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Automotive & transport AI readiness statistics

In November 2026, we could only place a site in an industry where our scanner could read the page, so this page covers Automotive & transport sites we could read and says nothing about how many turned our scanner away.

Updated 21:07 UTC · November 2026

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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How Automotive & transport sites land

Every page we read gets a score out of 100, the number at the top of its report (how scoring works). Each row is a range of scores. Where too few sites score in the lowest ranges, they are joined into one row.

Not enough sites yet There are not enough sites yet to split them by score.

An industry is only known for a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the Automotive & transport sites we could read.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

Better or worse

Not enough history yet.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

AI access

  • robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers 3%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 3%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers3%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers3%

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

What Automotive & transport sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Open Graph tags for sharing” (49%, against 26% of all sites); “A machine-readable published / updated date” (31%, against 12% of all sites); “Core security headers are set” (25%, against 11% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Automotive & transport site we could read passed.

Every check, Automotive & transport against all sites

Share of sites that pass each check, over the sites the check applies to. The Gap column is the difference in percentage points between the two shares; a dash means not enough sites yet.

Check Automotive & transport sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 82% 94% −12 points
No mixed (insecure) content 100% 99% +1 point
Core security headers are set 25% 11% +14 points
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 90% 93% −3 points
security.txt is published 10% 5% +5 points
Reached without a redirect chain 99% 98% +1 point
Caching or validation headers are set 85% 94% −9 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 79% 87% −8 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 79% 90% −11 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 97% 99% −2 points
This page declares its canonical URL 67% 60% +7 points
Mobile viewport is set 88% 93% −5 points
Has a title tag 100% >99% Level
Title fits a search snippet 58% 57% +1 point
Has a meta description 97% 91% +6 points
Description fits a search snippet 64% 64% Level
The page has an H1 72% 84% −12 points
Logical heading order 58% 63% −5 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 46% 62% −16 points
Images have descriptive alt text 88% 94% −6 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 97% 99% −2 points
Open Graph tags for sharing 49% 26% +23 points
Twitter/X card tags 73% 73% Level
XML sitemap is present and referenced 64% 74% −10 points
Missing pages return a real 404 73% 91% −18 points
Images are optimised 17% 14% +3 points
Language and charset declared 94% 87% +7 points
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 81% 76% +5 points
Search Console / Bing verification 73% 82% −9 points
A favicon is set 97% 98% −1 point
No meta-refresh redirect 100% >99% Level
Your content survives without JavaScript 93% 96% −3 points
Your answer is in the HTML 94% 95% −1 point
Buttons, links and fields have names 29% 32% −3 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 57% 52% +5 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 88% 93% −5 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 58% 56% +2 points
Section headings are phrased as questions 20% 21% −1 point
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 89% 89% Level
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% >99% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed 67% 67% Level
The links in llms.txt resolve — 85% —
Author / publisher is clear 40% 49% −9 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 31% 12% +19 points
llms.txt is present and valid 22% 27% −5 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 9% 4% +5 points
Structured data is present 48% 55% −7 points
Structured data is valid 97% 97% Level
FAQ / Q&A schema — 47% —
Organization schema with sameAs 24% 32% −8 points
Right schema type for the page 83% 93% −10 points
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 56% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 27% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 88% 90% −2 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 77% 95% −18 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 13% 14% −1 point
Content usage preferences declared 7% 4% +3 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 9% 2% +7 points
No broken links 82% 86% −4 points
Links don't point at redirects 86% 91% −5 points
Descriptive anchor text 98% 99% −1 point
Sensible internal/external link mix 98% 96% +2 points
Links are real links 82% 89% −7 points
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) — — —
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — — —
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — — —
Page weight and render-blocking — — —
MCP Server Card 7% 1% +6 points
AI catalog 6% 1% +5 points
A2A Agent Card 8% <1% +8 points
WebMCP tools in the page 0% 1% −1 point
AI usage preferences (Content-Usage) 0% <1% Level
Licensing terms for AI (RSL) 0% <1% Level
Text-and-data-mining reservation (TDMRep) 0% <1% Level
Markdown version linked from the page 8% 1% +7 points
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 6% 1% +5 points
API catalog 7% 1% +6 points
OAuth authorization-server metadata 3% 3% Level
OAuth protected-resource metadata 1% 2% −1 point
OpenID Connect discovery 0% 2% −2 points
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — 6% —
Auth.md agent registration 6% <1% +6 points
AI discovery via DNS 4% <1% +4 points

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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