In short
- The gate
- Access for AI crawlers. Closed, and the rest of your site does not matter — nobody is there to read it.
- What you decide
- Everything. Not one component depends on anyone else, which makes it the first place to start.
- What it does not say
- Whether you get named. A site can be entirely ready and appear in no answer at all because nothing about you exists outside it.
Which components make up a site's readiness?
Four, with the weights our own meter actually uses. They are listed below with their reasoning, because a weight without justification is an opinion in numeric form.
If a signal is missing — because a site returns no load-time data, say — we weigh across the known components and do not penalise the unmeasurable. A score that drops because we could not fetch something measures us, not you.
| What | Weight | Why that weight |
|---|---|---|
| leesbaarheid · crawler | 20 | A gate, not a component. Closed, the whole score is capped at 20 — the rest stops counting. |
| techniek | 25 | Load time, headings, meta, internal links. Fixable in days, and it is the part SEO already covers. |
| structuur | 35 | The heaviest. Entity, offer and FAQ in schema — this is what makes you citable instead of merely readable. |
| versheid | 20 | Maintenance. A page that has not moved in two years loses to one that has, even when both are accurate. |
Why does crawler access count for more than its weight?
Because it is not a component but a condition. Block the AI crawlers and you can perfect the other three components while nothing changes: the work is there and nobody fetches it. In our own meter that is therefore not a deduction but a cap — the score cannot then rise above twenty, however good the rest is.
That is more often an accident than a decision. A block put in place during a rebuild and never removed, or a setting in a hosting package. It is the cheapest repair in this entire craft and at the same time the most expensive to overlook.
Can I check this without buying a service?
Half of it, with tooling that costs nothing: fetch your robots.txt, view your page with scripts disabled, and run your structured data through a validator. That covers the gate and part of the structure.
What is harder to establish on your own is whether your server logs show those crawlers actually turning up — and whether it really is them. A visitor can state any name; only for some crawlers can that name be checked against a published list.
When does scoring higher stop making sense?
Once the gate is open, the structure is sound and the site is maintained, the return per hour of work has become small. From that point on the rest lies outside your site: are you named anywhere, is there something about you in a source the engine trusts. That is slower work and it is the only thing still moving.
Frequently asked questions
Does high readiness guarantee AI will name me?
No, and that is why the two belong side by side as separate numbers. Readiness is a condition: without it nothing works, with it nothing happens by itself. Merging them into one figure promises a link that is not there.
How often should I have this measured again?
After every change to your site, and otherwise whenever something structural shifts: a new platform, a migration, a new hosting provider. Those are the moments a gate swings shut without anyone noticing, and that is the one change you want to see immediately.
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