AI readiness leaderboard · Email marketing
AI readiness of beehiiv.com: 100/100
100/100
We checked beehiiv.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 | Yes | 15 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 Email marketing
beehiiv.com ranks 2 of 21 email marketing sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 100. 15 of 21 have an llms.txt file.
Findings with evidence
FixHomepage serves a bot challenge page to automated clients
Our checker got a challenge page instead of your content: Newsletter Platform: Create Newsletters and Websites - beehiiv. Findings below describe that page, not your real homepage.
Fix: AI crawlers get the same challenge and cannot read your site. In your CDN or firewall (Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva), allow verified AI search bots, or lower the bot protection level on public pages.
ImproveJSON-LD: 4 blocks, types Organization, ImageObject, Person, PostalAddress, ContactPoint, WebSite, SearchAction, SoftwareApplication, AggregateOffer, Offer, WebPage, SpeakableSpecification, FAQPage, Question, Answer
Person is missing recommended url. Offer is missing recommended availability.
Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.
FixServer responded in 2393 ms
Time to response headers from our checker, after 1 redirect. Final URL: https://www.beehiiv.com/
Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.
19 checks passed or noted
PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot".
PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*.md$ Disallow: /ads-exclusion Disallow: /linkedinpremium Disallow: /amazoncreatorstars (36 more lines) Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
Passllms.txt found and well formed
First line: "# beehiiv". 7 ## sections, 67 links, 10149 bytes.
NoteNo llms-full.txt
GET /llms-full.txt returned no response.
Fix: Optional: publish /llms-full.txt with the full text of key pages for tools that want more than a map.
PassTitle, 62 characters
<title>Newsletter Platform: Create Newsletters and Websites - beehiiv</title>
PassMeta description, 134 characters
content="Create, grow, and monetize your newsletter with easy-to-use newsletter tools. Build email newsletters and websites without any coding."
PassOpen Graph tags present
og:title: Newsletter Platform: Create Newsletters and Websites - beehiiv og:description: Create, grow, and monetize your newsletter with easy-to-use newsletter tools. Build email… og:image: https://media.beehiiv.com/www/og-image/og-beehiiv.png
PassCanonical link set
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.beehiiv.com">
PassLanguage declared: en-us
<html lang="en-us">
Pass1 H1 heading
<h1>NEWSLETTERS. PODCASTS. COMMUNITY. ONE PLATFORM.</h1>
Pass9,115 characters of text without JavaScript
Text starts: "Newsletter Platform: Create Newsletters and Websites - beehiiv Sign up Product Newsletters Own your subscriber list Podcasts Turn listeners into subscribers Di…"
PassSitemap found, 3 child sitemaps
robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.beehiiv.com/sitemap-index.xml GET https://www.beehiiv.com/sitemap-index.xml returned 200.
PassHTML size 186 KB, 60 script tags
1 render-blocking script in <head>: /_next/static/chunks/03~yq9q893hmn.js
Fix: Add defer or async to scripts in <head> that are not needed for first paint.
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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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