AI readiness of stripe.com: 100/100

100/100

We checked stripe.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

stripe.com ranks 10 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

ImproveJSON-LD: 1 block, types WebSite, Organization, Person, ImageObject, ContactPoint, Place, PostalAddress

Person is missing recommended url.

Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.

Improve2 H1 headings

<h1>Financial infrastructure to grow your revenue. Accept payments, handle business banking, 1 and impl…</h1>
<h1>Financial infrastructure to grow your revenue. Accept payments, handle business banking, 1 and impl…</h1>

Fix: Use one <h1> that states the main topic of the page.

ImproveServer responded in 894 ms

Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://stripe.com/

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

ImproveHTML size 643 KB, 85 script tags

0 render-blocking scripts in <head>

Fix: Large HTML slows crawlers and tools with size limits. Move inline data and scripts out of the HTML.

17 checks passed or noted

PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

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

User-agent: *
Allow: /docs
Allow: /docs$
Disallow: /bitcoin/refund
Disallow: /sources/refund
Disallow: /sources/sepa_mandate
(5 more lines)
Group "*" has no rule for /.

Passllms.txt found and well formed

First line: "# Stripe". 31 ## sections, 308 links, 69878 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.

PassTitle, 54 characters

<title>Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue</title>

PassMeta description, 149 characters

content="Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement."

PassOpen Graph tags present

og:title: Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue
og:description: Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payment…
og:image: https://b.stripecdn.com/mkt-ssr-statics/assets/_next/static/media/stripe.37119086.jpg

PassCanonical link set

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

PassLanguage declared: en-US

<html lang="en-US">

Pass13,181 characters of text without JavaScript

Text starts: "Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue Products Solutions Developers Resources Pricing Sign in See all products Explore our full product catalo…"

PassSitemap found, 9 child sitemaps

robots.txt: Sitemap: https://stripe.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml
GET https://stripe.com/sitemap/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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