- Visibility62
- Citations12
- Sentiment62
- Site quality93
- AI readiness21
AI assistants name LinkedIn in 65% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in its sector at 10%. Its overall score is 52 out of 100, ranking 9th of 2,047 companies and 3rd of 273 in its sector. The website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named LinkedIn. AI assistants named it in 39 of 60 answers (65.0%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, LinkedIn ranks 7 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 can job seekers discover new professional opportunities online?”
Job seekers can discover new professional opportunities online through a variety of strategies, including utilizing job boards, networking, leveraging social media, and directly researching companies.
Here's a breakdown of effective methods:
1. Leverage Online Job Boards and Search Engines:
Popular Platforms: Utilize well-known job boards like LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, and Monster to search for openings across various industries.
Industry-Specific Sites: Explore specialized job boards tailored to specific fields, such as Stack Overflow for tech or Behance for design ro …
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
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- 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.linkedin.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 Consumer brands. One of the most visited websites in the United States (Similarweb, August 2026). Owned by Microsoft.
- What are the best options for finding business partners if online networking platforms aren't effective?
- How can job seekers discover new professional opportunities online?
- How can I reach more connections if my messages aren't getting responses on professional networking platforms?
- How do professional networking platforms compare to traditional job boards?
- What are the best ways to use online platforms to connect with industry experts?
- Why isn't my online professional profile getting views from recruiters?
- Do business owners get enough value from paying for advanced networking tools online?
- How can freelancers use professional networking sites to find contract work?
- Is upgrading to a premium professional networking membership worth it for job seekers?
- What are some alternatives to online professional networking platforms for career development?
- What is the difference between social networking sites and professional networking platforms for career growth?
- What are the best online platforms for building a professional network in the United States?
- Are there good offline options for expanding a professional network besides online communities?
- What is the typical cost range for premium membership on professional networking sites?
- Are there free options for building a professional community online?
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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