Empire State Realty Trust
empirestaterealtytrust.com · Finance · ESRT
Ranked 294 of 2,047 companies in the study
- Visibility29
- Citations0
- Sentiment82
- Site quality80
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name Empire State Realty Trust in 30% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 294th of 2,047 companies in the study. The website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the finance market: none named Empire State Realty Trust. AI assistants named it in 18 of 60 answers (30.0%). The typical finance company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Empire State Realty Trust ranks 18 of 205 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.
205 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are alternatives to investing in publicly traded commercial REITs for exposure to Manhattan real estate?”
Yes—if you want Manhattan real estate exposure without buying publicly traded commercial REITs, the main alternatives are direct ownership, private real estate vehicles, and fund structures that hold private Manhattan assets. Public REITs are only one channel; private-market options include property syndications, private REITs, fund limited partnerships, joint ventures, and direct ownership.
The most relevant alternatives are:
Direct ownership of Manhattan property: This is the most straightforward way to get pure exposure, but it requires substantial capital, ac …
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.txtNot met
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.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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.esrtreit.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%
- PassedHTTP 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.
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- Google-Extendedpartly
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- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
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- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- Claude-Userpartly
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- 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.
- What are alternatives to investing in publicly traded commercial REITs for exposure to Manhattan real estate?
- How do office-focused REITs compare to mixed-use real estate trusts in terms of returns?
- Can businesses seeking flexible lease terms find options through Manhattan office REITs?
- How do I find top-rated REITs with modernized retail properties in Manhattan?
- How do management fees and tenant costs compare in major commercial real estate investment trusts?
- What are common issues tenants face in large commercial real estate investment trust buildings?
- Downtown versus Midtown Manhattan office REITs—what are the main differences?
- Is investing in a New York City office REIT worthwhile for long-term growth?
- What should I do if my leased office space in a commercial REIT property needs urgent repairs?
- Are there non-listed or private REIT options for businesses looking for office space in New York City?
- How do REITs with retail portfolios in the New York metro area support small business tenants?
- Are REITs specializing in sustainable commercial properties a good choice for institutional investors?
- Which REITs prioritize environmental sustainability in their New York commercial property portfolios?
- What are the best commercial real estate investment trusts focused on office space in New York City?
- What is the usual price range per square foot for office space from REITs in Midtown Manhattan?
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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