- Visibility16
- Citations5
- Sentiment69
- Site quality80
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Public Storage in 13.3% of their answers, slightly more often than the typical company in the real estate sector. It has an overall score of 37 out of 100, ranking 646th of 2,047 companies in the study. Its website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks measuring readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the real estate market: none named Public Storage. AI assistants named it in 8 of 60 answers (13.3%). The typical real estate company is named in 11.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Public Storage ranks 11 of 26 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.
26 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Where can I find secure vehicle storage facilities near me?”
To find secure vehicle storage facilities near you, consider these options:
1. Major Storage Companies:
Extra Space Storage: Offers various vehicle storage options including indoor, climate-controlled, covered, and outdoor spaces. They have high-quality security features like electronic gate access and video surveillance. They also have over 4,300 facilities nationwide.
U-Haul Self-Storage: Provides vehicle storage spaces up to 45 feet in length, including enclosed, covered, and uncovered options for RVs, boats, and cars. Their facilities are conveniently located and secu …
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
Not by itself. Public Storage 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
The shop runs on Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
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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 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 43 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.publicstorage.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 6 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AI*partly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- 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 S&P 500.
- Where can I find secure vehicle storage facilities near me?
- Are premium self-storage units really safer than basic options?
- What should I do if I lose the keys to my storage unit?
- Can you use a self-storage locker for seasonal sports equipment?
- What’s the difference between indoor and drive-up self-storage units?
- How do garage rentals compare with self-storage units for long-term vehicle storage?
- How can I prevent moisture damage while storing items long-term?
- How does climate-controlled storage differ from standard storage units?
- What factors influence the price of self-storage units in the US?
- What are the best self-storage options for small apartments in the United States?
- Are there extra fees when reserving a climate-controlled storage space?
- Are portable storage containers a good substitute for traditional storage units?
- What alternatives exist to using a self-storage facility during a home renovation?
- What size storage unit do I need for a one-bedroom apartment?
- Is renting a storage unit for business inventory worth the monthly cost?
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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