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30% -- sites accidentally blocking ai crawlers for audited business websites (2025)
30% of the 1,500 websites audited by Website AI Score were blocking AI crawlers by accident rather than by strategy.
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30%
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2025
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Website AI Score
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https://websiteaiscore.com/blog/website-ai-credit-score-explained ↗
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Your Website's AI Credit Score: Do You Know Yours?
Right now a potential customer is asking ChatGPT about a product you sell, and whether the AI names you, ignores you, or gets your offering wrong is not random. It's determined by a score your website already carries, a score most owners have never seen. We call it your Website AI Score: a credit sc…
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Website AI Score 1,500-site forensic audit (first-party research)
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audited business websites: 30% sites accidentally blocking ai crawlers. Source: Website AI Score (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/sites-blocking-ai-crawlers
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/sites-blocking-ai-crawlers" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>30%</strong> -- sites accidentally blocking ai crawlers for audited business websites<br><small>Source: Website AI Score (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/sites-blocking-ai-crawlers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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