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AI readiness of semrush.com: 100/100

100/100

We checked semrush.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.

TestResultPoints
llms.txtYes15 of 15
JSON-LD schema on the homepageYes20 of 20
Meta descriptionYes10 of 10
Text readable without JavaScriptYes20 of 20
SitemapYes10 of 10
AI crawlers allowed in robots.txt8 of 825 of 25

Compared with SEO tools

semrush.com ranks 2 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

FixServer responded in 2047 ms

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

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

ImproveHTML size 190 KB, 52 script tags

7 render-blocking scripts in <head>: /__static__/webpack/runtime.91c50824ad2b217e.js

Fix: Add defer or async to scripts in <head> that are not needed for first paint.

19 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/*?img=*
Disallow: /archive/graphs.php
Disallow: /forrester-marketing-silos/*
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /blog/search/*
(82 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

Passllms.txt found and well formed

First line: "# Semrush". 9 ## sections, 42 links, 14948 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, PostalAddress

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassTitle, 59 characters

<title>Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility</title>

PassMeta description, 114 characters

content="Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
og:description: Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SE…
og:image: https://www.semrush.com/__static__/semrush-logo-700.43215feb8faa.jpg

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>Be found and chosen everywhere search happens</h1>

Pass8,497 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility Skip to content Your browser or operating system is out of date and Semrush might not be displayed …"

PassSitemap found, 23 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.semrush.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.semrush.com/sitemap.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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