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AI readiness of linode.com: 65/100

65/100

We checked linode.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

linode.com ranks 36 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 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.

FixNo JSON-LD structured data on the homepage

Found microdata (itemscope) but no <script type="application/ld+json"> block.

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 6365 ms

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

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

17 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /library/
Disallow: /docs/search/
Disallow: /docs/topresults/
Disallow: /community/questions/search/
(2 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassTitle, 62 characters

<title>The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai</title>

PassMeta description, 82 characters

content="Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
og:description: Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
og:image: https://assets.linode.com/akamai-logo.svg

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform</h1>

Pass7,231 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "The World&#39;s Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai Twitter LinkedIn Email Close X Skip to main content Search Docs Blog Support Sales Log in En…"

PassSitemap found, 19 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.linode.com/sitemap-index.xml
GET https://www.linode.com/sitemap-index.xml returned 200.

PassHTML size 158 KB, 18 script tags

1 render-blocking script in <head>: https://www.linode.com/ns/ot/202508.2.0/prod/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js

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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