AI readiness of canva.com: 36/100

36/100

We checked canva.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	No	0 of 20
Meta description	Yes	10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScript	No	0 of 20
Sitemap	Yes	10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt	5 of 8	16 of 25

Compared with Design

canva.com ranks 19 of 19 design sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 7 of 19 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: Unsupported client – Canva. 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.

ImproveGPTBot (OpenAI, training): blocked on /

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
(92 more lines)
Matching rule: "disallow: /" in group "gptbot, claudebot, ccbot, applebot-extended, anthropic-ai, claude-web".

Fix: This bot is used for training. Blocking it is a valid choice. To allow it, add:
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

ImproveClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): blocked on /

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
(92 more lines)
Matching rule: "disallow: /" in group "gptbot, claudebot, ccbot, applebot-extended, anthropic-ai, claude-web".

Fix: This bot is used for training. Blocking it is a valid choice. To allow it, add:
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

ImproveCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): blocked on /

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
(92 more lines)
Matching rule: "disallow: /" in group "gptbot, claudebot, ccbot, applebot-extended, anthropic-ai, claude-web".

Fix: This bot is used for open dataset. Blocking it is a valid choice. To allow it, add:
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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.

ImproveMeta description, 26 characters

content="Unsupported client – Canva"

Fix: Expand to 120 to 160 characters.

ImproveOpen Graph: missing og:title

og:title: missing
og:description: Unsupported client – Canva
og:image: https://static.canva.com/static/images/fb_cover-1.jpg

Fix: Add <meta property="og:title" content="...">. Chat apps and AI tools use these for link previews.

ImproveNo canonical link

No <link rel="canonical"> in <head>.

Fix: Add <link rel="canonical" href="https://canva.com/"> so crawlers know which URL to cite.

FixHomepage is set to noindex

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive">

Fix: Remove noindex. Search engines drop noindex pages and AI search tools that use those indexes skip them.

Fix342 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Unsupported client – Canva Please update your browser It seems you are using an old or unsupported browser. To continue enjoying Canva, please update to a rece…"

Fix: Many AI crawlers do not run JavaScript. Render the main content on the server or prerender it.

ImproveSitemap listed in robots.txt but did not load

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://sitemap.canva.com/sitemap_index.xml
GET https://www.canva.com/sitemap.xml returned 404.

Fix: Fix the sitemap URL so it returns XML with status 200.

ImproveServer responded in 1048 ms

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

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

9 checks passed or noted

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /media/*
Disallow: /template/*
Disallow: /_ok
Disallow: /_blank
(104 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /media/*
Disallow: /template/*
Disallow: /_ok
Disallow: /_blank
(104 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /media/*
Disallow: /template/*
Disallow: /_ok
Disallow: /_blank
(104 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsIdxBot
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
(4 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "adsbot-google, adsidxbot, google-inspectiontool, facebookexternalhit, linkedinbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, canva-slackapp-linkexpanding, canva-teamsapp-linkexpanding".

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /media/*
Disallow: /template/*
Disallow: /_ok
Disallow: /_blank
(104 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassTitle, 26 characters

<title>Unsupported client – Canva</title>

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Please update your browser</h1>

PassHTML size 10 KB, 4 script tags

0 render-blocking scripts in <head>

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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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