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Your store refused our visits, including as AI agents. Real AI shopping agents are likely turned away too.
2 of 3 scored checks passed · Audited Sep 26, 2026, 6:45 PM
Fix these first
The changes that make the biggest difference for AI agents.
Firewall lets AI agents in
Your site refused every AI agent we tested, and our normal visit too. AI shopping agents are likely turned away.
Fix: In your CDN or firewall, allow verified AI agents: OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User and Claude-User. On Cloudflare, check Security > Bots and AI Crawl Control.
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Can AI agents reach your store?
Firewall lets AI agents in
Your site refused every AI agent we tested, and our normal visit too. AI shopping agents are likely turned away.
Firewall lets AI agents in
Your site refused every AI agent we tested, and our normal visit too. AI shopping agents are likely turned away.
Why it matters
Bot protection (Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome and others) often turns AI agents away even when robots.txt allows them. Then no AI can read your prices or stock. Real agents come from their companies' own IP addresses, so treat this as a strong signal, not proof.
What we found
- Normal visit (browser-like)
- Shown a bot challenge
- ChatGPT search
- Shown a bot challenge
- ChatGPT browsing for a user
- Shown a bot challenge
- Perplexity search
- Shown a bot challenge
- Perplexity answering a user
- Shown a bot challenge
- Claude fetching for a user
- Shown a bot challenge
How to fix
In your CDN or firewall, allow verified AI agents: OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User and Claude-User. On Cloudflare, check Security > Bots and AI Crawl Control.
AI search and assistants allowed in robots.txt
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity, Claude, Bing and Apple read your pages.
AI search and assistants allowed in robots.txt
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity, Claude, Bing and Apple read your pages.
Why it matters
AI shopping answers come from agents that read your pages when someone asks. A blocked agent cannot recommend what it cannot read.
What we found
- OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI)
- Allowed
- ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
- Allowed
- Googlebot (Google)
- Allowed
- Bingbot (Microsoft)
- Allowed
- PerplexityBot (Perplexity)
- Allowed
- Perplexity-User (Perplexity)
- Allowed
- Claude-SearchBot (Anthropic)
- Allowed
- Claude-User (Anthropic)
- Allowed
- Applebot (Apple)
- Allowed
AI training crawlers
not scoredTraining crawlers are allowed.
AI training crawlers
not scoredTraining crawlers are allowed.
Why it matters
Training crawlers collect data to build models. Blocking them is a reasonable choice and does not hide you from AI shopping answers, so it does not affect your score.
Fast, secure homepage
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Fast, secure homepage
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Why it matters
AI agents fetch pages while the shopper waits. Slow pages time out and get skipped.
Product data
Can AI understand your products?
Products described in structured data
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Products described in structured data
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Why it matters
Structured data is the machine-readable version of your product page. Agents rely on it for exact prices, stock and variants instead of guessing from text.
Price, stock and essentials complete
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Price, stock and essentials complete
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Why it matters
An agent comparing products needs the price, currency and stock status to recommend you. A missing brand or thin description makes you lose to a competitor with complete data.
Product identifiers (GTIN, MPN or SKU)
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Product identifiers (GTIN, MPN or SKU)
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Why it matters
Identifiers let agents match your product to the same item elsewhere, merge reviews, and compare prices with confidence.
Product details visible without JavaScript
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Product details visible without JavaScript
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Why it matters
Many AI agents read the raw HTML and do not run JavaScript. If your price is drawn by a script, they see a page without a price.
Ratings and reviews in structured data
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Ratings and reviews in structured data
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Why it matters
When a shopper asks for the best option, agents weigh ratings. Reviews that only render in a widget are invisible to most agents.
Shipping and returns in product data
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Shipping and returns in product data
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Why it matters
"Free delivery by Friday" and "30-day returns" decide many purchases. Agents can only promise them when the data says so.
Agentic commerce
Can AI shop your store?
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) profile
Published at /.well-known/ucp (version 2026-08-25). Agents can: Check out, Delivery options, Apply discounts, Build carts, Track orders, Search products, Look up products and Sign in the shopper.
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) profile
Published at /.well-known/ucp (version 2026-08-25). Agents can: Check out, Delivery options, Apply discounts, Build carts, Track orders, Search products, Look up products and Sign in the shopper.
Why it matters
UCP is the open standard from Google and Shopify that lets AI agents search your catalog, build a cart and check out directly, in Google AI Mode, Gemini and other agents.
What we found
- Check out
- dev.ucp.shopping.checkout
- Delivery options
- dev.ucp.shopping.fulfillment
- Apply discounts
- dev.ucp.shopping.discount
- Build carts
- dev.ucp.shopping.cart
- Track orders
- dev.ucp.shopping.order
- Search products
- dev.ucp.shopping.catalog.search
- Look up products
- dev.ucp.shopping.catalog.lookup
- catalog
- dev.shopify.catalog
- Sign in the shopper
- dev.ucp.common.identity_linking
ChatGPT Instant Checkout (ACP)
not scoredCan't be checked from outside: the Agentic Commerce Protocol uses a product feed you submit to OpenAI.
ChatGPT Instant Checkout (ACP)
not scoredCan't be checked from outside: the Agentic Commerce Protocol uses a product feed you submit to OpenAI.
Why it matters
OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol lets shoppers buy inside ChatGPT. Merchants apply through OpenAI and send a product feed.
Trust
Can AI trust your store?
Returns, shipping and contact pages linked
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Returns, shipping and contact pages linked
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Why it matters
Agents answer "can I return it?" and "how fast is delivery?" before recommending a store. Missing policies make you look riskier than a competitor.
Brand identity in structured data
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Brand identity in structured data
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Why it matters
Organization data tells agents who you are: name, logo and official social profiles. It helps them trust that your store is the real brand.
Discovery
Can AI find all your products?
Sitemap lists your products
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Sitemap lists your products
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Why it matters
Search and AI crawlers use your sitemap to discover every product, including new ones, instead of waiting to stumble on links.
llms.txt
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llms.txt
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Why it matters
llms.txt is a proposed plain-text guide to your site for AI tools. No major shopping agent has said it uses it, so it does not affect your score.
What this audit can and can't see
- Your site did not show us its homepage (HTTP 403), so most checks could not run.
- Firewall results come from our servers; real AI agents use their own verified addresses.
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