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Rouses

rouses.com · Retail

Ranked 593 of 2,047 companies in the study

38Overall score
  • Visibility12
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness29
What this means for Rouses

AI assistants name Rouses in 5% of answers, a little less often than the typical company in the retail sector. Its overall score is 38 out of 100, ranking 593rd of 2,047 companies. Rouses' website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Rouses. AI assistants named it in 3 of 60 answers (5.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Rouses ranks 339 of 640 in its sector.

Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
23.1%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
184 of 640
by overall score, where the typical retail company scores 34
How Rouses compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
12

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
73

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
29

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with retail

640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score38
Ranks 184 of 640. Typical company: 34
Named in answers5%
Ranks 339 of 640. Typical company: 7%
AI readiness29
Ranks 222 of 640. Typical company: 29
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Best Gulf Coast supermarkets for fresh seafood and produce”

For those seeking the best in fresh seafood and produce along the Gulf Coast, a variety of supermarkets and dedicated seafood markets offer high-quality options. Many prioritize locally sourced products, ensuring freshness and supporting regional industries.

Top Contenders for Fresh Seafood:

Several markets along the Gulf Coast are consistently praised for their fresh, often locally sourced, seafood:

Blalock's Seafood & Specialty Market (Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, AL): This market is a premier source for fresh seafood on the Alabama Gulf Coast, offering a wide selection inclu …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Albertsons (Louisiana & Mississippi locations)
50.0%
Rouses
37.5%
Winn-Dixie
12.5%
Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co.
0.0%
Brookshire Brothers
0.0%
Super 1 Foods
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
1/15
OpenAI
1/15
Perplexity
1/15
Claude
0/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Can an AI agent buy here?

Not by itself. Rouses 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 WooCommerce.

Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · rouses.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

4 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.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • 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%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

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.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • 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.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

tastingtable.com
15
supermarketnews.com
12
justdial.com
12
inkl.com
10
reddit.com
9
aarp.org
9
consumerreports.org
7
checkbook.org
6
walmart.com
6
alibaba.com
6

In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.

Every question, and where the company came up (1 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • Best options if you want curbside pickup but your supermarket doesn't offer it
  • Is it worth joining supermarket digital savings programs
  • How to organize a party using carryout catering from a regional grocery store
  • Where else can I get digital coupons besides grocery stores
  • Where to find family-owned grocery stores with hot food bars in the South
  • Typical price range for fresh produce at Gulf Coast supermarkets
  • How to access digital coupons at local supermarkets
  • Should I buy ready-made meals or shop for fresh ingredients at neighborhood grocery stores
  • Best Gulf Coast supermarkets for fresh seafood and produce
  • Are local grocery stores better for fresh bakery items than big box retailers
  • How do grocery delivery fees compare to in-store shopping in the South
  • What to do if pickup or delivery slots are unavailable at your grocery store
  • Easy ways to plan meals using weekly supermarket circulars
  • Alternatives to supermarkets for buying local meat and seafood
  • Regional supermarkets vs national grocery chains for weekly deals
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

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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