AI readiness leaderboard · Finance and accounting

AI readiness of bench.co: 65/100

65/100

We checked bench.co 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	No	0 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 Finance and accounting

bench.co ranks 14 of 17 finance and accounting sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 10 of 17 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

FixNo llms.txt

GET /llms.txt returned 404.

Fix: Create /llms.txt: a # title, a > one-line summary, then ## sections that list key pages as [name](url). Draft one free at checkaiready.com/llms-txt-generator.

FixNo JSON-LD structured data on the homepage

No <script type="application/ld+json"> block in the HTML we received.

Fix: Add an Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD block to the homepage with name, url, logo, and sameAs links. The $19 report includes a ready-to-paste block for your site.

FixServer responded in 2127 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 59 KB, 33 script tags

3 render-blocking scripts in <head>: https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.26/webfont.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: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassTitle, 39 characters

<title>Online Bookkeeping Done for You | Bench</title>

PassMeta description, 153 characters

content="Bench pairs you with a dedicated bookkeeper and simple software, so your books get done for you. Trusted by 35,000+ U.S. businesses. See how Bench works."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Online Bookkeeping Done for You | Bench
og:description: Bench pairs you with a dedicated bookkeeper and simple software, so your books get done f…
og:image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64559587fb856f82933854bf/64c085f260dc48172089af7f_Fram…

PassCanonical link set

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.bench.co">

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Bookkeeping done for you.</h1>

Pass8,640 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Online Bookkeeping Done for You | Bench Services Bookkeeping + Software Ongoing monthly books, done for you in Bench&#x27;s proprietary technology Just Bookkee…"

PassSitemap found, 1,040 URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.bench.co/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.bench.co/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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