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Software & SaaS 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 Software & SaaS 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 Software & SaaS 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.

  • 91–100 30%
  • 81–90 30%
  • 71–80 23%
  • 0–70 17%
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ScoreShare of sites
91–10030%
81–9030%
71–8023%
0–7017%

An industry is only known for a page our scanner could read, so these shares are of the Software & SaaS 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 7%
  • robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers 1%
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What we foundShare of sites
robots.txt disallows some AI crawlers7%
robots.txt disallows major AI crawlers1%

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 Software & SaaS sites get right and wrong

Passed more often than on the average site: “Claims come with figures, quotes or sources” (67%, against 51% of all sites); “Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description” (60%, against 47% of all sites); “Buttons, links and fields have names” (60%, against 50% of all sites). Least often passed: several checks that no Software & SaaS site we could read passed.

Every check, Software & SaaS 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 Software & SaaS sites All sites Gap (points)
Served over a secure HTTPS connection 100% >99% Level
HTTP redirects to HTTPS 90% 88% +2 points
No mixed (insecure) content 100% 99% +1 point
Core security headers are set 20% 15% +5 points
Not flagged for malware or phishing 100% 100% Level
No server version leakage 97% 90% +7 points
security.txt is published 9% 6% +3 points
Reached without a redirect chain 99% 98% +1 point
Caching or validation headers are set 97% 92% +5 points
The site settles on one host (www vs non-www) 87% 86% +1 point
robots.txt is present and not over-blocking 69% 79% −10 points
Not accidentally set to noindex 99% 99% Level
This page declares its canonical URL 59% 64% −5 points
Mobile viewport is set 83% 85% −2 points
Has a title tag 99% 99% Level
Title fits a search snippet 42% 42% Level
Has a meta description 79% 82% −3 points
Description fits a search snippet 56% 55% +1 point
The page has an H1 70% 63% +7 points
Logical heading order 56% 60% −4 points
Topic is consistent across title, H1 and description 60% 47% +13 points
Images have descriptive alt text 86% 82% +4 points
Your page's HTML isn't oversized 97% 97% Level
Open Graph tags for sharing 47% 48% −1 point
Twitter/X card tags 63% 62% +1 point
XML sitemap is present and referenced 53% 60% −7 points
Missing pages return a real 404 84% 85% −1 point
Images are optimised 20% 22% −2 points
Language and charset declared 93% 94% −1 point
hreflang for language variants 97% 99% −2 points
Analytics is installed 48% 61% −13 points
Search Console / Bing verification 70% 68% +2 points
A favicon is set 92% 89% +3 points
No meta-refresh redirect 99% 99% Level
Your content survives without JavaScript 86% 89% −3 points
Your answer is in the HTML 84% 86% −2 points
Buttons, links and fields have names 60% 50% +10 points
Semantic HTML landmarks 55% 53% +2 points
Content is scannable in self-contained chunks 77% 78% −1 point
Claims come with figures, quotes or sources 67% 51% +16 points
Section headings are phrased as questions 31% 22% +9 points
Reading the page is affordable for a machine 91% 84% +7 points
No hidden text written for an AI model 100% 100% Level
Sitemap dates tell a machine what changed 44% 57% −13 points
The links in llms.txt resolve — 93% —
Author / publisher is clear 41% 38% +3 points
A machine-readable published / updated date 7% 13% −6 points
llms.txt is present and valid 23% 15% +8 points
Clean content for agents (Markdown) 18% 9% +9 points
Structured data is present 46% 45% +1 point
Structured data is valid 100% 97% +3 points
FAQ / Q&A schema 42% 36% +6 points
Organization schema with sameAs 17% 16% +1 point
Right schema type for the page 67% 69% −2 points
Schema facts also appear in the page text — 53% —
Breadcrumb structured data — 13% —
AI crawlers aren't blocked 88% 83% +5 points
Automated visitors can reach your pages — — —
Engines are allowed to quote the page 99% 99% Level
Your page arrives quickly 99% 94% +5 points
AI bot rules are explicit and intentional 11% 19% −8 points
Content usage preferences declared 10% 5% +5 points
Resource-discovery Link headers 6% 2% +4 points
No broken links 89% 89% Level
Links don't point at redirects 86% 85% +1 point
Descriptive anchor text 99% >99% −1 point
Sensible internal/external link mix 93% 88% +5 points
Links are real links 88% 81% +7 points
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) — — —
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — — —
Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — — —
Page weight and render-blocking — — —
MCP Server Card 4% 1% +3 points
AI catalog 2% 1% +1 point
A2A Agent Card 1% 1% Level
WebMCP tools in the page 1% 2% −1 point
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 2% 1% +1 point
Content signals agree everywhere — — —
Agent Skills index 4% 1% +3 points
API catalog 3% 1% +2 points
OAuth authorization-server metadata 4% 4% Level
OAuth protected-resource metadata 2% 4% −2 points
OpenID Connect discovery 3% 4% −1 point
Web Bot Auth (operates a signed bot) 0% <1% Level
Universal Commerce Protocol manifest — — —
Auth.md agent registration 1% 1% Level
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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