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AI readiness of yoast.com: 100/100
100/100
We checked yoast.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
yoast.com ranks 6 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
FixHomepage serves a bot challenge page to automated clients
Our checker got a challenge page instead of your content: SEO for everyone • Yoast. Findings below describe that page, not your real homepage.
Fix: AI crawlers get the same challenge and cannot read your site. In your CDN or firewall (Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva), allow verified AI search bots, or lower the bot protection level on public pages.
ImproveJSON-LD: 1 block, types WebPage, ReadAction, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, PropertyValueSpecification, Organization, Brand, Person
Person is missing recommended url.
Fix: Fix the listed properties, then retest at validator.schema.org.
ImproveServer responded in 1017 ms
Time to response headers from our checker. Final URL: https://yoast.com/
Fix: Slow responses can make crawlers give up. Add page caching or a CDN in front of the homepage.
19 checks passed or noted
PassGPTBot (OpenAI, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassOAI-SearchBot (OpenAI, ChatGPT search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassChatGPT-User (OpenAI, live fetch for users): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassClaudeBot (Anthropic, training): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassClaude-SearchBot (Anthropic, Claude search): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassPerplexityBot (Perplexity, search index): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassGoogle-Extended (Google, Gemini training control): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
PassCCBot (Common Crawl, open dataset): allowed on /
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/ Group "*" has no rule for /.
Passllms.txt found and well formed
First line: "# Yoast SEO". 8 ## sections, 65 links, 7668 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, 30 characters
<title>SEO for everyone • Yoast</title>
PassMeta description, 136 characters
content="Yoast helps you with your website's search engine optimization, with our internationally loved software and our online SEO courses."
PassOpen Graph tags present
og:title: SEO for everyone og:description: Yoast helps you with your website's search engine optimization, with our internation… og:image: https://yoast.com/app/uploads/2026/05/yoast_og_2026.png
PassCanonical link set
<link rel="canonical" href="https://yoast.com/">
PassLanguage declared: en
<html lang="en">
Pass1 H1 heading
<h1>SEO starts with</h1>
Pass9,398 characters of text without JavaScript
Text starts: "SEO for everyone • Yoast Skip to content What are you looking for? Search Plans & pricing Yoast SEO: #1 WordPress SEO plugin Essential SEO tools for …"
PassSitemap found, 21 child sitemaps
robots.txt: Sitemap: https://yoast.com/sitemap_index.xml GET https://yoast.com/sitemap_index.xml returned 200.
PassHTML size 219 KB, 29 script tags
2 render-blocking scripts in <head>: https://cdn-4.convertexperiments.com/js/1004924-1004851.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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