- Visibility17
- Citations1
- Sentiment79
- Site quality67
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name Pet Supplies Plus in 18.3% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in the retail sector at 6.7%. Its overall score is 33 out of 100, ranking 948th of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Pet Supplies Plus. AI assistants named it in 11 of 60 answers (18.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Pet Supplies Plus ranks 153 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
“What are the top-rated pet supply stores for dog owners in the US?”
I'll search for information about the top-rated pet supply stores for dog owners in the US.Based on the search results, here are some of the top-rated pet supply stores for dog owners in the US:
Major National Retailers
PetSmart is the largest U.S. based pet supply retailer, offering a full range of pet care products for dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles and small pets, with services including grooming, boarding and training.
PETCO is the second largest pet supply retailer in the U.S., with locations around the country and physical locations also offering adoptions, training and …
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. Pet Supplies Plus 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 DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- 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 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 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 34 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.petsuppliesplus.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.
- What are the top-rated pet supply stores for dog owners in the US?
- Where else can I buy bird supplies if a typical pet store doesn't have what I need?
- Should I get specialty pet food from a supermarket or a dedicated pet store?
- Is shopping at a neighborhood pet store worth it for grooming services?
- Alternatives to mainstream pet supply chains for organic pet food?
- Best stores for aquarists to buy supplies for freshwater tanks?
- Best places to buy healthy cat food and treats nearby?
- How can I make sure a new pet toy is safe for my dog or cat?
- Where can I get affordable same-day pet grooming for a large breed dog?
- Online pet supply ordering vs. in-store shopping—pros and cons?
- Best US stores for walk-in self-service dog washing stations?
- Are pet supplies usually cheaper in-store or online in the United States?
- How much does it usually cost to groom a medium-sized dog at a US pet retailer?
- Why can't I find my pet's preferred food in stock at most pet retailers?
- Big box pet supply retailer vs. local pet shop: which is better for variety?
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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