- Visibility11
- Citations0
- Sentiment70
- Site quality73
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Finish Line in 8.3% of answers, which is slightly more often than the typical company in the retail sector. Its overall score is 33 out of 100, ranking 979th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Finish Line. AI assistants named it in 5 of 60 answers (8.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Finish Line ranks 279 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 men's basketball shoes in the United States?”
I can provide you with some general guidance based on common knowledge about where men's basketball shoes are typically sold in the US:
Major Retail Chains:
Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour stores - These official brand stores carry their full lines of basketball shoes
Foot Locker - A specialty athletic shoe retailer with stores nationwide
Finish Line - Another dedicated athletic footwear retailer
Dick's Sporting Goods - Carries multiple brands in a sports retail environment
Academy Sports + Outdoors - Regional chain with athletic footwear sections
Departmen …
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.
Not by itself. Finish Line publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.
- UCPNot present
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
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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 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 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 32 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.finishline.com · 2,047 companies scanned
5 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%
- 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 18 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AI*partly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extended*partly
- Meta-ExternalAgent*partly
- FacebookBot*partly
- Bytespider*partly
- CCBot*partly
- Diffbot*partly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBot*partly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBot*partly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-User*partly
- Perplexity-User*partly
- 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 are the best places to buy men's basketball shoes in the United States?
- Is it worth paying extra for sportswear from premium athletic brands?
- How do athletic footwear retailers compare to department stores when it comes to sneaker selection?
- Where can I find top-rated running sneakers for women?
- Should I buy kids' athletic shoes online or in-store for the best selection and fit?
- What are some alternatives to athletic footwear retailers if I'm looking for affordable sneakers?
- What is the average price range for men's and women's running shoes in the US?
- What can I do if my new sneakers don't fit comfortably after a few wears?
- What are other options for buying NFL gear without going to a sports retailer?
- Performance running shoes vs. fashion sneakers: what's the difference?
- Where else can I shop for children's sportswear besides specialty sneaker stores?
- What features should I look for in shoes for high school basketball tryouts?
- Are end-of-season sales a good time to buy discounted athletic apparel?
- Which type of sportswear is best for outdoor fall workouts?
- How should I care for athletic apparel to help it last longer?
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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