- Visibility34
- Citations2
- Sentiment94
- Site quality67
- AI readiness0
AI assistants name Gates in 26.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the automotive sector at 5%. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 378th of 2,047. The website passes 0 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the automotive market: none named Gates. AI assistants named it in 16 of 60 answers (26.7%). The typical automotive company is named in 5.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Gates ranks 3 of 49 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.
49 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What kind of belt should I use for performance upgrades in my car?”
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1. Serpentine Belts (Accessory Belts)
Serpentine belts are long, flexible belts that power multiple engine components like the alternator, power steering pump, and air conditioning compressor.
Materials for Performance:
EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer) rubber: This is the standard material for mo …
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 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%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 24 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · www.gates.com · 2,047 companies scanned
0 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%
- Not metToken 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 Consumer brands.
- Why is my serpentine belt squealing after replacement?
- What are some alternatives to standard automotive rubber hoses?
- What kind of belt should I use for performance upgrades in my car?
- How much should I expect to pay for a full set of replacement car belts and hoses?
- Options for eco-friendly automotive belt materials?
- Serpentine belt vs V-belt: Which is more durable for modern cars?
- What are the best brands for automotive belts and hoses in the United States?
- Do premium radiator hoses offer better longevity than standard options?
- Rubber hoses vs silicone hoses in engine cooling systems—what’s the difference?
- Is it worth paying extra for OEM replacement belts for my vehicle?
- Most reliable timing belts for high-mileage vehicles?
- Common causes of premature wear in automotive timing belts?
- Price differences between aftermarket and OEM belts for American vehicles?
- Where can I find reputable suppliers for replacement automotive belts and hoses in the US?
- Best types of hoses for high-temperature engine applications?
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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