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SanDisk

sandisk.com · Technology · SNDK

Ranked 233 of 2,047 companies in the study

42Overall score
  • Visibility26
  • Citations2
  • Sentiment95
  • Site quality73
  • AI readiness29
What this means for SanDisk

AI assistants name SanDisk in 26.7% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector at 10%. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 233rd of 2,047 companies. The website passes 4 out of 14 technical checks, showing some readiness for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named SanDisk. AI assistants named it in 16 of 60 answers (26.7%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, SanDisk ranks 55 of 273 in its sector.

Named by AI in
26.7%
16 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
23.9%
compared with 5 rivals
AI readiness
4/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
44 of 273
by overall score, where the typical technology company scores 36
How SanDisk 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
26

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
2

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

Sentiment
95

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 technology

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

Overall score42
Ranks 44 of 273. Typical company: 36
Named in answers27%
Ranks 55 of 273. Typical company: 10%
AI readiness29
Ranks 82 of 273. Typical company: 29
What Gemini actually said

An answer that names the company

“Best storage devices for backing up 4K videos and large photo libraries”

Backing up 4K videos and large photo libraries requires significant storage, speed, and reliability. Here's a breakdown of the best storage devices and strategies to consider:

1. External Solid State Drives (SSDs)

Pros:

Speed: SSDs are significantly faster than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), offering rapid read and write speeds crucial for editing and transferring large 4K video files and high-resolution photos.

Durability & Portability: They are more robust due to the lack of moving parts, making them ideal for photographers and videographers on the go. …

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

Also named
Lexar14
Share of mentions

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

SanDisk
25.8%
Samsung Memory & Storage
25.8%
Lexar
16.1%
Kingston Technology
12.9%
Crucial (by Micron)
11.3%
PNY Technologies
8.1%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
6/15
OpenAI
4/15
Perplexity
3/15
Claude
3/15
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. SanDisk 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 Magento.

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
50 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

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

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtPassed

    An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.

    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 36 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.sandisk.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%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Passedllms.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

tomshardware.com
15
reddit.com
14
kingston.com
13
pcworld.com
13
bestbuy.com
11
youtube.com
10
bgr.com
10
sandisk.com (its own website)
10
pcgamer.com
10
westerndigital.com
9

In the study as S&P 500.

Every question, and where the company came up (7 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • What are some options besides USB flash drives for portable file transfers?
  • Which type of flash drive is most secure for transferring sensitive files?
  • Best storage devices for backing up 4K videos and large photo libraries
  • Differences between UHS-I and UHS-II SD cards for high-speed photography
  • Other types of digital storage devices suitable for professional photographers
  • Is it worth investing in an NVMe SSD for gaming?
  • Are there affordable options for high-speed microSD cards for action cameras?
  • How do I fix a corrupted memory card that’s not recognized by my camera?
  • SSD vs HDD: Which is better for everyday computer use?
  • What is the average price range for 1TB SSDs in the US?
  • Are high-capacity USB flash drives reliable for long-term storage?
  • Alternatives to traditional SATA SSDs for maximizing laptop performance
  • What are the best SSDs for upgrading a gaming PC?
  • Top-rated memory cards for professional digital photographers
  • What should I do if my SSD isn’t detected by my computer?
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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