AI readiness leaderboard · Finance and accounting

AI readiness of freshbooks.com: 65/100

65/100

We checked freshbooks.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 Finance and accounting

freshbooks.com ranks 16 of 17 finance and accounting sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 10 of 17 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.

FixServer responded in 2060 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 976 KB, 96 script tags

1 render-blocking script in <head>: /_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js

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

16 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /*-temp$
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /forumtest/
(11 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /*-temp$
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /forumtest/
(11 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-Agent: Googlebot
User-Agent: bingbot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "googlebot, bingbot, chatgpt-user".

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "claudebot, amazonbot, yandexbot".

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

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /*-temp$
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /forumtest/
(11 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /*-temp$
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /forumtest/
(11 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /*-temp$
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /forumtest/
(11 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-Agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /*-temp$
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /forumtest/
(11 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassTitle, 65 characters

<title>Invoice and Accounting Software for Small Businesses - FreshBooks</title>

PassMeta description, 154 characters

content="The best cloud based small business accounting software. Send invoices, track time, manage receipts, expenses, and accept credit cards. Free 30-day trial."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Invoice and Accounting Software for Small Businesses - FreshBooks
og:description: The best cloud based small business accounting software. Send invoices, track time, manag…
og:image: https://www.freshbooks.com/media/2026/07/fb-logo-share-link.png

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Your everyday small business software</h1>

Pass43,965 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Invoice and Accounting Software for Small Businesses - FreshBooks Free onboarding support + 80% off FreshBooks* Terms Apply Get set up with a FreshBooks specia…"

PassSitemap found, 15 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.freshbooks.com/sitemap_index.xml
GET https://www.freshbooks.com/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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