From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
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More than half of all HTML page requests now come from machines rather than humans, signaling a shift in how businesses get discovered. Cloudflare has launched two tools in its dashboard to help site owners adapt: Agent Readiness (Diagnostics) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). Agent Readiness scans a site the way an AI agent would — checking robots.txt, sitemaps, Markdown availability, API catalogs, MCP/A2A cards, and payment protocols — and scores it from 'Not Ready' to fully agent-native. AEO probes leading AI assistants (Claude and GPT) with realistic customer prompts to measure Citation Rate, Prominence, Mention Rate, and Share of Voice, showing whether AI assistants recommend your site over competitors. The tools use Cloudflare AI Gateway for multi-model querying and Workers AI for response evaluation, providing actionable metrics without requiring site owners to build their own evaluation pipelines.
