42 of 100, US AI Visibility Study 2026" width="280" height="64"></a>