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Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers


An ongoing study of 531 website audits: how often businesses are named by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and which AI-readiness signals turn up on their own sites.

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