- Visibility25
- Citations3
- Sentiment100
- Site quality87
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Simon Premium Outlets in 20% of answers, which is more frequent than the typical company in the retail sector at 6.7%. Its overall score is 46 out of 100, ranking 86th of 2,047 companies and 18th in its sector. The website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Simon Premium Outlets. AI assistants named it in 12 of 60 answers (20.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Simon Premium Outlets ranks 144 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
“Outlet mall vs traditional department store for discounted designer brands”
When looking for discounted designer brands, both outlet malls and traditional department stores can be good options, but they offer different experiences and types of merchandise.
Outlet Malls
Pros:
Significant Discounts: Outlet malls are known for offering substantial savings, often 25-65% off, and sometimes even up to 90% off retail prices on designer brands.
Variety of Brands: Many outlet malls feature a large collection of designer and name-brand stores. For example, Jersey Shore Premium Outlets has 120 stores, Fashion Outlets of Chicago has over 130, …
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
Not by itself. Simon Premium Outlets 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
- MPPCould not check
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%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.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsPassed
Content-Signal lines in robots.txt declaring search, AI input and AI training preferences.
- 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.mdCould not check
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 36 of 100 · 95% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.premiumoutlets.com · 2,047 companies scanned
5 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%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown 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%
- 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%
This website sets rules for 22 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*blocked
- ClaudeBot*blocked
- Anthropic-AI*allowed
- Google-Extended*blocked
- Applebot-Extended*allowed
- Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
- FacebookBot*allowed
- Bytespider*blocked
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbot*blocked
- Omgilibot*blocked
- OAI-SearchBot*allowed
- Claude-SearchBot*allowed
- PerplexityBot*blocked
- Applebot*allowed
- Amazonbot*blocked
- YouBot*blocked
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- Claude-User*allowed
- Perplexity-User*blocked
- DuckAssistBot*allowed
- MistralAI-User*blocked
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.
- How much can I expect to save on average at a fashion outlet mall?
- Outlet mall vs traditional department store for discounted designer brands
- Top-rated luxury outlet shopping centers for value-conscious shoppers
- Are luxury brand outlets better for savings than off-price retailers?
- Is shopping at an outlet mall worth it for high-end fashion deals?
- Best ways to find designer fashion deals at outlet malls in the US
- Can discounted items at outlet malls be returned or exchanged easily?
- Alternatives to outlet mall shopping for discounted designer fashion
- Are prices at outlet malls negotiable or always fixed?
- Tips for maximizing savings on luxury goods at outlet shopping centers
- Which outlet malls have the biggest selection of high-end brands in the US?
- Do outlet centers really offer authentic designer products at lower prices?
- Where else can I find deals like those at luxury outlet centers?
- Best times of year to shop outlet malls for extra discounts
- What should I do if a purchased item at an outlet has a defect?
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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