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I scanned 1,902 local-business websites for AI readiness. One in four already has an llms.txt.

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I build a tool that checks whether AI answer engines can read a website. On 12 October I pointed it at 1,902 ordinary local-business sites in the USA and UK: dentists, plumbers, hairdressers, vets, gyms, estate agents and five other trades, in twenty big cities. 1,355 of them could be read and scor…

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  1. 2026-10-12 17:43 · DEV Community — AI
    I scanned 1,902 local-business websites for AI readiness. One in four already has an llms.txt.

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