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Food & drink AI readiness statistics

In November 2026, we could only place a site in an industry where our scanner could read the page, so this page covers Food & drink sites we could read 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.

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How Food & drink 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.

An industry is only known for a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the Food & drink 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 0%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 0%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers0%
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 Food & drink sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Semantic HTML landmarks” (84%, against 53% of all sites); “Analytics is installed” (87%, against 61% of all sites); “This page declares its canonical URL” (82%, against 64% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Food & drink site we could read passed.

Every check, Food & drink 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 Food & drink sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 89% 88% +1 point
No mixed (insecure) content 100% 99% +1 point
Core security headers are set 13% 15% −2 points
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 87% 90% −3 points
security.txt is published 8% 6% +2 points
Reached without a redirect chain 100% 98% +2 points
Caching or validation headers are set 87% 92% −5 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 84% 86% −2 points
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 87% 79% +8 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 97% 99% −2 points
This page declares its canonical URL 82% 64% +18 points
Mobile viewport is set 92% 85% +7 points
Has a title tag 100% 99% +1 point
Title fits a search snippet 45% 42% +3 points
Has a meta description 92% 82% +10 points
Description fits a search snippet 59% 55% +4 points
The page has an H1 66% 63% +3 points
Logical heading order 66% 60% +6 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 42% 47% −5 points
Images have descriptive alt text 89% 82% +7 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 100% 97% +3 points
Open Graph tags for sharing 61% 48% +13 points
Twitter/X card tags 68% 62% +6 points
XML sitemap is present and referenced 68% 60% +8 points
Missing pages return a real 404 84% 85% −1 point
Images are optimised 32% 22% +10 points
Language and charset declared 95% 94% +1 point
hreflang for language variants — 99% —
Analytics is installed 87% 61% +26 points
Search Console / Bing verification 63% 68% −5 points
A favicon is set 95% 89% +6 points
No meta-refresh redirect 100% 99% +1 point
Your content survives without JavaScript 97% 89% +8 points
Your answer is in the HTML 92% 86% +6 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 47% 50% −3 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 84% 53% +31 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 89% 78% +11 points
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources — 51% —
Section headings are phrased as questions — 22% —
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 74% 84% −10 points
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% 100% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed — 57% —
The links in llms.txt resolve — 93% —
Author / publisher is clear 29% 38% −9 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 11% 13% −2 points
llms.txt is present and valid 21% 15% +6 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 11% 9% +2 points
Structured data is present 58% 45% +13 points
Structured data is valid — 97% —
FAQ / Q&A schema — 36% —
Organization schema with sameAs 18% 16% +2 points
Right schema type for the page — 69% —
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 53% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 13% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 92% 83% +9 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 100% 99% +1 point
Your page arrives quickly 89% 94% −5 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 21% 19% +2 points
Content usage preferences declared 0% 5% −5 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 0% 2% −2 points
No broken links 92% 89% +3 points
Links don't point at redirects 77% 85% −8 points
Descriptive anchor text 100% >99% Level
Sensible internal/external link mix 89% 88% +1 point
Links are real links 75% 81% −6 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 6% 2% +4 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 8% 4% +4 points
OAuth protected-resource metadata 8% 4% +4 points
OpenID Connect discovery 8% 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 0% <1% Level

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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