- Visibility15
- Citations1
- Sentiment50
- Site quality87
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name Simon Property Group in 5% of answers, which is a little less often than the typical company in its sector at 6.7%. It has an overall score of 33 out of 100 and ranks 1,000th of 2,047 companies. The company’s website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Simon Property Group. 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, Simon Property Group ranks 339 of 640 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.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“Where can I find outlet centers with a wide selection of designer brands nearby?”
If you want outlet centers with a wide selection of designer brands nearby, the strongest options in the results are Desert Hills Premium Outlets in Cabazon, CA, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Central Valley, NY, and Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont, IL, all of which are described as major designer-heavy outlet destinations.
A few especially strong picks by region:
Desert Hills Premium Outlets — more than 180 stores, with luxury names like Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Prada, Versace, Coach, Tom Ford, and Valentino. …
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 2: Bot-aware. Explicit AI bot rules and declared Content Signals.
- Markdown negotiation
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
Not by itself. Simon Property Group 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 Shopify.
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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 rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsPassed
Content-Signal lines in robots.txt declaring search, AI input and AI training preferences.
- 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.mdCould not check
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 45 of 100 · 95% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.simon.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 22 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*blocked
- ClaudeBot*blocked
- Anthropic-AI*allowed
- Google-Extended*blocked
- Applebot-Extended*allowed
- Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
- FacebookBot*allowed
- Bytespider*blocked
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbot*blocked
- Omgilibot*blocked
- OAI-SearchBot*allowed
- Claude-SearchBot*allowed
- PerplexityBot*blocked
- Applebot*allowed
- Amazonbot*blocked
- YouBot*blocked
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- Claude-User*allowed
- Perplexity-User*blocked
- DuckAssistBot*allowed
- MistralAI-User*blocked
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.
- How can I find updated store hours or special events at major shopping centers?
- Outlet center vs traditional shopping mall—what's the difference?
- Lifestyle center or indoor mall: which offers better dining options?
- Best places for a weekend shopping and dining experience with friends
- Is an outlet center a better choice for fashion deals than a regular mall?
- Good shopping destinations for families with entertainment for kids
- Where can I find outlet centers with a wide selection of designer brands nearby?
- Most popular malls with both shopping and family-friendly activities
- What should I do if I lose something at a mall or outlet center?
- Typical price range for designer brands at outlet centers
- Is shopping in malls or outlets cheaper for brand-name clothing and accessories?
- Best shopping destinations for fashion, dining, and entertainment in the US
- Alternatives to visiting physical malls for shopping and entertainment
- Are there extra discounts during holiday sales at malls and outlets?
- Are premium outlets really worth visiting for luxury shopping deals?
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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