- Visibility20
- Citations1
- Sentiment73
- Site quality87
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name ZipRecruiter in 25% of answers, much more often than the typical company in its sector at 10%. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 456th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the technology market: none named ZipRecruiter. AI assistants named it in 15 of 60 answers (25.0%). The typical technology company is named in 10.0% of answers. By how often it is named, ZipRecruiter ranks 59 of 273 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.
273 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“How much does it typically cost to post a job opening on a major recruiting platform in the US?”
The cost of posting a job opening on a major recruiting platform in the US varies significantly depending on the platform, the visibility desired, and the hiring volume. While some platforms offer free basic postings, paid options generally operate on a pay-per-click (PPC), pay-per-application, or subscription model.
Here's a breakdown of typical costs for major platforms:
Indeed:
Free Posts: Indeed offers free job postings, but these tend to lose visibility quickly.
Sponsored Jobs (PPC): These get priority visibility and operate on a pay-per-click model.
Minimum …
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 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.
- 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot 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 negotiationPassed
Requests sent with Accept: text/markdown receive a markdown version of the page.
- 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 38 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.ziprecruiter.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%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown 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 12 AI crawlers by name. All others follow its general rules.
- GPTBot*partly
- ClaudeBot*partly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extended*partly
- Applebot-Extended*partly
- Meta-ExternalAgent*partly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBot*partly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBot*partly
- Claude-SearchBot*partly
- PerplexityBot*partly
- Applebot*partly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-User*partly
- Claude-User*partly
- 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-listed.
- How can remote workers use online job boards to find flexible positions?
- How much does it typically cost to post a job opening on a major recruiting platform in the US?
- Where can experienced professionals find executive-level job listings online?
- Are there free options for employers to list jobs online?
- What other tools can employers use to source candidates besides online job search sites?
- Is paying for a premium job search subscription worth it?
- What should I do if my job application status never updates on a job search platform?
- What's the best way for employers to screen resumes using online recruiting platforms?
- What are alternatives to nationwide job boards for finding work in specialized fields?
- What are the best online platforms for job seekers in the US looking for local opportunities?
- Online recruiting platforms vs. traditional recruiting agencies: which is more efficient for employers?
- Which job search websites are most effective for recent college graduates?
- Do paid job postings on online platforms result in better candidate matches for employers?
- Why am I not receiving job alerts after signing up on an online job search site?
- How do general job boards compare to industry-specific job search sites?
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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