- Visibility25
- Citations1
- Sentiment50
- Site quality80
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group in 20% of answers, which is slightly less often than the typical company in its sector at 21.7%. Its overall score is 34 out of 100, ranking 885th of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the travel market: none named Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group. AI assistants named it in 12 of 60 answers (20.0%). The typical travel company is named in 21.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group ranks 40 of 75 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.
75 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are good options for military personnel needing rental cars for official travel?”
For military personnel needing rental cars for official travel, several excellent options provide discounted rates and benefits through the U.S. Government Rental Car Program and direct military discounts.
Key Options & Benefits:
U.S. Government Rental Car Program: This program offers reduced rates and special benefits for federal government employees and service members on official business. It's administered through the U.S. Government Rental Car Agreement #5. To ensure you receive program benefits, book through the Defense Travel System (DTS), ETS2, ConcurGov, or your Travel M …
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
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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 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 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 manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 36 of 100 · 68% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.dollar.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%
- 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%
- Not metExplicit 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 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.
- What should I do if my rental car isn’t ready at pickup time?
- Best ways to save money if you need transportation but car rental prices are high
- What are good options for military personnel needing rental cars for official travel?
- Affordable car rental options for students under 25 in the US
- How to resolve billing issues with low-cost car rental services
- How do discount car rental rates compare during peak travel seasons?
- What are the best ways to find cheap car rentals for family vacations in the US?
- Are there extra fees to watch out for with affordable car rental agencies?
- Best car rental type for group travel on a budget in the US
- Alternatives to renting a car for budget travel in US cities
- Best car rental options for business travelers on a tight budget
- Economy vs. compact car rentals: which is more cost-effective for road trips?
- Is renting a car from a discount provider worth it for a weeklong trip?
- Do affordable car rental services offer reliable options for cross-country travel?
- Are off-airport car rental locations cheaper than renting at the airport?
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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