- Visibility13
- Citations0
- Sentiment63
- Site quality53
- AI readiness29
AI assistants name Royal Gold in 6.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in the Energy sector at 3.3%. Its overall score is 28 out of 100, ranking 1,398th of 2,047. The website passes 2 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the energy market: none named Royal Gold. AI assistants named it in 4 of 60 answers (6.7%). The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Royal Gold ranks 36 of 109 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.
109 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Precious metals ETFs vs. royalty and streaming agreements — which is better for long-term investors?”
Short answer
If your objective is a pure, low-cost hedge on the metal price (gold, silver, platinum, palladium) with maximum liquidity and minimal company/operational risk, precious‑metal ETFs are generally better.
If you want leveraged long‑term exposure to the precious‑metals sector plus potential income, capital growth and lower direct exposure to mine operating risk, royalty & streaming companies are often a better choice.
Which is “better” depends on your goals, risk tolerance, tax situation and time horizon. Below I summarize the tradeoffs and give practical guidance for long‑term i …
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
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
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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 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%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 16 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · royalgold.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.
- GPTBotallowed
- ClaudeBotallowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extendedallowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Claude-Userallowed
- Perplexity-Userallowed
- DuckAssistBotallowed
- MistralAI-Userallowed
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-listed.
- What risks should I watch for when investing through a precious metals platform instead of traditional mining stocks?
- Precious metals ETFs vs. royalty and streaming agreements — which is better for long-term investors?
- How can institutional investors diversify their portfolios using precious metals investment platforms?
- Do royalty and streaming deals typically offer better pricing stability than buying bullion directly?
- How do royalty and streaming investments compare to direct mining equity for precious metals exposure?
- Are precious metals royalty and streaming investments a good choice for beginners?
- Is it worth adding a precious metals investment platform to my retirement portfolio?
- What role do streaming agreements play in ESG-focused investment strategies for precious metals?
- How can investors use precious metals royalties to hedge against inflation?
- What investment vehicles allow access to precious metals markets with less operational risk?
- What are the best ways for individual investors to gain exposure to precious metals without owning physical bullion?
- Are there low-cost options for gaining exposure to gold and silver outside of traditional mining companies?
- Why might my returns from precious metals streaming investments be lower than expected?
- How are fees and costs structured when investing via a precious metals investment platform?
- What are some alternatives to royalty and streaming investments in the precious metals sector?
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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