Website builders: how AI-ready are the leaders?
Platforms that decide how AI-ready millions of customer sites are by default. We ran the LLMready crawler against each homepage and scored it the same way as a free audit.
85/100
Median (all industries: 77)
70%
Publish an llms.txt
100%
Allow all 4 core AI crawlers
90%
Use Schema.org JSON-LD
Key findings
- Hostinger leads with 90/100 (A-); Bubble trails at 57.
- The website builders median is 8 points above the median of all 102 sites we measured.
- 0 of 10 block at least one core AI crawler (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot or Google-Extended) in robots.txt.
- 70% publish an llms.txt and 20% an llms-full.txt. 10% rely on JavaScript to render their main text.
- Weakest category on average: citation readiness at 66/100.
Bot access
88
Content extractability
75
Semantic metadata
89
Citation readiness
66
Scores
Leaderboard
| # | Site | Score | Bot access | Extractability | Metadata | Citation | Core bots | llms.txt | Biggest gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 Hostingerhostinger.com | 90 A- | 96 | 84 | 94 | 87 | Content density | ||
| 2 | 87 Shopifyshopify.com | 87 B+ | 100 | 84 | 92 | 70 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 3 | 86 Squarespacesquarespace.com | 86 B | 94 | 82 | 95 | 75 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 4 | 85 Webflowwebflow.com | 85 B | 90 | 73 | 97 | 80 | Markdown readability | ||
| 5 | 85 WordPress.comwordpress.com | 85 B | 90 | 82 | 100 | 69 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 6 | 84 Wixwix.com | 84 B | 90 | 79 | 100 | 67 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 7 | 83 Framerframer.com | 83 B | 94 | 79 | 92 | 66 | Authorship and freshness | ||
| 8 | 77 Ghostghost.org | 77 C+ | 76 | 86 | 96 | 55 | llms.txt is present and valid | ||
| 9 | 61 Carrdcarrd.co | 61 D | 70 | 74 | 44 | 49 | llms.txt is present and valid | ||
| 10 | 57 Bubblebubble.io | 57 F | 76 | 22 | 84 | 46 | Content is in the initial HTML |
Not scored because they turned away our crawler: GoDaddy (blocked automated requests (HTTP 403)), Lovable (blocked automated requests (HTTP 403)).
Most common gaps
Where website builders sites lose points
Answer-ready formats
100%10 of 10 sites · Citation readiness
Add an FAQ section (with FAQPage schema) and question-style headings that mirror real queries.
Authorship and freshness
100%10 of 10 sites · Citation readiness
Show an author and published/updated dates (in markup and JSON-LD).
Content density
100%10 of 10 sites · Content extractability
Trim inline scripts, styles and markup bloat so text makes up a larger share of the page.
llms-full.txt is available
80%8 of 10 sites · Bot access
Publish the generated llms-full.txt alongside llms.txt.
llms.txt is present and valid
70%7 of 10 sites · Bot access
Fix the validation issues below or regenerate the file with LLMready.
Lean HTML
60%6 of 10 sites · Citation readiness
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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.