- Visibility11
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality67
- AI readiness43
AI assistants rarely name T206 Cards, mentioning it in 2 out of 60 answers. Its overall score is 29 out of 100, ranking 1,329th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 6 out of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named T206 Cards. AI assistants named it in 2 of 60 answers (3.3%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, T206 Cards ranks 392 of 640 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.
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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
“What are the best places to buy vintage sports trading cards in the US?”
For collectors in the U.S. looking to buy vintage sports trading cards, there are numerous reputable online marketplaces and brick-and-mortar stores. These outlets offer a wide selection, catering to both novice collectors and serious enthusiasts.
Online Marketplaces:
eBay remains a dominant force in the online vintage sports card market, offering a vast and diverse inventory from numerous sellers. Its auction format can lead to great deals, and its extensive network ensures a wide range of options for every budget.
Beckett Marketplace is a well-known resource, particularl …
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 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
Yes. T206 Cards publishes a UCP profile, a file that tells an AI agent how to buy, and it includes checkout.
- UCPPublished
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
The shop runs on BigCommerce.
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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 negotiationPassed
Requests sent with Accept: text/markdown receive a markdown version of the page.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPassed
Explicit robots.txt rules for AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot.
- 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%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 43 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · t206cards.com · 2,047 companies scanned
6 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%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.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 17 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AI*partly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extended*partly
- Meta-ExternalAgent*partly
- FacebookBot*partly
- Bytespider*partly
- CCBot*partly
- Diffbot*partly
- Omgilibot*partly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbot*partly
- YouBot*partly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- 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.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US retailers: listed as a retailer in Wikidata, a public database, and among the websites Cloudflare Radar ranks as visited.
- How do vintage sports card shops compare to modern trading card retailers for selection and pricing?
- What are the best places to buy vintage sports trading cards in the US?
- How do collectors handle damaged or misgraded trading cards after purchase?
- Typical price ranges for graded vintage trading cards from the early 1900s?
- Where can fans find affordable art prints inspired by iconic trading cards?
- How can trading card enthusiasts get started with sealed wax box breaks?
- Differences between online trading card marketplaces and local card shops for collectors?
- What should I do if I suspect my purchased sports card is not authentic?
- What are some options besides sports trading cards for collectible investments?
- How much do authenticated modern sports rookie cards usually cost in the US market?
- Is it worth investing in professionally authenticated rookie cards?
- Alternatives to collecting graded cards for sports enthusiasts on a budget?
- Best way to display and protect vintage baseball cards at home?
- Are set breaks a good way for collectors to build vintage trading card collections?
- Where can collectors find rare and authenticated baseball cards online?
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.