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Technology & hardware 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 Technology & hardware 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 Technology & hardware 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 Technology & hardware 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 4%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 0%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers4%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers0%

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 Technology & hardware sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Language and charset declared” (96%, against 85% of all sites); “No broken links” (97%, against 87% of all sites); “Twitter/X card tags” (84%, against 75% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Technology & hardware site we could read passed.

Every check, Technology & hardware 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 Technology & hardware sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 97% 95% +2 points
No mixed (insecure) content 99% 99% Level
Core security headers are set 3% 9% −6 points
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 94% 94% Level
security.txt is published 6% 5% +1 point
Reached without a redirect chain 100% 99% +1 point
Caching or validation headers are set 99% 95% +4 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 83% 87% −4 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 96% 91% +5 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 100% 99% +1 point
This page declares its canonical URL 53% 59% −6 points
Mobile viewport is set 99% 94% +5 points
Has a title tag 100% >99% Level
Title fits a search snippet 63% 59% +4 points
Has a meta description 94% 91% +3 points
Description fits a search snippet 61% 64% −3 points
The page has an H1 91% 87% +4 points
Logical heading order 53% 64% −11 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 71% 65% +6 points
Images have descriptive alt text 93% 96% −3 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 100% 99% +1 point
Open Graph tags for sharing 21% 23% −2 points
Twitter/X card tags 84% 75% +9 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 73% 76% −3 points
Missing pages return a real 404 96% 93% +3 points
Images are optimised 9% 13% −4 points
Language and charset declared 96% 85% +11 points
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 81% 76% +5 points
Search Console / Bing verification 89% 82% +7 points
A favicon is set 100% 99% +1 point
No meta-refresh redirect 100% >99% Level
Your content survives without JavaScript 99% 97% +2 points
Your answer is in the HTML 97% 96% +1 point
Buttons, links and fields have names 22% 32% −10 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 50% 50% Level
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 99% 94% +5 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 56% 56% Level
Section headings are phrased as questions 14% 22% −8 points
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 75% 68% +7 points
The links in llms.txt resolve — 84% —
Author / publisher is clear 51% 51% Level
A machine-readable published / updated date 4% 11% −7 points
llms.txt is present and valid 21% 29% −8 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 4% 4% Level
Structured data is present 57% 56% +1 point
Structured data is valid 98% 97% +1 point
FAQ / Q&A schema — 47% —
Organization schema with sameAs 36% 33% +3 points
Right schema type for the page 95% 95% Level
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 57% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 28% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 94% 92% +2 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 97% 97% Level
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 7% 14% −7 points
Content usage preferences declared 3% 4% −1 point
Resource-discovery Link headers 0% 2% −2 points
No broken links 97% 87% +10 points
Links don't point at redirects 94% 92% +2 points
Descriptive anchor text 99% 99% Level
Sensible internal/external link mix 100% 96% +4 points
Links are real links 94% 92% +2 points
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 0% <1% Level
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 4% 2% +2 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 4% 2% +2 points
OpenID Connect discovery 4% 2% +2 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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