AI readiness of polar.sh: 100/100

100/100

We checked polar.sh 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	Yes	15 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 Payments

polar.sh ranks 7 of 18 payments sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 100. 14 of 18 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

ImproveServer responded in 1181 ms

Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://polar.sh/

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

20 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
(8 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, gptbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai, google-extended, applebot-extended".

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

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
(8 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, gptbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai, google-extended, applebot-extended".

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

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
(8 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, gptbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai, google-extended, applebot-extended".

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
(8 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, gptbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai, google-extended, applebot-extended".

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

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /verify-email/
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
(8 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, gptbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai, google-extended, applebot-extended".

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

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Perplexity-User
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
(8 more lines)
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot, chatgpt-user, gptbot, perplexitybot, perplexity-user, claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai, google-extended, applebot-extended".

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

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /verify-email/
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

Passllms.txt found and well formed

First line: "# Polar". 1 ## sections, 648 links, 86335 bytes.

Passllms-full.txt found

GET /llms-full.txt returned 200.

PassJSON-LD: 1 block, types Organization, ImageObject, WebSite

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassTitle, 59 characters

<title>Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era | Polar</title>

PassMeta description, 155 characters

content="Polar is the Merchant of Record for developers building AI-era software: payments, subscriptions, and usage-based billing, with global tax handled for you."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era | Polar
og:description: Polar is the Merchant of Record for developers building AI-era software: payments, subscr…
og:image: https://polar.sh/assets/brand/polar_og.jpg

PassCanonical link set

<link rel="canonical" href="https://polar.sh">

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Meet Polar</h1>

Pass5,927 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era | Polar Introducing the Polar Startup Program Features Integrate Docs Blog Company Sign in Get Started Togg…"

PassSitemap found, 41 URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://polar.sh/sitemap.xml
GET https://polar.sh/sitemap.xml returned 200.

PassHTML size 241 KB, 35 script tags

1 render-blocking script in <head>: /_next/static/immutable/chunks/0c0hxoamwjsbw.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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