- Visibility30
- Citations0
- Sentiment71
- Site quality73
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name Fandom in 18.3% of answers, more often than the typical company in Media. Its overall score is 36 out of 100, ranking 720th of 2,047 overall and 46th of 99 in its sector. The website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the media market: none named Fandom. AI assistants named it in 11 of 60 answers (18.3%). The typical media company is named in 15.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Fandom ranks 44 of 99 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.
99 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
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Dedicated Gaming Communities & Forums These platforms are built specifically for gamers to discuss, share tips, and find teammates.
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IGN Boards This forum covers a wide range of video game topics, as well as related interests like sports and hardware. …
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
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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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 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 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%WebMCPNot met
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 27 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.fandom.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 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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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML 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%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as Large private companies. One of the most visited websites in the United States (Similarweb, August 2026).
- How do entertainment community platforms differ from general news websites?
- What are the best sites for connecting with other fans of TV shows and video games?
- Which platforms offer the best coverage of both TV and movies for US fans?
- Why am I having trouble updating my profile on an entertainment fan platform?
- Is it worth signing up for an entertainment media platform to access exclusive fan content?
- What is the typical cost for premium access to fan community platforms for movies and games?
- What are effective ways to use entertainment media communities for TV show recommendations?
- Do paid memberships on TV and gaming fan sites offer better features than free accounts?
- Where can I find in-depth guides and discussions about upcoming movie releases?
- Are there free alternatives to paid entertainment guide memberships in the US?
- How can I access progress tracking features on a pop culture news and guide website?
- Where else can I find profile-based entertainment communities for fans?
- Fan-based forums vs curated entertainment media sites: which is better for staying updated on games?
- How can interactive maps help gamers on entertainment guide sites?
- What are some alternatives to news and guide websites for video game communities?
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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