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AI readiness of algolia.com: 85/100

85/100

We checked algolia.com on 2026-10-18 with our free checker: six scored tests plus evidence for each finding. The score reflects the site on that date. The site may have changed after that date.

Test	Result	Points
llms.txt	No	0 of 15
JSON-LD schema on the homepage	Yes	20 of 20
Meta description	Yes	10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScript	Yes	20 of 20
Sitemap	Yes	10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt	8 of 8	25 of 25

Compared with Developer tools

algolia.com ranks 25 of 38 developer tools sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 100. 28 of 38 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

Fixllms.txt found, with gaps

First line: "Algolia". 7 ## sections, 27 links, 7866 bytes.

Fix: First line should be a # heading with your site or company name.

ImproveTitle, 68 characters

<title>The AI search and retrieval platform - Agentic | Generative | Search</title>

Fix: Shorten to about 50 to 60 characters so tools do not cut it off.

ImproveMeta description, 181 characters

content="18,000+ organizations trust Algolia to build intuitive, adaptive, high-performing experiences with a unified AI search & retrieval platform spanning agentic, generative, and search."

Fix: Trim to about 160 characters.

FixServer responded in 2161 ms

Time to response headers from our checker, after 1 redirect. Final URL: https://www.algolia.com/

Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.

ImproveHTML size 285 KB, 48 script tags

5 render-blocking scripts in <head>: https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js

Fix: Add defer or async to scripts in <head> that are not needed for first paint.

16 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /policies/ai-personalization
Disallow: /policies/marketplace-trial-terms
Disallow: /policies/value-engineering-specific-terms
Disallow: /policies/startup-program-terms
Disallow: /policies/algolia-core-foundation
(20 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

NoteNo llms-full.txt

GET /llms-full.txt returned 404.

Fix: Optional: publish /llms-full.txt with the full text of key pages for tools that want more than a map.

PassJSON-LD: 1 block, types Organization, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, WebSite, SearchAction, SpeakableSpecification

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: The AI search and retrieval platform - Agentic | Generative | Search
og:description: 18,000+ organizations trust Algolia to build intuitive, adaptive, high-performing experie…
og:image: https://www.algolia.com/files/live/sites/algolia-assets/files/opengraph/algolia-opengraph…

PassCanonical link set

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.algolia.com">

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Agentic. Generative. Search</h1>

Pass9,063 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "The AI search and retrieval platform - Agentic | Generative | Search English Deutsch français English German French Brazilian Portuguese Spanish Italian Join u…"

PassSitemap found, 3 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.algolia.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.algolia.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.

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Scoring: llms.txt 15, JSON-LD 20, meta description 10, readable text 20, sitemap 10, AI crawler access 25. Want this page changed or removed? Email [email protected].

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