[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":732},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search":3,"blog-siblings":614},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":595,"date":596,"description":597,"draft":598,"extension":599,"image":600,"meta":601,"navigation":602,"path":603,"readingTime":604,"seo":605,"stem":606,"tags":607,"updated":612,"__hash__":613},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search.md","Uptime monitoring tools in ChatGPT and AI Overviews","devin",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":576},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,28,31,162,165,168,171,175,178,181,185,188,258,261,264,273,277,280,283,287,300,303,307,345,349,352,355,358,361,365,370,373,377,380,384,387,391,394,398,403,438,443,490,495,539,544],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Google's AI Overviews named UptimeRobot in 68% (54–81%) of the answers they gave to 40 buyer questions about uptime monitoring. The ChatGPT app named Better Stack in 68% (56–81%) of its answers and UptimeRobot in 63% (48–77%), and no other tool's range reached theirs. I asked each question once a day on 13, 14 and 15 October 2026.",[11,15,16],{},"The answers also moved from day to day. Google gave an AI Overview on all three days for 36 of the questions, and named the same set of tools all three times for none of them, counting the 79 tools I tracked. Of the tools it named for a question over the three days, 47% (41–51%) appeared on one day only.",[11,18,19],{},"Uptime monitoring made a good test: a few well-known names, and a long tail of small vendors. The method and its limits are near the end, and every question is listed at the bottom.",[21,22],"cta-inline",{},[24,25,27],"h2",{"id":26},"the-tools-named-most-often","The tools named most often",[11,29,30],{},"Each figure is the percentage of answers naming the tool, averaged over the questions, with a 95% range: all 40 on the ChatGPT app, 39 on Google. The table lists every tool in the top two groups on either engine, so it isn't each engine's nine most-named. Where two ranges overlap, the data doesn't say which tool is ahead, so read this as groups rather than a ranking.",[32,33,34,50],"table",{},[35,36,37],"thead",{},[38,39,40,44,47],"tr",{},[41,42,43],"th",{},"Tool",[41,45,46],{},"Google AI Overviews",[41,48,49],{},"ChatGPT app",[51,52,53,72,85,96,107,118,129,140,151],"tbody",{},[38,54,55,59,66],{},[56,57,58],"td",{},"UptimeRobot",[56,60,61,65],{},[62,63,64],"strong",{},"68%"," (54–81%)",[56,67,68,71],{},[62,69,70],{},"63%"," (48–77%)",[38,73,74,77,80],{},[56,75,76],{},"Better Stack",[56,78,79],{},"38% (25–50%)",[56,81,82,84],{},[62,83,64],{}," (56–81%)",[38,86,87,90,93],{},[56,88,89],{},"Uptime Kuma",[56,91,92],{},"42% (29–54%)",[56,94,95],{},"35% (23–48%)",[38,97,98,101,104],{},[56,99,100],{},"Pingdom",[56,102,103],{},"31% (21–43%)",[56,105,106],{},"23% (12–33%)",[38,108,109,112,115],{},[56,110,111],{},"Datadog",[56,113,114],{},"21% (11–32%)",[56,116,117],{},"24% (12–37%)",[38,119,120,123,126],{},[56,121,122],{},"PagerDuty",[56,124,125],{},"21% (12–32%)",[56,127,128],{},"16% (8–25%)",[38,130,131,134,137],{},[56,132,133],{},"Checkly",[56,135,136],{},"15% (7–24%)",[56,138,139],{},"17% (8–27%)",[38,141,142,145,148],{},[56,143,144],{},"Grafana",[56,146,147],{},"8% (2–15%)",[56,149,150],{},"18% (8–29%)",[38,152,153,156,159],{},[56,154,155],{},"Prometheus",[56,157,158],{},"5% (2–9%)",[56,160,161],{},"15% (7–25%)",[11,163,164],{},"Bold marks the top group on each engine: the leader, and any tool whose range overlaps the leader's. On Google that's UptimeRobot alone, narrowly: its range starts at 54.3%, and Uptime Kuma's ends at 53.8%. On the ChatGPT app it's Better Stack and UptimeRobot, and UptimeRobot's range starts at 48.3%, just above the end of Uptime Kuma's at 47.5%. The table rounds each of those pairs to the same whole number.",[11,166,167],{},"Better Stack is the one tool in the table whose ranges on the two engines don't overlap. Its ChatGPT app range starts at 56%, above the top of its Google range, 50%.",[11,169,170],{},"Uptime Kuma is free, open source and self-hosted, and it sits in the second group on both engines. Three of the 40 questions ask for a free, open-source or self-hosted tool, yet most of its mentions came from the other 37: 38 of 47 on Google and 33 of 42 on the ChatGPT app. So a buyer asking for a monitoring service may be pointed to a project they would run themselves.",[24,172,174],{"id":173},"most-commercial-tools-barely-appeared","Most commercial tools barely appeared",[11,176,177],{},"Before the first run I fixed a list of 79 tools to count: 49 commercial uptime and status-page products, 13 broader platforms such as Datadog and New Relic, and 17 open-source projects. Of the 49 commercial products, 32 had a share under 5% on both engines, and 14 weren't named in any of the 232 answers.",[11,179,180],{},"I'm not naming them. A low share in one category, from US searches over three days, says little about a product.",[24,182,184],{"id":183},"the-answers-moved-from-day-to-day","The answers moved from day to day",[11,186,187],{},"Each question went to each engine once a day for three days. The comparison below uses the questions with an answer on all three: 36 on Google and all 40 on the ChatGPT app.",[32,189,190,201],{},[35,191,192],{},[38,193,194,197,199],{},[41,195,196],{},"Same question, three days",[41,198,46],{},[41,200,49],{},[51,202,203,214,225,236,247],{},[38,204,205,208,211],{},[56,206,207],{},"Questions with an answer all three days",[56,209,210],{},"36",[56,212,213],{},"40",[38,215,216,219,222],{},[56,217,218],{},"Same set of tools named all three days",[56,220,221],{},"0",[56,223,224],{},"5",[38,226,227,230,233],{},[56,228,229],{},"Tools named on one day only",[56,231,232],{},"47% (41–51%)",[56,234,235],{},"34% (28–39%)",[38,237,238,241,244],{},[56,239,240],{},"Tools named on all three days",[56,242,243],{},"26% (21–32%)",[56,245,246],{},"46% (40–53%)",[38,248,249,252,255],{},[56,250,251],{},"Cited sites that appeared on one day only",[56,253,254],{},"63% (58–67%)",[56,256,257],{},"51% (43–58%)",[11,259,260],{},"Each tool row counts tool-and-question pairs: a tool from the list of 79, named for a question on at least one of the three days. Google's 47% is 139 of its 298 pairs. The cited-sites row counts each site once per question the same way. The ranges come from resampling the questions. Of the ChatGPT app's 5 unchanged questions, one (\"What's the best way to tell customers our website is down?\") named none of the 79 on any day, and one named a single tool.",[11,262,263],{},"One example shows what a single check can miss. On the first day, Google answered 12 of the 14 problem questions (most start \"How do I…\") with an AI Overview, and 5 of those 12 named one small tool. On the second day it was 3 of 13, and on the third, 1 of 13. All three days put it in 9 of 38.",[11,265,266,267,272],{},"If you're measuring your own brand, ",[268,269,271],"a",{"href":270},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-visibility","AI visibility as a rate"," covers how many answers a number needs.",[24,274,276],{"id":275},"google-and-the-chatgpt-app-cited-different-sites","Google and the ChatGPT app cited different sites",[11,278,279],{},"Google's AI Overviews cited YouTube in 43% (30–56%) of answers and Reddit in 21% (13–30%). The ChatGPT app listed neither in any of its 120 answers. The app's source lists were led by the two leaders' own sites and GitHub: uptimerobot.com in 62% (48–75%) of its answers, betterstack.com in 61% (47–73%) and GitHub in 33% (22–46%).",[11,281,282],{},"The two engines report sources differently. Google's figures count the links an Overview lists as references. The ChatGPT app's figures count its whole source list, which can include a link on a product's name in the answer, and GitHub hosts several of the open-source tools. So compare the YouTube and Reddit gap across engines, but read the vendor-site and GitHub figures within one.",[24,284,286],{"id":285},"what-to-take-from-this-if-you-sell-software","What to take from this if you sell software",[288,289,290,294,297],"ul",{},[291,292,293],"li",{},"Ask more than once before you act on an answer. For the small tool above, a check on the first day alone would have overstated its share, and one on the third day would have understated it.",[291,295,296],{},"Check the sources per engine. In this category, YouTube videos and Reddit threads showed up in Google's sources and not once in the ChatGPT app's. Check which sites each engine cites for your own buyers' questions.",[291,298,299],{},"Report a share with its range instead of a rank. All five ranges in Google's second group overlap one another, so the data can't put those tools in order.",[11,301,302],{},"Shruwd, the tool we are building, does the counting for your own questions. On the paid plans, a weekly run asks each question three times per engine, and each share it reports comes with its 95% range. For ChatGPT it reads the same app measured here.",[24,304,306],{"id":305},"how-i-ran-it","How I ran it",[288,308,309,315,321,327,333,339],{},[291,310,311,314],{},[62,312,313],{},"The questions."," 50, fixed before the first run. The results above use 40: 18 built from Google keyword data, 2 from searches ChatGPT ran while answering a trial set, and 20 written to fill gaps, mostly specific needs and problems in a buyer's own words. The other 10 ask for alternatives to a named product, which puts that product into the answer, so I left them out.",[291,316,317,320],{},[62,318,319],{},"The tools."," The list of 79 was fixed before the first run too. Names outside it were counted separately and didn't change anything above.",[291,322,323,326],{},[62,324,325],{},"The engines."," Google's results came through DataForSEO's Google search API (United States, English, desktop), with the AI Overview loaded. The ChatGPT app's answers came through DataForSEO's ChatGPT scraper (United States, English), which returns the app's answer and its sources.",[291,328,329,332],{},[62,330,331],{},"The days."," One run on each of 13, 14 and 15 October 2026 (UTC).",[291,334,335,338],{},[62,336,337],{},"The counting."," Names were matched by the same code Shruwd uses to count mentions: each tool's name and alternate spellings, as whole words. A tool named only inside a link's address didn't count; a link whose visible text was the tool's name did. Image descriptions and the app's small source tags (a site's name after a claim) didn't count either: the first aren't shown, and the second are citations, counted as such. To check it, a second pass (a language model reading each answer against the list, without the matcher's output) coded 40 random answers from the first day. It caught two mentions the matcher missed, both spelling variants, which I added before counting. After that, the two agreed on 240 of 242 mentions, and the other 2 were source tags the coder had counted as mentions.",[291,340,341,344],{},[62,342,343],{},"The arithmetic."," Each share of answers is averaged over questions, so each question counts equally. The day-to-day figures pool tool-and-question pairs instead, so a question with more tools counts for more. The 95% ranges come from resampling the questions 2,000 times, keeping each question's three answers together, because those three aren't independent.",[24,346,348],{"id":347},"what-this-cant-tell-you","What this can't tell you",[11,350,351],{},"The study covers one category, asked in US English, on three consecutive days. Other categories, countries or weeks could give different shares.",[11,353,354],{},"I counted names whether or not the answer recommended the tool. An answer can name a tool to say it's expensive or to warn against it.",[11,356,357],{},"The ChatGPT answers came through a data provider, not your account, so your history and settings played no part. Your own screen may show something different.",[11,359,360],{},"Eight of the 120 Google searches behind the results either showed no AI Overview or had the question's spelling corrected, so Google's shares come from 112 answers. One question, \"What's the best way to tell customers our website is down?\", was spelling-corrected on all three days, so Google's shares average 39 questions, not 40.",[24,362,364],{"id":363},"frequently-asked-questions","Frequently asked questions",[366,367,369],"h3",{"id":368},"which-uptime-monitoring-tool-does-chatgpt-name-most-often","Which uptime monitoring tool does ChatGPT name most often?",[11,371,372],{},"In this study of the ChatGPT app, Better Stack and UptimeRobot. Asked 40 uptime-monitoring questions once a day from 13 to 15 October 2026, the app named Better Stack in 68% (56–81%) of its answers and UptimeRobot in 63% (48–77%). Their ranges overlap, so neither is clearly ahead. Every other tool's range sat below both. The closest was Uptime Kuma's, 35% with a range ending at 47.5%, just under the 48.3% where UptimeRobot's starts.",[366,374,376],{"id":375},"does-googles-ai-overview-give-the-same-answer-every-time","Does Google's AI Overview give the same answer every time?",[11,378,379],{},"Not in this study. For each of 36 uptime-monitoring questions, Google's AI Overview named a different set of tools on at least one of three consecutive days. About half the tools it named for a question, 47% (41–51%), appeared on only one of the three days, and 63% (58–67%) of the sites it cited for a question were cited on only one day.",[366,381,383],{"id":382},"do-googles-ai-overviews-and-chatgpt-name-the-same-tools","Do Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT name the same tools?",[11,385,386],{},"Partly. UptimeRobot was in the top group on both. Better Stack was named in 68% (56–81%) of the ChatGPT app's answers but 38% (25–50%) of Google's, the only tool in either engine's top two groups whose ranges on the two engines don't overlap. The sources differed too: Google's AI Overviews cited YouTube in 43% (30–56%) of answers and Reddit in 21% (13–30%), and the ChatGPT app listed neither in any of its 120 answers.",[366,388,390],{"id":389},"why-show-ranges-instead-of-a-ranking","Why show ranges instead of a ranking?",[11,392,393],{},"Because the answers change from day to day, and 40 questions is a sample. A share like 38% (25–50%) says how far the number could plausibly move with a different draw of questions. When two tools' ranges overlap, the data doesn't separate them, and a ranking would claim more than it shows.",[24,395,397],{"id":396},"the-questions","The questions",[11,399,400],{},[62,401,402],{},"About the category (11):",[288,404,405,408,411,414,417,420,423,426,429,432,435],{},[291,406,407],{},"best uptime monitoring tool",[291,409,410],{},"uptime monitoring tools compared",[291,412,413],{},"What is the best website monitoring service?",[291,415,416],{},"Is there a good free uptime monitoring service?",[291,418,419],{},"What are the best open source uptime monitoring tools?",[291,421,422],{},"best synthetic monitoring tools",[291,424,425],{},"What are the best API monitoring tools?",[291,427,428],{},"best status page software",[291,430,431],{},"What are the best server uptime monitoring tools?",[291,433,434],{},"How much do uptime monitoring tools cost?",[291,436,437],{},"What is uptime monitoring and do I need a tool for it?",[11,439,440],{},[62,441,442],{},"For a specific need (15):",[288,444,445,448,451,454,457,460,463,466,469,472,475,478,481,484,487],{},[291,446,447],{},"uptime monitoring for a small SaaS team that also needs a status page",[291,449,450],{},"cheap uptime monitoring with SMS alerts",[291,452,453],{},"what is the best website monitoring service for a small business",[291,455,456],{},"What's the best uptime monitoring for a WordPress site?",[291,458,459],{},"uptime monitoring for an e-commerce store that can't afford downtime",[291,461,462],{},"website uptime monitoring for a web agency managing dozens of client sites",[291,464,465],{},"uptime monitoring that alerts our team in Slack",[291,467,468],{},"uptime monitoring that checks my site from multiple countries",[291,470,471],{},"self-hosted uptime monitor I can run in Docker",[291,473,474],{},"one tool for both uptime checks and cron job heartbeat monitoring",[291,476,477],{},"hosted status page for a B2B SaaS that emails subscribers during incidents",[291,479,480],{},"synthetic monitoring for login and checkout flows",[291,482,483],{},"API monitoring defined as code in our CI\u002FCD pipeline",[291,485,486],{},"uptime monitoring with 30-second check intervals",[291,488,489],{},"EU-hosted uptime monitoring for a SaaS that needs GDPR-friendly data residency",[11,491,492],{},[62,493,494],{},"About a problem (14):",[288,496,497,500,503,506,509,512,515,518,521,524,527,530,533,536],{},[291,498,499],{},"how do I get alerted when my website goes down",[291,501,502],{},"how can I monitor my API endpoints and cron jobs",[291,504,505],{},"How do I check if my website is down?",[291,507,508],{},"How do I get alerted when a cron job fails or doesn't run?",[291,510,511],{},"How do I get notified before my SSL certificate expires?",[291,513,514],{},"How do I monitor my API's uptime and response times?",[291,516,517],{},"How do I set up a public status page for my website?",[291,519,520],{},"What's the best way to tell customers our website is down?",[291,522,523],{},"My website keeps going down at random times. How do I find out when and why?",[291,525,526],{},"How do I stop getting false alarms from my uptime monitor?",[291,528,529],{},"How do I detect when my site shows an error page but still returns 200 OK?",[291,531,532],{},"How do I find out quickly when a SaaS tool we depend on has an outage?",[291,534,535],{},"How do I measure my website's uptime percentage?",[291,537,538],{},"How can I monitor my website if I'm not technical?",[11,540,541],{},[62,542,543],{},"Asked but left out of the results, because each names a product (10):",[288,545,546,549,552,555,558,561,564,567,570,573],{},[291,547,548],{},"Pingdom alternatives",[291,550,551],{},"free alternative to Pingdom",[291,553,554],{},"UptimeRobot alternatives",[291,556,557],{},"open source alternative to UptimeRobot",[291,559,560],{},"Better Stack alternatives",[291,562,563],{},"Datadog synthetic monitoring alternatives",[291,565,566],{},"Atlassian Statuspage alternatives",[291,568,569],{},"cheaper alternative to Datadog for uptime and API monitoring",[291,571,572],{},"Site24x7 alternatives",[291,574,575],{},"Pingdom alternative with a built-in status page",{"title":577,"searchDepth":578,"depth":578,"links":579},"",3,[580,582,583,584,585,586,587,588,594],{"id":26,"depth":581,"text":27},2,{"id":173,"depth":581,"text":174},{"id":183,"depth":581,"text":184},{"id":275,"depth":581,"text":276},{"id":285,"depth":581,"text":286},{"id":305,"depth":581,"text":306},{"id":347,"depth":581,"text":348},{"id":363,"depth":581,"text":364,"children":589},[590,591,592,593],{"id":368,"depth":578,"text":369},{"id":375,"depth":578,"text":376},{"id":382,"depth":578,"text":383},{"id":389,"depth":578,"text":390},{"id":396,"depth":581,"text":397},"Measurement","2026-10-16","The tools Google's AI Overviews and the ChatGPT app named for 40 uptime-monitoring questions, asked once a day for three days, and how much the answers changed.",false,"md","\u002Fimgs\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search",11,{"title":5,"description":597},"blog\u002Fuptime-monitoring-tools-ai-search",[608,609,610,611],"AI Overviews","ChatGPT","uptime monitoring","AI visibility",null,"DeuVT5A5gIZB0WLtvBLePXQIV7BEbmCls8xc6EAkK_c",[615,626,636,647,658,669,678,688,697,704,706,714,723],{"path":616,"title":617,"description":618,"date":619,"category":595,"image":620,"tags":621,"draft":598,"readingTime":625},"\u002Fblog\u002Fai-impressions-traffic-drop","AI impressions rising, traffic falling: what to check","Why Search Console can show AI impressions rising while organic clicks fall, what an AI impression counts, and how to check whether the answer named you.","2026-09-30","\u002Fimgs\u002Fai-impressions-traffic-drop.jpg",[622,608,623,624],"Search Console","AI impressions","organic traffic",7,{"path":270,"title":627,"description":628,"date":629,"category":595,"image":630,"tags":631,"draft":598,"readingTime":635},"AI visibility: how to measure it, and why one number lies","AI visibility is a rate across repeated runs, so one score from one check tells you little. What to count, and how to tell a real change from noise.","2026-09-18","\u002Fimgs\u002Fai-visibility.jpg",[611,632,633,634],"measurement","share of voice","GEO",9,{"path":637,"title":638,"description":639,"date":640,"category":641,"image":642,"tags":643,"draft":598,"readingTime":604},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-ai-visibility-tools","Best AI visibility tools in 2026, and the catch with each","Nine AI visibility tools compared on price, AI engines, how often they run and how they collect answers, from each vendor's own pages, checked September 2026.","2026-09-21","Tools","\u002Fimgs\u002Fbest-ai-visibility-tools.jpg",[611,644,645,646],"AEO tools","GEO tools","tools",{"path":648,"title":649,"description":650,"date":640,"category":651,"image":652,"tags":653,"draft":598,"readingTime":635},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcloudflare-block-ai-bots","Cloudflare Block AI Bots: what changed, and what to check","Cloudflare replaced its Block AI Bots toggle on 15 September 2026. What the new settings do to Googlebot and ChatGPT, and how to see what it turns away.","Diagnostics","\u002Fimgs\u002Fcloudflare-block-ai-bots.jpg",[654,655,656,657],"Cloudflare","AI crawlers","Bot Fight Mode","OAI-SearchBot",{"path":659,"title":660,"description":661,"date":629,"category":662,"image":663,"tags":664,"draft":598,"readingTime":668},"\u002Fblog\u002Fgeo-vs-seo","GEO vs SEO: what changed, what didn't, what to do first","How GEO differs from SEO, which GEO advice has evidence behind it, and two checks you can run on your own site today.","Guides","\u002Fimgs\u002Fgeo-vs-seo.jpg",[634,665,666,667],"SEO","AEO","AI search",13,{"path":670,"title":671,"description":672,"date":673,"category":662,"image":674,"tags":675,"draft":598,"readingTime":677},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-rank-in-chatgpt","How to rank in ChatGPT: what decides which sites it cites","Which OpenAI crawler to let in, where ChatGPT searches, what it can read on your page, and how to check your server logs for its visits.","2026-09-19","\u002Fimgs\u002Fhow-to-rank-in-chatgpt.jpg",[676,657,634,667],"ChatGPT SEO",8,{"path":679,"title":680,"description":681,"date":682,"category":651,"image":683,"tags":684,"draft":598,"readingTime":635},"\u002Fblog\u002Fjavascript-seo","JavaScript SEO: Google renders your pages, ChatGPT may not","Googlebot runs your JavaScript, and most AI fetchers don't. Who renders what in 2026, how to check your own pages, and how to fix them.","2026-10-13","\u002Fimgs\u002Fjavascript-seo.jpg",[685,686,655,609,687],"JavaScript SEO","SPA","server-side rendering",{"path":689,"title":690,"description":691,"date":629,"category":662,"image":692,"tags":693,"draft":598,"readingTime":604},"\u002Fblog\u002Fllm-seo","LLM SEO: five levers with evidence, and two without","Five LLM SEO levers with evidence behind them, graded by strength, and the reason schema markup and llms.txt aren't among them.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fllm-seo.jpg",[694,634,667,695,696],"LLM SEO","llms.txt","schema",{"path":698,"title":699,"description":700,"date":619,"category":595,"image":701,"tags":702,"draft":598,"readingTime":668},"\u002Fblog\u002Fprompt-tracking","Prompt tracking: which prompts to track, with 32 examples","Which prompts to track to see whether ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews name you: eight kinds, 32 examples across four businesses, and how many you need.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fprompt-tracking.jpg",[703,609,611,667],"Prompt tracking",{"path":603,"title":5,"description":597,"date":596,"category":595,"image":600,"tags":705,"draft":598,"readingTime":604},[608,609,610,611],{"path":707,"title":708,"description":709,"date":710,"category":651,"image":711,"tags":712,"draft":598,"readingTime":713},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot","Why AI search keeps naming UptimeRobot","In a 40-question study, UptimeRobot was the only uptime tool in the top group on both Google's AI Overviews and the ChatGPT app. Here is what goes with that.","2026-10-19","\u002Fimgs\u002Fwhy-ai-search-names-uptimerobot.jpg",[608,609,611,610],10,{"path":715,"title":716,"description":717,"date":718,"category":651,"image":719,"tags":720,"draft":598,"readingTime":722},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-recommends-your-competitor","Why ChatGPT recommends your competitor: 10 reasons","Ten reasons ChatGPT names a competitor instead of you, in the order to check them, each with a check you can run, the fix, and how strong the evidence is.","2026-09-26","\u002Fimgs\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-recommends-your-competitor.jpg",[609,611,721,667],"brand mentions",15,{"path":724,"title":725,"description":726,"date":682,"category":651,"image":727,"tags":728,"draft":598,"readingTime":713},"\u002Fblog\u002Fyc-startups-ai-crawlers","I scanned 500 YC startups to see if AI search can read them","I checked the robots.txt and homepage HTML of 500 YC B2B startups. 3 of 471 block an AI answer crawler. Empty JavaScript homepages are more common. What to check on your site.","\u002Fimgs\u002Fyc-startups-ai-crawlers.jpg",[655,729,730,657,731],"robots.txt","GPTBot","JavaScript",1792602559675]