- Visibility15
- Citations7
- Sentiment67
- Site quality87
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name F5 in 11.7% of answers, which is slightly more often than the typical company in the technology sector. F5 has an overall score of 36 out of 100, ranking 742nd of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named F5. AI assistants named it in 7 of 60 answers (11.7%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, F5 ranks 121 of 273 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.
273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“How are application security and delivery solutions for hybrid multicloud environments typically priced in the U.S.?”
I'll search for information about how application security and delivery solutions are priced for hybrid multicloud environments in the U.S.Let me search for more specific pricing information about these solutions.Based on my research, application security and delivery solutions for hybrid multicloud environments in the U.S. typically use multiple pricing approaches:
Hardware and Software Pricing
For on-premises and virtual deployments, hardware solutions involve upfront capital expenditure for physical devices, plus annual maintenance and support (typically 17–22% of hardware list price), …
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.f5.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.
- GPTBotallowed
- ClaudeBotallowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extendedallowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Claude-Userallowed
- Perplexity-Userallowed
- DuckAssistBotallowed
- MistralAI-Userallowed
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 S&P 500.
- What options are available for supplementing native cloud provider security with third-party delivery solutions?
- Hybrid multicloud application security vs traditional on-premise security solutions—what are the pros and cons?
- How do enterprises typically manage virtual patching for apps spread across different cloud infrastructures?
- What are the most common use-cases for unified security and delivery platforms in digital transformation projects?
- How are application security and delivery solutions for hybrid multicloud environments typically priced in the U.S.?
- What steps should I take if my app delivery platform struggles with high-traffic spikes in a hybrid environment?
- Which platforms are recognized for comprehensive security of sensitive data, applications, and APIs using advanced technologies like AI and ML?
- What are the best platforms for unified application security across hybrid and multicloud environments?
- What alternatives exist for organizations seeking to secure APIs and apps without a full unified platform?
- What should IT leaders look for when choosing an application security platform for hybrid cloud setups?
- Comprehensive API protection vs point security tools in multicloud environments—how do they differ?
- How can I identify gaps in AI application security across multiple cloud providers?
- Are there cost-effective options for small to mid-size enterprises needing robust app security across clouds?
- Is investing in a unified platform for app security and delivery worth it for large enterprises?
- How can enterprises deliver and secure AI workloads in complex cloud infrastructures?
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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