- Visibility2
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality73
- AI readiness64
AI assistants rarely name Petsense, mentioning it in 1 of 60 answers to market questions. Other companies named in the same answer include PetSmart, Petco, and Chewy. Petsense has an overall score of 29 out of 100, ranking 1,349th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 9 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Petsense. AI assistants named it in 1 of 60 answers (1.7%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Petsense ranks 431 of 640 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named
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
“Best way to shop for small animal and reptile supplies in one place?”
For the best way to shop for small animal and reptile supplies in one place, you have several excellent options, both in physical stores and online. Many major pet supply retailers aim to be a one-stop-shop for various pets.
Here are some of the best ways to find small animal and reptile supplies together:
1. Large Pet Store Chains:
Pet Supplies Plus is a neighborhood pet store that carries a wide variety of supplies for many pets, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, small animals, and reptiles.
Pet Supermarket offers food, supplies, and products for birds, reptiles, fish, …
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
Yes. Petsense publishes a UCP profile, a file that tells an AI agent how to buy, and it includes checkout.
- UCPPublished
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
The shop runs on Shopify.
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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.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- 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 discoveryPassed
OpenID Connect or OAuth metadata agents can use to sign in.
- 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 49 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.petsense.com · 2,047 companies scanned
9 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%
- Passedllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- PassedExplicit 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 rules for 9 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBot*partly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-User*partly
- Perplexity-User*partly
- 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 retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- Where can I find a wide selection of dog toys and cat treats with fast shipping?
- How do pet supply stores compare to online-only retailers for selection and convenience?
- How to find same-day pickup for dog and cat food orders nearby?
- Are in-store grooming services usually safer for young puppies?
- What are some alternatives to shopping at big chain pet stores for supplies?
- Best options for eco-friendly and natural pet products besides large retailers?
- Is it worth paying extra for premium pet food at specialty retailers?
- How can I tell if my pet is reacting poorly to a new brand of food?
- How do grooming service prices compare at brick-and-mortar pet stores?
- Where can I find the lowest prices on bulk pet food and cat litter in the US?
- Where else can I take my dog for a professional wash if pet supply stores are fully booked?
- What should I do if my online pet supply order arrives with damaged items?
- What are the best places to buy affordable pet food online in the US?
- Best way to shop for small animal and reptile supplies in one place?
- In-store pet grooming vs mobile grooming: Which is better for anxious 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.