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AI readiness of joist.com: 85/100

85/100

We checked joist.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 Field service

joist.com ranks 12 of 19 field service sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 10 of 19 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

FixNo llms.txt

GET /llms.txt returned no response.

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.

ImproveOpen Graph: missing og:image

og:title: Contractor Estimating, Invoicing, & Payment Software | Joist
og:description: Join 1.3M+ contractors on Joist. Create estimates and invoices, accept online payments, &…
og:image: missing

Fix: Add <meta property="og:image" content="...">. Chat apps and AI tools use these for link previews.

ImproveServer responded in 1192 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 384 KB, 8 script tags

0 render-blocking scripts in <head>

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: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassJSON-LD: 1 block, types WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, ReadAction, Person, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, PropertyValueSpecification

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassTitle, 60 characters

<title>Contractor Estimating, Invoicing, & Payment Software | Joist</title>

PassMeta description, 158 characters

content="Join 1.3M+ contractors on Joist. Create estimates and invoices, accept online payments, & manage jobs from anywhere. Save time, look professional, & get paid."

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en-US

<html lang="en-US">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Estimate, Invoice and Get Paid Faster</h1>

Pass9,822 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Contractor Estimating, Invoicing, &amp; Payment Software | Joist Skip to content Product Get Paid Move jobs from estimate to payment in one simple workflow bui…"

PassSitemap found, 5 child sitemaps

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