National Fuel Gas
nationalfuelgas.com · Unclassified · NFG
Ranked 1,118 of 2,047 companies in the study
- Visibility16
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality67
- AI readiness50
AI assistants name National Fuel Gas in 10% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its group at 3.3%. Its overall score is 31 out of 100, ranking 1,118th of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 7 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market: none named National Fuel Gas. AI assistants named it in 6 of 60 answers (10.0%). The typical company in its group is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, National Fuel Gas ranks 19 of 61 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.
61 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Which natural gas distributors offer reliable service for industrial clients in Pennsylvania?”
I'll search for information about natural gas distributors serving industrial clients in Pennsylvania.Based on my search results, here are the main natural gas distributors serving industrial clients in Pennsylvania:
Major Distribution Companies
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania serves 445,000 customers across Pennsylvania, providing natural gas service to residential, commercial and industrial customers in 450 communities in 26 counties.
National Fuel Gas is another major distributor serving the state. National Fuel's Energy Marketing segment markets natural gas to industrial, commer …
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
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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 discoveryPartly met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourcePassed
Metadata telling agents which authorization server to use.
- 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 31 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.nationalfuel.com · 2,047 companies scanned
7 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%
- PassedMarkdown 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%
- PassedOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- PassedOAuth 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.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- 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 US-listed.
- Which natural gas distributors offer reliable service for industrial clients in Pennsylvania?
- What should I do if my natural gas bill seems unusually high this month?
- What are some alternatives to natural gas heating for properties in upstate New York?
- Which renewable energy options can replace natural gas for commercial buildings?
- What efficient home heating options exist besides connecting to a natural gas pipeline?
- How does pipeline-delivered natural gas compare to propane for home heating efficiency?
- What factors influence the cost per therm of natural gas for industrial customers in the Northeast?
- How do commercial facilities typically ensure consistent natural gas supply during peak demand periods?
- What are the best natural gas suppliers for residential customers in western New York?
- How can I identify and resolve low pressure from a residential natural gas line?
- Is switching to a different natural gas distributor worth it for small businesses?
- What is the process for connecting a new construction home to a local natural gas distribution system?
- Does converting from electric heat to natural gas save money over time?
- What are the main differences between choosing a regulated natural gas supplier and a deregulated one?
- Are there any seasonal fluctuations in natural gas prices for Pennsylvania homeowners?
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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