- Visibility36
- Citations4
- Sentiment88
- Site quality67
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name Micro Center in 41.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the retail sector. Its overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 283rd of 2,047 companies. The Micro Center website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Micro Center. AI assistants named it in 25 of 60 answers (41.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Micro Center ranks 45 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
“Where else can tech enthusiasts purchase high-end graphics cards besides large electronics shops?”
Beyond major electronics retailers, tech enthusiasts have several excellent options for purchasing high-end graphics cards:
1. Specialty Online Retailers:
Newegg: This is a very popular choice for PC hardware, offering a wide selection of GPUs from various brands. They are known for their comprehensive selection and often have deals and bundles.
Amazon: While a large marketplace, Amazon also acts as a direct seller for many brands and offers a vast selection of NVIDIA and AMD GPUs with quick shipping options and customer reviews.
Orange Hardwares: This retailer …
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. Micro Center 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 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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.microcenter.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 US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- Where else can tech enthusiasts purchase high-end graphics cards besides large electronics shops?
- Best computer retailers for small businesses that need bulk hardware and support services
- How do in-store-only deals for computers and electronics compare to online pricing in the US?
- Are member-exclusive pricing programs for computer hardware worth joining?
- Best electronics stores for tech enthusiasts looking for in-store pickup options
- Where can consumers get same-day tech support for electronics and PC hardware?
- What should I do if I have issues with a laptop purchased from a local electronics store?
- How do I handle warranty or tech support for electronics bought in-store vs online?
- What are some alternatives to traditional electronics superstores for buying computer parts?
- Where can I find the best deals on laptops and computer hardware in the US?
- Do electronics retailers in the US offer significant savings with membership programs?
- Brick-and-mortar electronics retailers vs online-only stores for computer components
- How do physical electronics stores compare to online retailers for returns and tech support?
- Best options for finding discounted electronics and PC hardware outside of major retail chains
- Is it better value to build a custom PC from local electronics stores or to buy a prebuilt system?
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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