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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.
| 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 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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