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Food & drink 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 Food & drink sites we could read and says nothing about how many turned our scanner away.

Updated 13:07 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 Food & drink 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 Food & drink 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 10%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 3%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers10%
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 Food & drink sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Images are optimised” (28%, against 13% of all sites); “Buttons, links and fields have names” (44%, against 32% of all sites); “Open Graph tags for sharing” (29%, against 23% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Food & drink site we could read passed.

Every check, Food & drink 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 Food & drink sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 98% 95% +3 points
No mixed (insecure) content 98% 99% −1 point
Core security headers are set 9% 9% Level
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 94% 94% Level
security.txt is published 5% 5% Level
Reached without a redirect chain 100% 99% +1 point
Caching or validation headers are set 91% 95% −4 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 85% 87% −2 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 94% 91% +3 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 97% 99% −2 points
This page declares its canonical URL 50% 59% −9 points
Mobile viewport is set 94% 94% Level
Has a title tag 100% >99% Level
Title fits a search snippet 64% 59% +5 points
Has a meta description 91% 91% Level
Description fits a search snippet 65% 64% +1 point
The page has an H1 73% 87% −14 points
Logical heading order 59% 64% −5 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 53% 65% −12 points
Images have descriptive alt text 97% 96% +1 point
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 100% 99% +1 point
Open Graph tags for sharing 29% 23% +6 points
Twitter/X card tags 61% 75% −14 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 74% 76% −2 points
Missing pages return a real 404 91% 93% −2 points
Images are optimised 28% 13% +15 points
Language and charset declared 85% 85% Level
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 74% 76% −2 points
Search Console / Bing verification 70% 82% −12 points
A favicon is set 100% 99% +1 point
No meta-refresh redirect 100% >99% Level
Your content survives without JavaScript 94% 97% −3 points
Your answer is in the HTML 92% 96% −4 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 44% 32% +12 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 45% 50% −5 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 94% 94% Level
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 56% 56% Level
Section headings are phrased as questions 23% 22% +1 point
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 94% 92% +2 points
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% >99% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed 60% 68% −8 points
The links in llms.txt resolve — 84% —
Author / publisher is clear 44% 51% −7 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 14% 11% +3 points
llms.txt is present and valid 24% 29% −5 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 0% 4% −4 points
Structured data is present 48% 56% −8 points
Structured data is valid 100% 97% +3 points
FAQ / Q&A schema — 47% —
Organization schema with sameAs 24% 33% −9 points
Right schema type for the page 97% 95% +2 points
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 57% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 28% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 89% 92% −3 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 98% 99% −1 point
Your page arrives quickly 97% 97% Level
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 14% 14% Level
Content usage preferences declared 6% 4% +2 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 2% 2% Level
No broken links 76% 87% −11 points
Links don't point at redirects 93% 92% +1 point
Descriptive anchor text 98% 99% −1 point
Sensible internal/external link mix 94% 96% −2 points
Links are real links 91% 92% −1 point
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) — — —
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — — —
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — — —
Page weight and render-blocking — — —
MCP Server Card 0% 1% −1 point
AI catalog 0% 1% −1 point
A2A Agent Card 0% <1% Level
WebMCP tools in the page 2% <1% +2 points
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 0% 1% −1 point
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 0% 1% −1 point
API catalog 0% 1% −1 point
OAuth authorization-server metadata 5% 2% +3 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 5% 2% +3 points
OpenID Connect discovery 5% 2% +3 points
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — 7% —
Auth.md agent registration 0% <1% Level
AI discovery via DNS 0% <1% Level

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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