AI readiness leaderboard · Payments
AI readiness of recurly.com: 100/100
100/100
We checked recurly.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 | 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
recurly.com ranks 8 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
ImproveTitle, 71 characters
<title>Subscription Management Software & Recurring Billing Platform | Recurly</title>
Fix: Shorten to about 50 to 60 characters so tools do not cut it off.
ImproveMeta description, 197 characters
content="Recurly powers subscription management and recurring billing for high-volume digital commerce. Launch, retain, and scale with a platform that handles billions in annual payments for leading brands."
Fix: Trim to about 160 characters.
ImproveServer responded in 1187 ms
Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://recurly.com/
Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.
18 checks passed or noted
PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /
User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "gptbot".
PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "oai-searchbot".
PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "chatgpt-user".
PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /
User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "claudebot".
PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "claude-searchbot".
PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /
User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "perplexitybot".
PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /
User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "google-extended".
PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /
User-agent: CCBot Allow: / Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "ccbot".
Passllms.txt found and well formed
First line: "# Recurly". 10 ## sections, 117 links, 16123 bytes.
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.
PassJSON-LD: 1 block, types Organization, ImageObject, WebSite, WebPage, BusinessAudience, BreadcrumbList, ListItem
Every typed block has its required properties.
PassOpen Graph tags present
og:title: Subscription Management Software & Recurring Billing Platform | Recurly og:description: Recurly powers subscription management and recurring billing for high-volume digital comm… og:image: https://images.ctfassets.net/wob906kz2qeo/5sjNhavaSPS1nU2z89cPLi/281e51be82c39d72fd5c8e49…
PassCanonical link set
<link rel="canonical" href="https://recurly.com/">
PassLanguage declared: en
<html lang="en">
Pass1 H1 heading
<h1>Most platforms stop at billing. Recurly covers the entire subscriber lifecycle.</h1>
Pass7,606 characters of text without JavaScript
Text starts: "Subscription Management Software & Recurring Billing Platform | Recurly Get started Products Solutions Resources Case studies Pricing Log In Get started Th…"
PassSitemap found, 1,316 URLs
robots.txt: Sitemap: https://recurly.com/sitemap.xml GET https://recurly.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.
PassHTML size 290 KB, 81 script tags
1 render-blocking script in <head>: /_next/static/chunks/03~yq9q893hmn.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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