- Visibility40
- Citations3
- Sentiment67
- Site quality80
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name Reddit in 45% of answers, more often than the typical company in the media sector, which is named in 15%. Its overall score is 41 out of 100, ranking 280th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 2 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the media market: none named Reddit. AI assistants named it in 27 of 60 answers (45.0%). The typical media company is named in 15.0% of answers. By how often it is named, Reddit ranks 21 of 99 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.
99 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
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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
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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.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 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%WebMCPNot met
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 18 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · www.reddit.com · 2,047 companies scanned
2 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%
- 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%
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.
- GPTBotblocked
- ClaudeBotblocked
- Anthropic-AIblocked
- Google-Extendedblocked
- Applebot-Extendedblocked
- Meta-ExternalAgentblocked
- FacebookBotblocked
- Bytespiderblocked
- CCBotblocked
- Diffbotblocked
- Omgilibotblocked
- OAI-SearchBotblocked
- Claude-SearchBotblocked
- PerplexityBotblocked
- Applebotblocked
- Amazonbotblocked
- YouBotblocked
- ChatGPT-Userblocked
- Claude-Userblocked
- Perplexity-Userblocked
- DuckAssistBotblocked
- MistralAI-Userblocked
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.
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- Are there free online discussion platforms that offer robust moderation tools?
- What are some creative ways to use community-driven platforms for learning new skills?
- How can I join digital forums to talk about my favorite TV shows with others?
- Text-based discussion platforms vs video-based communities—what are the pros and cons?
- What is the average cost for premium features on social discussion websites?
- Are membership-based online community platforms worth the subscription cost for active participation?
- Where else can I find community-driven content sharing platforms besides mainstream forums?
- What are the most active US-based forums for casual conversations on trending news?
- How do online community forums compare to chat-based groups for in-depth discussions?
- Why can't I post images in some online community forums?
- What are alternatives to traditional online message boards for crowd-sourced Q&A?
- What are the best online discussion platforms for finding niche communities in the US?
- Is joining a large-scale online forum worth it for finding advice on hobbies?
- How can online discussion forums help me get travel recommendations from locals?
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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