- Visibility57
- Citations0
- Sentiment70
- Site quality67
- AI readiness43
AI assistants name TikTok in 76.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the Media sector, which is named in 15% of answers. TikTok has an overall score of 47 out of 100, ranking 37th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 4 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the media market: none named TikTok. AI assistants named it in 46 of 60 answers (76.7%). The typical media company is named in 15.0% of answers. By how often it is named, TikTok ranks 1 of 99 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.
99 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
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Here's how you can share funny or creative moments with friends using short video apps:
1. Choose the Right App:
TikTok: Excellent for discovering new creators and trends through its algorithmic feed, and for sharing a wide variety of short, entertaining videos.
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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
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPartly 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%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 24 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.tiktok.com · 2,047 companies scanned
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.
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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%
- 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 16 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*blocked
- ClaudeBot*blocked
- Anthropic-AI*blocked
- Google-Extended*blocked
- Applebot-Extended*blocked
- Meta-ExternalAgent*blocked
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespider*blocked
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*blocked
- Claude-SearchBot*blocked
- PerplexityBot*blocked
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*blocked
- Claude-User*blocked
- Perplexity-User*blocked
- DuckAssistBot*blocked
- 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 Large private companies. One of the most visited websites in the United States (Similarweb, August 2026).
- How can I share funny or creative moments with friends using short video apps?
- What types of platforms can I use if I want to avoid short-form video social media?
- Why do some short video social apps lag while uploading or watching clips?
- Are there any free short-form video social networks for US users?
- What are some alternatives to short-form mobile video social platforms for entertainment?
- What features do paid short-form video platforms offer over free ones in the US?
- Best platforms for discovering trending short videos among teens in the United States?
- Do short-form video platforms offer enough unique content to justify spending time on them?
- What are the best short-form video apps for entertainment and social interaction?
- Best other ways to find viral short videos online without joining a social platform?
- How do short-form video social networks differ from traditional photo-sharing platforms?
- Short video content apps vs live streaming platforms: Which is better for quick entertainment?
- Is using short-form video social media worth it for increasing social connections?
- What are popular ways teens use short-form video platforms to make new friends?
- How can I fix issues with sound syncing on short-form video platforms?
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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