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AI readiness of Signpost: 85/100

85/100

We checked signpost.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 Trades software

signpost.com ranks 35 of 43 trades software sites in this scan (ties share the order by domain name). The median score in this group is 85. 22 of 43 have an llms.txt file.

Findings with evidence

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.

ImproveOpen Graph: missing og:image

og:title: SignpostAI | Your Back Office. Handled.
og:description: Get more leads, book more jobs, and collect faster payment with AI + Live coverage. From …
og:image: missing

Fix: Add <meta property="og:image" content="...">. Chat apps and AI tools use these for link previews.

ImproveNo canonical link

No <link rel="canonical"> in <head>.

Fix: Add <link rel="canonical" href="https://signpost.com/"> so crawlers know which URL to cite.

FixServer responded in 2168 ms

Time to response headers from our checker, after 1 redirect. Final URL: https://www.signpost.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: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Matching rule: "allow: /" in group "*".

PassJSON-LD: 1 block, types WebPage, Organization, ImageObject, ContactPoint

Every typed block has its required properties.

PassTitle, 39 characters

<title>SignpostAI | Your Back Office. Handled.</title>

PassMeta description, 145 characters

content="Get more leads, book more jobs, and collect faster payment with AI + Live coverage. From first call to final invoice — SignpostAI handles it all."

PassLanguage declared: en

<html lang="en">

Pass1 H1 heading

<h1>From first search to final payment.</h1>

Pass5,582 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "SignpostAI | Your Back Office. Handled. Looking for Surefire Local Products ? You’re in the right place! Use your same login credentials above. For extra Suppo…"

PassSitemap found, 440 URLs

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://www.signpost.com/sitemap.xml
GET https://www.signpost.com/sitemap.xml returned 200.

PassHTML size 77 KB, 12 script tags

1 render-blocking script in <head>: https://api.consentpro.com/v2/cdn/runtime/69ea38c91408fe1369877cd1.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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