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AI readiness of digitalocean.com: 65/100
65/100
We checked digitalocean.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 | Yes | 20 of 20 |
| Sitemap | Yes | 10 of 10 |
| AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt | 8 of 8 | 25 of 25 |
Compared with Developer tools
digitalocean.com ranks 35 of 38 developer tools sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 100. 28 of 38 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.
ImproveOpen Graph: missing og:image
og:title: AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean og:description: Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built… og:image: missing
Fix: Add <meta property="og:image" content="...">. Chat apps and AI tools use these for link previews.
FixServer responded in 2143 ms
Time to response headers from our checker, after 1 redirect. Final URL: https://www.digitalocean.com/
Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.
16 checks passed or noted
PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /v1/login Disallow: /auth-error Disallow: /community/login Disallow: /community/register Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".
PassTitle, 30 characters
<title>AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean</title>
PassMeta description, 139 characters
content="Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale."
PassCanonical link set
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.digitalocean.com">
PassLanguage declared: en
<html lang="en">
Pass1 H1 heading
<h1>AI-Native Cloud</h1>
Pass9,264 characters of text without JavaScript
Text starts: "AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean Blog Docs Careers Get Support Contact Sales DigitalOcean Products Featured AI Products Compute Build, deploy, and scale cloud co…"
PassSitemap found, 36 child sitemaps
robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.digitalocean.com/sitemap.xml GET https://www.digitalocean.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.
PassHTML size 290 KB, 53 script tags
1 render-blocking script in <head>: /_do-www-marketing/1ce3d89e/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js?dpl=1ce3d89e
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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