AI Readiness Report

rakuten.co.jp

How visible rakuten.co.jp is to AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, based on a technical scan of crawler access, structured data, and citation signals.

Summary

rakuten.co.jp has an AI Readiness score of 35/100, placing it at Maturity Level 1: Discoverable. The site was scanned on April 27, 2026 across 7 technical signals that influence whether AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude can discover, parse, and cite content from rakuten.co.jp.

35
out of 100

Maturity Level 1

Discoverable

Based on 35 out of 100 points across 7 technical signals that influence whether AI engines can discover, parse, and cite rakuten.co.jp.

Final URL: https://www.rakuten.co.jp/ Scanned: 2026-04-27 Tranco rank: #580

Signal breakdown

AI crawlers allowed

20/20 pts

robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.

llms.txt present

0/10 pts

No /llms.txt file. AI engines have no curated guide to the site's purpose and key pages.

Fix: Publish /llms.txt with a short site description and links to your most important pages.

Organization schema

15/15 pts

JSON-LD Organization or LocalBusiness markup is present on the homepage.

N/A

Article schema

0/15 pts

No content page (blog/article/news) was detectable on the site to evaluate.

FAQPage schema

0/15 pts

No FAQPage schema detected on homepage, content pages, or /faq endpoints.

Fix: Add a FAQ section with FAQPage JSON-LD. This is one of the most AI-cited schema types.

N/A

Author Person schema

0/10 pts

No content page was detectable on the site to evaluate.

Sitemap in robots.txt

0/15 pts

robots.txt has no Sitemap: directive. Crawlers must guess the sitemap location.

Fix: Add a Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml line to robots.txt.

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Frequently asked questions

What is rakuten.co.jp's AI Readiness score?

rakuten.co.jp scored 35 out of 100 on the Appearly AI Readiness scan, placing it at Maturity Level 1 (Discoverable).

Does rakuten.co.jp have ai crawlers allowed?

Yes. robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.

Does rakuten.co.jp have llms.txt present?

No. No /llms.txt file. AI engines have no curated guide to the site's purpose and key pages. Publish /llms.txt with a short site description and links to your most important pages.

Does rakuten.co.jp have organization schema?

Yes. JSON-LD Organization or LocalBusiness markup is present on the homepage.

Does rakuten.co.jp have article schema?

No content page (blog/article/news) was detectable on the site to evaluate.

Does rakuten.co.jp have faqpage schema?

No. No FAQPage schema detected on homepage, content pages, or /faq endpoints. Add a FAQ section with FAQPage JSON-LD. This is one of the most AI-cited schema types.

Does rakuten.co.jp have author person schema?

No content page was detectable on the site to evaluate.

Does rakuten.co.jp have sitemap in robots.txt?

No. robots.txt has no Sitemap: directive. Crawlers must guess the sitemap location. Add a Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml line to robots.txt.

Methodology & sources

Appearly scans up to 8 pages per domain (homepage, robots.txt, /llms.txt, sitemap, and a discovered content page) to evaluate 7 signals weighted from 10 to 20 points each. The maturity model maps total score to one of 5 levels: Invisible (0), Discoverable (1), Indexable (2), Retrievable (3), Cited (4).

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Published:  ·  Last updated:  ·  Publisher: Appearly (AI Visibility Platform)