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Analysis of what actually affects whether AI answer engines can read and cite a site — no hype, no invented statistics, sources cited by name.
Our "framework-agnostic" function only worked in Next.js
detectAndOptimize() shipped with no request/response objects and no framework imports in its signature — and crashed instantly in Nuxt, Vue, or plain Node, because the module it lived in statically imported next/server. It reached npm before anyone caught it.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read
Does your store show up when customers ask ChatGPT for a recommendation?
A growing share of product research happens inside AI chat tools instead of a search results page. Here's what actually determines whether an AI assistant can find and recommend your store, and how to check it yourself in a few minutes.
August 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Google is now scoring your site for AI agents
Lighthouse added an Agentic Browsing category that audits accessibility-tree correctness, layout stability, llms.txt, and WebMCP. Here's what it checks, what it doesn't mean, and what's actually worth fixing.
August 1, 2026 · 3 min read
We failed Google's AI-readiness audit on our own site
An invalid HTML nesting in our own FAQ accordion broke the accessibility tree and tripped three separate Lighthouse audits at once — invisible in a browser, and a real bug in a site built to sell AI visibility.
August 1, 2026 · 3 min read
What an AI crawler actually receives when it requests your page
AI crawlers fetch raw HTML and don't execute JavaScript. Real output from scanning this site's own homepage shows exactly what that means in practice, and how to check what any page actually sends before a browser touches it.
August 1, 2026 · 2 min read