
Google Says You Don't Need llms.txt. Here's the Catch.
Google says llms.txt is unnecessary. Chrome Lighthouse audits it anyway. We fact-checked five studies on what llms.txt really does for AI visibility in 2026.
Also known as: AI Readiness Benchmarks, Industry AI Visibility Distribution, Anonymized AI Search Benchmarks
Anonymized score distributions by industry, auto-refreshed hourly via Next.js ISR (stale-while-revalidate) from real Radar platform audits. Public pages show only rank, industry, score, and grade. The page distinguishes raw audited domains (every domain that has run a Radar audit) from surfaced domains (those in industries meeting the 3-domain threshold). Recently-audited domains in micro-categories sit invisible until peers join them. Domain and brand identifiers are never fetched or rendered. Users benchmark where their domain would rank against industry peers without exposing any site identity, same approach as Glassdoor salary bands.
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Google says llms.txt is unnecessary. Chrome Lighthouse audits it anyway. We fact-checked five studies on what llms.txt really does for AI visibility in 2026.

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