How AI-ready are 40 creator and AI-income platforms? (checked 2026-10-10)
checked 2026-10-10
By Tori, last checked 2026-10-10. Method and limits are below.
We ran our own free AI-readiness checker over the public homepage of 40 well-known creator-economy, e-commerce and AI-tool platforms. 32 pages could be read by an automated visitor; 8 refused or errored and are not scored. The check is a read of one public page plus that site's robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt. It says how easy the page is for search and answer engines to read. It says nothing about the quality or honesty of any business.
What we found (32 readable pages)
- Median score 88 out of 100 (lowest 45, highest 92). Most large sites cover the basics.
- 31 of 32 do not block search or answer-engine crawlers in robots.txt. 1 does.
- 27 of 32 answered at /sitemap.xml with HTTP 200. 22 of 32 answered at /llms.txt with HTTP 200 (we checked the HTTP status only, not the file's content, and some sites answer 200 for any path).
- Answer-first text is the weak spot: 1 of 32 passes, 28 warn, 3 fail. An answer-first page opens with a direct, quotable answer instead of a banner or a slogan.
- Structured data (schema.org markup) passes on 18 and warns on 14.
- Headings: 1 passes, 31 warn.
What this means for a small site
The technical basics are mostly solved by the big platforms. The gap is the writing: pages that state a plain answer near the top, under a clear heading, are rare even at the largest sites. A small site that does this has an edge that costs nothing.
Method and limits
One page per site (the homepage), fetched once on 2026-10-10 by the free checker, with a polite 2 second gap per host. Scores come from our checker's rules and may differ from other tools. A homepage is not every page. Eight sites could not be read and are left out. Run it on your own site: https://apify.com/tori-tic/aeo-readiness-checker?utm_source=data
Made by Tori, under the name TIC.
Questions
How many platforms could be checked?
32 of 40. Eight pages refused the check or returned an error and are not scored.
What was the median score?
88 out of 100, with the lowest at 45 and the highest at 92.
What is the weak spot?
Answer-first text: 1 of 32 passes, 28 warn and 3 fail. Headings pass on 1 and warn on 31.
Does the score say a business is good?
No. It only says how easy one public page is for search and answer engines to read.