Discovery platforms benchmark

The same reproducible checks, run each month on every platform's public pages, this site included.

Version 1.0 · measured Nov 4, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · S Dagrang, Verge Heights

Method

  1. AI-Readiness: the platform's home page, scored with the open formula.
  2. Followed outbound links: on one listing page found from the home page, the links to other sites that carry none of nofollow · ugc · sponsored.
  3. AI crawlers allowed: robots.txt and a real AI-crawler request both let them in.
  4. Reads without JavaScript: the listing page shows 400 or more characters of text before any script runs.
  5. Listing JSON-LD: the listing page carries valid structured data.

One run a month, the same fetches for every platform, done by WePushBot, which follows robots.txt.

Machine-readable results · The AI-Readiness Standard · How we differ

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