llms.txt present
What the check finds
The state of llms.txt and its variants. Reported for completeness only, the AI crawlers do not fetch this file, and no major provider has committed to reading it.
Why it matters for AI answers
llms.txt is a proposed summary file for language models. AI crawlers do not fetch it and no major provider has committed to reading it, so it has no known effect on AI answers today.
How to fix it
- Treat llms.txt as optional, it is not a substitute for crawlable pages.
- Put effort into robots.txt, a sitemap and readable HTML first.
- If publishing one, place it at /llms.txt as Markdown with short links to key pages.
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