AI readiness of close.com: 100/100

100/100

We checked close.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 CRM

close.com ranks 1 of 17 crm sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 97. 10 of 17 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

Improvellms.txt found, with gaps

First line: "# Close CRM". 57 ## sections, 0 links, 39253 bytes.

Fix: Add a one-line > summary under the heading. Few markdown links (0). List your key pages as [name](url): notes.

ImproveJSON-LD: 1 block, types Organization, ImageObject, Person, WebSite, SoftwareApplication, WebPage

Person is missing recommended url. SoftwareApplication is missing recommended offers.

Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.

ImproveMeta description, 192 characters

content="Close is the CRM with a built-in AI teammate that works with your team to call leads, qualify prospects, book meetings, and keep your CRM up to date automatically, so you can focus on selling."

Fix: Trim to about 160 characters.

ImproveServer responded in 998 ms

Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://close.com/

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

17 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 "*".

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.

PassTitle, 38 characters

<title>Close CRM | The CRM That Does the Work</title>

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Close CRM | Close More Deals. Manage Less CRM.
og:description: Close is the CRM with a built-in AI teammate that works with your team to call leads, qua…
og:image: https://close.com/assets/images/6a5acc895d474a4fdec39685_Close_OG_Image_Home_Page__3aa402…

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>The sales CRM built for calling, emailing, texting, automation and action The sales CRM built for c…</h1>

Pass6,715 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Close CRM | The CRM That Does the Work Skip to content Product The Platform The CRM built for action. Sales communication Email, calls, SMS — one inbox Sales a…"

PassSitemap found, 1,889 URLs

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

PassHTML size 155 KB, 17 script tags

1 render-blocking script in <head>: https://cdn.amplitude.com/script/7799281eee4586e09ffc8251cb5501c1.experiment.js?integration=segment

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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