What is AI Readiness?

The composite 0–100 score that quantifies how prepared your website is for AI crawlers and LLM pipelines.

Definition

AI Readiness is SEODiff's headline score. It is a weighted composite of five measurable subscores that together predict whether AI systems can reliably access, understand, and cite your content.

How it's calculated

The AI Readiness Score uses a V2 weighted formula:

AI Readiness = 0.30 × BotAccess + 0.25 × Rendering + 0.20 × Structure + 0.15 × Schema + 0.10 × TechStack

Each subscore is on a 0–100 scale. The weights reflect real-world impact: if bots can't access your site, nothing else matters.

Hard caps (dealbreakers)

Both GPTBot and ClaudeBot blocked → score capped at 15, regardless of other subscores.
WAF / CAPTCHA challenge detected → score capped at 10.
HTTP failure (status 0 or ≥400) → raw score multiplied by 0.3.

Score interpretation

80–100: Excellent — your site is well-prepared for AI systems.
60–79: Good — some areas need improvement but fundamentals are solid.
40–59: Fair — significant gaps in AI accessibility.
20–39: Poor — most AI crawlers will struggle with your site.
0–19: Critical — likely blocked or completely unreadable by AI systems.

Why weights are structured this way

Bot Access has the highest weight (30%) because it's a gatekeeper: if crawlers are blocked, improvements to structure, schema, or rendering are invisible. Rendering (25%) is next because client-side rendering is the most common reason AI crawlers see empty pages. Structure, Schema, and Tech Stack follow in decreasing importance.