Developer tools: how AI-ready are the leaders?
Platforms developers ask coding assistants about every day. We ran the LLMready crawler against each homepage and scored it the same way as a free audit.
82/100
Median (all industries: 77)
75%
Publish an llms.txt
92%
Allow all 4 core AI crawlers
83%
Use Schema.org JSON-LD
Key findings
- Netlify leads with 89/100 (B+); DigitalOcean trails at 69.
- The developer tools median is 5 points above the median of all 102 sites we measured.
- 0 of 12 block at least one core AI crawler (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot or Google-Extended) in robots.txt.
- 75% publish an llms.txt and 42% an llms-full.txt.
- Weakest category on average: citation readiness at 68/100.
Bot access
88
Content extractability
79
Semantic metadata
91
Citation readiness
68
Scores
Leaderboard
| # | Site | Score | Bot access | Extractability | Metadata | Citation | Core bots | llms.txt | Biggest gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 Netlifynetlify.com | 89 B+ | 94 | 87 | 97 | 77 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 2 | 87 Supabasesupabase.com | 87 B+ | 100 | 84 | 100 | 64 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 3 | 86 Postmanpostman.com | 86 B | 100 | 82 | 91 | 70 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 4 | 86 Renderrender.com | 86 B | 96 | 82 | 97 | 70 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 5 | 83 Dockerdocker.com | 83 B | 76 | 84 | 100 | 78 | llms.txt is present and valid | ||
| 6 | 82 Sentrysentry.io | 82 B- | 90 | 82 | 96 | 62 | Answer-ready formats | ||
| 7 | 81 GitLabgitlab.com | 81 B- | 76 | 82 | 100 | 69 | llms.txt is present and valid | ||
| 8 | 81 Vercelvercel.com | 81 B- | 90 | 72 | 95 | 68 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 9 | 78 GitHubgithub.com | 78 C+ | 100 | 77 | 65 | 63 | Schema.org JSON-LD | ||
| 10 | 78 MongoDBmongodb.com | 78 C+ | 90 | 62 | 92 | 70 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 11 | 77 Railwayrailway.app | 77 C+ | 64 | 84 | 100 | 66 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 12 | 69 DigitalOceandigitalocean.com | 69 D | 76 | 75 | 57 | 64 | llms.txt is present and valid |
Most common gaps
Where developer tools sites lose points
Answer-ready formats
100%12 of 12 sites · Citation readiness
Add an FAQ section (with FAQPage schema) and question-style headings that mirror real queries.
Authorship and freshness
100%12 of 12 sites · Citation readiness
Show an author and published/updated dates (in markup and JSON-LD).
Content density
100%12 of 12 sites · Content extractability
Trim inline scripts, styles and markup bloat so text makes up a larger share of the page.
Markdown readability
67%8 of 12 sites · Content extractability
Shorten sentences and replace jargon; aim for a reading ease of 50+.
llms-full.txt is available
58%7 of 12 sites · Bot access
Publish the generated llms-full.txt alongside llms.txt.
llms.txt is present and valid
58%7 of 12 sites · Bot access
Fix the validation issues below or regenerate the file with LLMready.
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A high score means AI engines can reach, read and understand a site. It doesn't guarantee citations — those also depend on authority, relevance and the question being asked.