- Visibility34
- Citations5
- Sentiment50
- Site quality84
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name The Weather Channel in 40% of answers, which is more frequent than the typical company in the Media sector at 15%. Its overall score is 40 out of 100, ranking 367th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the media market: none named The Weather Channel. AI assistants named it in 24 of 60 answers (40.0%). The typical media company is named in 15.0% of answers. By how often it is named, The Weather Channel ranks 25 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
“Non-app options for tracking local air quality and cold & flu updates online”
I'll search for information about online tools and resources for tracking air quality and cold & flu updates without requiring apps.Great! I found excellent options for both. Here's a breakdown of non-app ways to track air quality and cold & flu updates online:
Air Quality Tracking Websites
You can check air quality from your browser without installing a dedicated app, as there are numerous websites offering similar features:
AirNow.gov - For current air quality, visit AirNow.gov
AQI.in - Check real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) for locations & cities worldwide, tracking PM2.5 …
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%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 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 36 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · weather.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 8 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBot*blocked
- Bytespider*blocked
- CCBot*blocked
- Diffbot*blocked
- Omgilibot*blocked
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbot*blocked
- YouBot*blocked
- ChatGPT-User*allowed
- 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 Large private companies. One of the most visited websites in the United States (Similarweb, August 2026).
- Non-app options for tracking local air quality and cold & flu updates online
- What weather information do parents need from online services to plan outdoor family activities?
- Why is my location showing inaccurate temperatures on online weather platforms?
- Hourly weather forecast vs. daily summary: Which is more reliable for planning outdoor events?
- How much do ad-free weather forecast websites typically cost per year?
- What can I do if weather radar maps are not loading properly on my browser?
- How do weather apps compare to full-featured weather websites for detailed forecasts?
- Where to read weather-related news and safety tips online for severe storms
- Best websites for real-time local weather forecasts and radar in the US
- Are there any free online services that offer extended 10-day weather forecasts?
- Do paid local weather websites offer better radar data than free options?
- How can allergy sufferers use online weather tools to track daily pollen counts?
- Is paying for a premium online weather service worth it for frequent travelers?
- Alternatives to mobile weather apps for getting severe weather alerts online
- Where can I find accurate hurricane tracking maps 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.
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