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AI readiness of bigcommerce.com: 100/100

100/100

We checked bigcommerce.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 Website builders

bigcommerce.com ranks 1 of 18 website builders sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 98.5. 10 of 18 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

Improvellms.txt found, with gaps

First line: "# BigCommerce". 10 ## sections, 0 links, 3705 bytes.

Fix: Only 0 markdown links. List your key pages as [name](url): notes.

FixServer responded in 2232 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 976 KB, 13 script tags

0 render-blocking scripts in <head>

Fix: Large HTML slows crawlers and tools with size limits. Move inline data and scripts out of the HTML.

18 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
(44 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: 3 blocks, types Corporation, PostalAddress, WebSite, SearchAction, WebPage

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassTitle, 42 characters

<title>Commerce built for momentum. | BigCommerce</title>

PassMeta description, 122 characters

content="Power modern buying experiences across brands, regions, and channels — all from a single, scalable foundation. Learn more."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Commerce built for momentum. | BigCommerce
og:description: Power modern buying experiences across brands, regions, and channels — all from a single,…
og:image: https://storage.googleapis.com/s.mkswft.com/RmlsZToyOTllMzFlYS00OGI4LTQ4ZTAtOTA0Ny1kNzIxN…

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en-US

<html lang="en-US">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Get your brand ready for agentic commerce .</h1>

Pass135,885 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Commerce built for momentum. | BigCommerce Commerce Feedonomics Makeswift Help Center Developer Center Log In 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Australia 🇩🇰 Danmark 🇩🇪 Deutschland…"

PassSitemap found, 734 URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/sitemap-blog.xml
GET https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/sitemap-blog.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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