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Ghost AI readiness statistics

In November 2026, we could only tell which sites run on Ghost where our scanner could read the page, so this page covers those sites and says nothing about how many turned our scanner away.

Updated 11:07 UTC · November 2026

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

All sites on the State of the Web

How Ghost sites land

Every page we read gets a score out of 100, the number at the top of its report (how scoring works). Each row is a range of scores. Where too few sites score in the lowest ranges, they are joined into one row.

Not enough sites yet There are not enough sites yet to split them by score.

A platform is only detectable on a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the Ghost sites we could read.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

Better or worse

Not enough history yet.

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

AI access

  • robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers 14%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 0%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers14%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers0%

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

What Ghost sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Author / publisher is clear” (94%, against 38% of all sites); “Structured data is present” (97%, against 45% of all sites); “A machine-readable published / updated date” (56%, against 13% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Ghost site we could read passed.

Every check, Ghost against all sites

Share of sites that pass each check, over the sites the check applies to. The Gap column is the difference in percentage points between the two shares; a dash means not enough sites yet.

Check Ghost sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 97% 88% +9 points
No mixed (insecure) content 100% 99% +1 point
Core security headers are set 8% 15% −7 points
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 67% 90% −23 points
security.txt is published 6% 6% Level
Reached without a redirect chain 100% 98% +2 points
Caching or validation headers are set 97% 92% +5 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 89% 86% +3 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 97% 79% +18 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 100% 99% +1 point
This page declares its canonical URL 92% 64% +28 points
Mobile viewport is set 100% 85% +15 points
Has a title tag 100% 99% +1 point
Title fits a search snippet 44% 42% +2 points
Has a meta description 97% 82% +15 points
Description fits a search snippet 76% 55% +21 points
The page has an H1 56% 63% −7 points
Logical heading order 72% 60% +12 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 42% 47% −5 points
Images have descriptive alt text 97% 82% +15 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 100% 97% +3 points
Open Graph tags for sharing 78% 48% +30 points
Twitter/X card tags 83% 62% +21 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 92% 60% +32 points
Missing pages return a real 404 94% 85% +9 points
Images are optimised 14% 22% −8 points
Language and charset declared 97% 94% +3 points
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 75% 61% +14 points
Search Console / Bing verification 83% 68% +15 points
A favicon is set 97% 89% +8 points
No meta-refresh redirect 100% 99% +1 point
Your content survives without JavaScript 100% 89% +11 points
Your answer is in the HTML 97% 86% +11 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 50% 50% Level
Semantic HTML landmarks 86% 53% +33 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 97% 78% +19 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 29% 51% −22 points
Section headings are phrased as questions — 22% —
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 82% 84% −2 points
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% 100% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed 94% 57% +37 points
The links in llms.txt resolve — 93% —
Author / publisher is clear 94% 38% +56 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 56% 13% +43 points
llms.txt is present and valid 36% 15% +21 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 0% 9% −9 points
Structured data is present 97% 45% +52 points
Structured data is valid 100% 97% +3 points
FAQ / Q&A schema — 36% —
Organization schema with sameAs 14% 16% −2 points
Right schema type for the page 27% 69% −42 points
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 53% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 13% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 86% 83% +3 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 97% 94% +3 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 22% 19% +3 points
Content usage preferences declared 8% 5% +3 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 3% 2% +1 point
No broken links 89% 89% Level
Links don't point at redirects 77% 85% −8 points
Descriptive anchor text 100% >99% Level
Sensible internal/external link mix 100% 88% +12 points
Links are real links 74% 81% −7 points
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) — — —
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — — —
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — — —
Page weight and render-blocking — — —
MCP Server Card 0% 1% −1 point
AI catalog 0% 1% −1 point
A2A Agent Card 0% 1% −1 point
WebMCP tools in the page 0% 2% −2 points
AI usage preferences (Content-Usage) 0% <1% Level
Licensing terms for AI (RSL) 0% <1% Level
Text-and-data-mining reservation (TDMRep) 0% <1% Level
Markdown version linked from the page 0% 1% −1 point
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 0% 1% −1 point
API catalog 0% 1% −1 point
OAuth authorization-server metadata 0% 4% −4 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 0% 4% −4 points
OpenID Connect discovery 0% 4% −4 points
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — — —
Auth.md agent registration 0% 1% −1 point
AI discovery via DNS 3% <1% +3 points

Based on the sites Bot Appétit has scanned. Most of these sites come from lists we scan for research. Not a random sample of the web.

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