- Visibility10
- Citations2
- Sentiment67
- Site quality87
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name Do it Best in 11.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in retail. Its overall score is 34 out of 100, ranking it 901st of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Do it Best. AI assistants named it in 7 of 60 answers (11.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Do it Best ranks 234 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
“What are the best places to buy hardware supplies for weekend DIY projects?”
For weekend DIY projects, you have a variety of excellent options for purchasing hardware supplies, ranging from large home improvement warehouses to specialized woodworking stores and convenient online retailers.
Large Home Improvement Stores:
The Home Depot is a popular choice for both contractors and homeowners, offering a vast selection of building materials, tools, and hardware. They provide a wide range of lumber and construction products, and their online store often has more options than what's available in-store.
Lowe's is another major retailer with a wide selec …
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
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
- MPPNot present
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 DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- 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.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- 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 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.mdNot met
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%WebMCPCould not check
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 48 of 100 · 66% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.doitbest.com · 2,047 companies scanned
4 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%
- 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 6 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBot*allowed
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBot*allowed
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBot*allowed
- PerplexityBot*allowed
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- 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 retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- What should I check if my newly bought garden tools are rusting after only a few uses?
- Is it worth purchasing power tools from a specialty hardware retailer instead of a general merchandise store?
- How do lumber yards compare to general home improvement stores for quality and selection?
- How do seasonal sales at home improvement stores affect pricing for tools and supplies?
- Where can I find eco-friendly building supplies besides big-box retailers?
- Local hardware store vs big box retailer: which is better for home improvement supplies?
- What are the best places to buy hardware supplies for weekend DIY projects?
- Do small hardware stores offer better value for household supplies than large chains?
- Best online stores for building materials delivery in the US?
- What are some alternatives to traditional hardware stores for buying home improvement products online?
- Best place to buy bulk hardware supplies for a contractor working on multiple properties?
- Where should I get supplies for a full kitchen renovation as a DIY homeowner?
- What is the average price difference between specialty hardware stores and chain retailers for common building materials?
- How do I know if I am purchasing the right grade of lumber for an outdoor deck?
- Alternatives to in-store shopping for home hardware and project materials?
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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