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AI readiness of hootsuite.com: 80/100

80/100

We checked hootsuite.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.

TestResultPoints
llms.txtYes15 of 15
JSON-LD schema on the homepageNo0 of 20
Meta descriptionYes10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScriptYes20 of 20
SitemapYes10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt8 of 825 of 25

Compared with Social media

hootsuite.com ranks 15 of 18 social media sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 10 of 18 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

Improvellms.txt found, with gaps

First line: "# Hootsuite". 0 ## sections, 99 links, 21331 bytes.

Fix: Add a one-line > summary under the heading. Add ## sections that group your key pages.

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 2145 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 430 KB, 17 script tags

1 render-blocking script in <head>: https://cdn.optimizely.com/js/4894383279964160.js

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

17 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
(16 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "gptbot".

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

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
(16 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot".

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

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
(16 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "chatgpt-user".

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
(16 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "claudebot".

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
Disallow: /feed*
(15 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
(16 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "perplexitybot".

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

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
(16 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "google-extended".

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: *d=pro*
Disallow: /*?*srsltid
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /signup*
Disallow: /feed*
(15 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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, 54 characters

<title>Social Media Marketing and Management Tool | Hootsuite</title>

PassMeta description, 131 characters

content="Hootsuite is a social media management tool that brings scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening to one place."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Social Media Marketing & Management Dashboard - Hootsuite
og:description: Hootsuite is a social media management tool that brings scheduling, content creation, ana…
og:image: https://images.ctfassets.net/ta4ffdi8h2om/2e939I9iQUeZCq5jO7cXP3/ee5e562f3e215343daade4f3…

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en-us

<html lang="en-us">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Rated #1 in social media management Social can be chaotic. complicated. risky. sloppy. noisy. Hoots…</h1>

Pass10,881 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Social Media Marketing and Management Tool | Hootsuite Skip to content homepage Products HOOTSUITE SOCIAL OS Everything social. One place. Connected by AI. Per…"

PassSitemap found, 2,901+ URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.hootsuite.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.hootsuite.com/sitemap.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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