Sendible
An initial deterministic pass across sendible.com — AI-crawler access, crawlability, schema, rendering, and semantic structure. Each item is a pass/fail call, not an opinion. A full audit follows once we engage.
Escalated — critical findings could block visibility
Technical scorecard
7 pass · 6 flagged across 13 deterministic checks. Technical foundation looks clean on the quick check. Engagement value will be in growth/content/keyword strategy rather than fixing broken infrastructure.
Claude
CriticalCannot read the homepage
Claude API call failed: RateLimitError: Error code: 429 - {'type': 'error', 'error': {'type': 'rate_limit_error', 'message': "This request would exceed your organization's rate limit of 30,000 input tokens per minute (org: 3
ChatGPT
PassCan fetch and read the homepage
When a user pastes this URL into ChatGPT, the assistant successfully fetches the page and reads its content. ChatGPT returned verbatim on-page text: 'Sendible: Social Media Management Software'.
Gemini
CriticalCannot read the homepage
Gemini (gemini-2.5-flash) returned: 'The content is a long string. I need to parse it to find the first `<h1>` tag.\nSince the output is already text, I will search for the first occurrence of `<h1`'. We couldn't verify this against on-page content.
Crawler access policy published
Passrobots.txt found and reachable (165 bytes).
Sitemap exists but robots.txt doesn't reference it
LowThe sitemap is reachable at /sitemap.xml, but robots.txt doesn't include a `Sitemap:` line pointing to it. Crawlers have to guess the location — adding one line to robots.txt fixes this.
All major search and AI crawlers are allowed
PassAll 12 tracked search engines (Google, Bing) and AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 8 others) have unrestricted access.
Preferred URL is declared (canonical tag present)
PassCanonical URL declared: https://www.sendible.com
Bot-protection layer detected (Cloudflare)
InfoThe site is fronted by Cloudflare bot-protection. AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) may be blocked by this layer even when robots.txt allows them — verify the WAF's bot rules allowlist verified AI crawler IP ranges.
Homepage content is readable without JavaScript
PassThe homepage serves 24,183 characters of readable content directly in the HTML — no security challenge, no JavaScript required.
Homepage content renders without JavaScript
PassThe homepage delivers 24,183 characters of content directly in the HTML — readable by every search engine and AI crawler without running JavaScript.
13% of homepage links can't be followed by crawlers
Medium36 of 285 homepage links (13%) use `href="#"`, `javascript:`, or have no `href` at all. Crawlers and AI agents can't follow these. Some broken links signal that the page relies on JavaScript onClick handlers for navigation.
Homepage has 2 main-heading elements (one is recommended)
Low2 main-heading (H1) elements on the homepage. SEO best practice is a single H1 per page. Primary H1: "Manage your social media at scale .".
Structured data present (2 block, 6 schema type(s))
Pass2 valid structured-data block(s) on the homepage. Schema types declared: CreativeWork, OfferCatalog, Organization, WebPage, WebPageElement, WebSite.
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