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AI readiness of discord.com: 85/100

85/100

We checked discord.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	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 Communication

discord.com ranks 1 of 2 communication sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 82.5. 1 of 2 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: Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun &amp; Games. 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.

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.

ImproveJSON-LD: 3 blocks, types WebSite, SearchAction, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebPageElement, ImageObject, Organization, ContactPoint

Organization is missing recommended url, logo, sameAs.

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

ImproveServer responded in 1059 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 166 KB, 31 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: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
(29 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassTitle, 43 characters

<title>Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games</title>

PassMeta description, 155 characters

content="Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
og:description: Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwid…
og:image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6257adef93867e50d84d30e2/665643dd8c7ac752237b5cef_Disc…

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Group chat that’s all fun & games</h1>

Pass4,251 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun &amp; Games Skip to main content Download 1 of 9 Nitro 2 of 9 Discover 3 of 9 Resources Server Directory 1 of 2 Trending Ga…"

PassSitemap found, 1 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://discord.com/servers/servers-sitemap-index.xml
GET https://discord.com/servers/servers-sitemap-index.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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