AI crawlers allowed
20/20 pts
robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
AI Readiness Report
How visible rakuten.com 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.com has an AI Readiness score of 60/100, placing it at Maturity Level 3: Retrievable. 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.com.
Maturity Level 3
Based on 60 out of 100 points across 7 technical signals that influence whether AI engines can discover, parse, and cite rakuten.com.
Content-level signals were checked on: https://www.rakuten.com/blog/cyber-monday-hour-by-hour/
20/20 pts
robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
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.
0/15 pts
Homepage lacks JSON-LD Organization markup. AI engines cannot identify the entity behind the site.
Fix: Add JSON-LD Organization with name, url, logo, and sameAs links to social profiles.
15/15 pts
Article, BlogPosting, or NewsArticle markup is present on content pages.
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.
10/10 pts
JSON-LD Person schema with sameAs or url to verifiable identity is present.
15/15 pts
A Sitemap: directive in robots.txt points to the sitemap.xml file.
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Maturity model →
The 5-level framework behind this score.
2026 report →
How rakuten.com compares to the top 500.
rakuten.com scored 60 out of 100 on the Appearly AI Readiness scan, placing it at Maturity Level 3 (Retrievable).
Yes. robots.txt allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.
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.
No. Homepage lacks JSON-LD Organization markup. AI engines cannot identify the entity behind the site. Add JSON-LD Organization with name, url, logo, and sameAs links to social profiles.
Yes. Article, BlogPosting, or NewsArticle markup is present on content pages.
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.
Yes. JSON-LD Person schema with sameAs or url to verifiable identity is present.
Yes. A Sitemap: directive in robots.txt points to the sitemap.xml file.
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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