- Visibility22
- Citations5
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name Idexx Laboratories in 15% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector. Its overall score is 32 out of 100, ranking 1,034th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 3 out of 14 technical checks, reflecting its current readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named Idexx Laboratories. AI assistants named it in 9 of 60 answers (15.0%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Idexx Laboratories ranks 12 of 105 in its sector.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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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.
105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the best diagnostic solutions for comprehensive veterinary care?”
The best diagnostic solutions for comprehensive veterinary care are typically a combined approach: in-house laboratory testing, point-of-care rapid tests, diagnostic imaging, and integrated software/workflow tools. Major veterinary diagnostics providers emphasize this kind of end-to-end coverage, with offerings that span chemistry, hematology, immunoassay, blood gas/electrolyte testing, imaging, pathology, and connected practice-management workflows.
In-house laboratory analyzers are the backbone of comprehensive care because they provide fast chemistry, hema …
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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Show every check, for your technical teamHide the checks
- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it 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 16 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.idexx.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 are the best diagnostic solutions for comprehensive veterinary care?
- Point-of-care veterinary diagnostics versus traditional lab testing: what's the difference?
- Best options for mobile veterinary diagnostics outside of traditional clinic settings
- How do reference laboratory services compare to in-clinic analyzers for animal health diagnostics?
- What are some alternative approaches for managing veterinary patient records?
- Common issues when running digital cytology tests in veterinary practices and how to fix them?
- Benefits of integrating water testing solutions in livestock health management
- Typical cost range for cloud-based veterinary practice management solutions in the US
- Are practice management software platforms a good investment for new veterinary clinics?
- How are veterinary diagnostic service fees structured for multi-pet households?
- What should veterinary professionals look for in practice management platforms?
- Alternatives to in-house lab analyzers for veterinary practices
- What should I do if veterinary patient results from a diagnostic analyzer seem inconsistent?
- Is investing in advanced diagnostic tools for a small animal practice worth the cost?
- How do diagnostic tools support early disease detection in pets?
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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