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AI readiness of moz.com: 85/100
85/100
We checked moz.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 SEO tools
moz.com ranks 10 of 20 seo tools sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 6 of 20 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: Moz - SEO Software for Smarter Marketing. 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: 1 block, types WebPage, ImageObject, Organization, PostalAddress, BreadcrumbList, ListItem
Organization is missing recommended sameAs.
Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.
ImproveMeta description, 187 characters
content="Backed by the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds the tools that make SEO, content marketing, market research, digital PR, and local SEO easy. Start your free trial today!"
Fix: Trim to about 160 characters.
ImproveServer responded in 1036 ms
Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://moz.com/
Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.
16 checks passed or noted
PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /
User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /blog/ Disallow: /learn/seo/ Group "gptbot" has no rule for /.
PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /
User-agent: * Allow: /researchtools/ose/$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/dotbot$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/links$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/just-discovered$ Allow: /researchtools/ose/pages$ (26 more lines) Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassTitle, 40 characters
<title>Moz - SEO Software for Smarter Marketing</title>
PassOpen Graph tags present
og:title: SEO Software for Smarter Marketing og:description: Backed by the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds the tools that make SEO… og:image: https://moz.com/images/cms/Moz-OG-Image-2024.jpg?w=1200&h=630&q=82&auto=format&fit=crop&d…
PassCanonical link set
<link rel="canonical" href="https://moz.com/">
PassLanguage declared: en-US
<html lang="en-US">
Pass1 H1 heading
<h1>Show up in search. Show up in AI. Own the results.</h1>
Pass16,695 characters of text without JavaScript
Text starts: "Moz - SEO Software for Smarter Marketing Skip to content Moz logo Menu open Menu close Search Products Moz Pro Moz Pro Home Moz Local Moz Local Home STAT Moz A…"
PassSitemap found, 54 child sitemaps
robots.txt: Sitemap: https://moz.com/sitemaps-1-sitemap.xml GET https://moz.com/sitemaps-1-sitemap.xml returned 200.
PassHTML size 163 KB, 20 script tags
1 render-blocking script in <head>: https://moz.com/tags.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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