geolintv0.4.0AI-search readiness audit
https://news.ycombinator.com/
HTTP 200text/htmlTTFB 321mstotal 1.0srobots.txt 200llms.txt 4042026-09-17 12:55 UTC
Grade A
0 errors·5 warnings·9 hints
38/52 checks passed

Categories

AI Crawler Access
98
1 hint
llms.txt
90
1 warning · 2 hints
Structured Data
90
1 warning · 2 hints
Citability
84
2 warnings · 2 hints
Technical Foundation
90
1 warning · 2 hints

AI crawler access 51/51 allowed

BotPurposerobots.txtAccess
OpenAI
GPTBottraininghonored✓ allowed
OAI-SearchBotsearchhonored✓ allowed
ChatGPT-Useruser-fetchmay bypass✓ allowed
OAI-AdsBotmixedhonored✓ allowed
Anthropic
ClaudeBottraininghonored✓ allowed
Claude-Useruser-fetchhonored✓ allowed
Claude-SearchBotsearchhonored✓ allowed
anthropic-airetiredtrainingunverified✓ allowed
Claude-Webretiredsearchunverified✓ allowed
Perplexity
PerplexityBotsearchhonored✓ allowed
Perplexity-Useruser-fetchmay bypass✓ allowed
Google
Googlebotsearchhonored✓ allowed
Google-Extendedopt-outtraininghonored✓ allowed
Apple
Applebotsearchhonored✓ allowed
Applebot-Extendedopt-outtraininghonored✓ allowed
Meta
Meta-ExternalAgentmeta-externalagenttraininghonored✓ allowed
Meta-WebIndexersearchhonored✓ allowed
Meta-ExternalFetcheruser-fetchmay bypass✓ allowed
facebookexternalhituser-fetchunverified✓ allowed
FacebookBotretiredtrainingunverified✓ allowed
Amazon
Amazonbotmixedhonored✓ allowed
Amzn-SearchBotsearchhonored✓ allowed
Amzn-Useruser-fetchhonored✓ allowed
Mistral AI
MistralAI-Useruser-fetchunverified✓ allowed
MistralAI-Indexsearchunverified✓ allowed
MistralAI-Trainingtrainingunverified✓ allowed
Microsoft
Bingbotsearchhonored✓ allowed
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckBotsearchhonored✓ allowed
DuckAssistBotuser-fetchhonored✓ allowed
You.com
YouBotsearchhonored✓ allowed
Moonshot AI
KimiBottrainingunverified✓ allowed
Kimi-Useruser-fetchunverified✓ allowed
Alibaba
TongyiBotmixedunverified✓ allowed
Exa
ExaBotsearchunverified✓ allowed
Tavily
TavilyBotsearchunverified✓ allowed
Timpi
Timpibotsearchunverified✓ allowed
ByteDance
Bytespidermixedunverified✓ allowed
Common Crawl
CCBottraininghonored✓ allowed
Cohere
cohere-aiuser-fetchunverified✓ allowed
cohere-training-data-crawlertrainingunverified✓ allowed
Diffbot
Diffbotmixedhonored✓ allowed
Webz.io
Omgilibotomgilibotretiredtraininghonored✓ allowed
webziotraininghonored✓ allowed
Webzio-Extendedopt-outtraininghonored✓ allowed
The Hive
ImagesiftBottraininghonored✓ allowed
Huawei
PanguBottrainingunverified✓ allowed
Kangaroo LLM
Kangaroo Bottrainingunverified✓ allowed
Allen Institute for AI
AI2Bottraininghonored✓ allowed
Ai2Bot-Dolmatraininghonored✓ allowed
NICT
ICC-Crawlertrainingunverified✓ allowed
Velen
VelenPublicWebCrawlertrainingunverified✓ allowed

Findings

⚠Warnings 5
⚠ warningllms-txt/missingllms.txt
llms.txt present

No llms.txt found

GET https://news.ycombinator.com/llms.txt returned HTTP 404.

FixCreate /llms.txt at the site root: an H1 title, a short blockquote summary, and ## sections linking to your key content.

https://news.ycombinator.com/llms.txt → HTTP 404
⚠ warningschema/no-jsonldStructured Data
JSON-LD structured data present

No JSON-LD structured data on the page

AI engines use schema.org markup to identify entities, dates, authors and page types. Without it they fall back to unreliable inference.

FixAdd JSON-LD blocks describing the page (Article, Organization, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage as appropriate).

⚠ warningcontent/no-h1Citability
Single descriptive H1

No <h1> on the page

The H1 anchors how machines understand and index the page topic.

FixAdd one descriptive <h1> that states what the page is about.

⚠ warningcontent/missing-datesCitability
Visible publication/modified date

No machine-readable publication or modified date found

Checked <time datetime>, article:* meta tags and JSON-LD datePublished/dateModified — none present.

FixExpose a date via <time datetime="…">, article:published_time meta or JSON-LD datePublished/dateModified.

⚠ warningtechnical/sitemap-missingTechnical Foundation
XML sitemap discoverable

No sitemap discoverable

No Sitemap directive in robots.txt and /sitemap.xml does not resolve.

FixPublish an XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml and declare it in robots.txt ("Sitemap: https://…/sitemap.xml").

https://news.ycombinator.com/sitemap.xml → HTTP 404
ℹHints 9
ℹ hintai-crawler/crawl-delayAI Crawler Access
No crawl-delay slowing AI crawlers

Crawl-delay of 30s applies to every AI crawler

The delay is set on the "User-agent: *" group, so it throttles all AI bots without a more specific group.

FixRemove the Crawl-delay or exempt AI search bots with their own groups if you want your content indexed promptly.

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30
ℹ hintllms-txt/llms-full-missingllms.txt
llms-full.txt companion file

No llms-full.txt found

GET https://news.ycombinator.com/llms-full.txt returned HTTP 404. The optional full-content companion is absent.

FixConsider publishing /llms-full.txt with your key documentation inlined as markdown.

https://news.ycombinator.com/llms-full.txt → HTTP 404
ℹ hintllms-txt/ai-manifestllms.txt
Emerging AI manifest files (agents.json, ai.txt)

No emerging AI manifest files found

Checked /agents.json, /ai.txt, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json — all absent. These conventions are early and entirely optional.

FixPrioritize /llms.txt; add agents.json or ai.txt only if they fit your AI distribution strategy.

ℹ hintschema/no-organizationStructured Data
Organization schema present

No Organization schema found

Without entity grounding, engines cannot connect this site to a known organization — weaker trust signals for citation.

FixAdd an Organization JSON-LD block (name, url, logo, sameAs links) at least on the homepage.

ℹ hintschema/no-breadcrumbStructured Data
BreadcrumbList schema present

No BreadcrumbList schema found

Breadcrumbs expose site structure to machines; without them a page floats without context.

FixAdd BreadcrumbList JSON-LD matching the visible breadcrumb trail.

ℹ hintcontent/no-question-headingsCitability
Question-shaped headings

No question-shaped headings (h2/h3 ending in "?")

Question headings map directly onto user prompts and make sections self-contained citable answers.

FixRewrite a few section headings as the actual questions your audience asks.

ℹ hintcontent/no-authorCitability
Author attribution

No author attribution found

No meta[name=author], rel=author, JSON-LD author or author/byline markup — the content looks anonymous.

FixAttribute the content: an author byline, meta[name=author] or a Person in JSON-LD author.

ℹ hinttechnical/canonicalTechnical Foundation
Canonical link sanity

No canonical link element

Without a canonical, engines pick one themselves — and may consolidate onto the wrong URL.

FixAdd <link rel="canonical" href="…"> pointing at the preferred URL for this page.

ℹ hinttechnical/meta-descriptionTechnical Foundation
Meta description present

No meta description

A 1–2 sentence description gives answer engines a clean, pre-written summary of the page.

FixWrite a meta[name=description] of ~50–160 characters summarizing the page.