Can AI read your catalog?
If your product pages lack complete schema, your category pages have thin or no readable text, or a CDN setting blocks AI crawlers while humans browse fine, your store does not exist to the engines that recommend products. AuditLamp is a free scanner that reads your store the way AI and search crawlers do, across up to 150 pages, and ranks the failures by how much they cost you.
No email required on the diagnosis. Paste your store URL. Free scan. Worst problems first.
Whole site up to 150 pages · 164 graded checks · no email on the diagnosis · $10 full report if you want the PDF
Readiness and markup quality, not a Shopping rank guarantee.
The scan checks whether your public pages carry complete product signals, enough depth to describe what you sell, acceptable page weight, and whether AI crawlers are allowed to read the store at all. It does not promise Google Shopping placement, a specific Marketplace ranking, or that an AI assistant will recommend your SKU. Those outcomes depend on signals across competing sites. Removing the failures the scan surfaces removes blockers you have control over. Full Report is $10 once. Ongoing re-checks are on pricing.
Why do my products not show up when someone asks an AI what to buy?
AI shopping answers come from pages that carry complete product markup: name, image, price, currency, and availability in machine-readable JSON-LD. If product pages lack complete Product schema, or if AI crawlers are blocked at the edge, the store does not exist to the AI even when checkout works perfectly for human shoppers.
The block is often invisible. In our scan corpus, 12.7% of 102 scanned sites returned HTTP 403 to a named AI crawler even though their robots.txt explicitly allowed it. The CDN or edge firewall overrode the robots file. You can permit GPTBot in robots.txt and still be unreachable at the network layer. For an online store, that means shoppers using AI to find products may never see your inventory, regardless of what your robots.txt says. The scan tests both layers and reports both. Source: AuditLamp scan corpus, n=105 (check ran on 102), 2026-08-12.
What product schema fields does my store actually need?
The minimum for Google Shopping and AI visibility is Product schema with name, image, offers.price, offers.priceCurrency, and offers.availability. Shipping and return details are increasingly required for shopping features. If any field is missing or malformed, the product can be excluded entirely. The scan flags the specific absent fields on each product page, not just whether schema is present.
The most common failure in ecommerce schema is presence without completeness: a Product block that exists but leaves offer fields empty, or carries a price without a currency code. These partial implementations pass a basic schema-detector but fail the shopping-feature eligibility check. The scan grades completeness, not just presence, and ranks the gap by how many product pages carry it.
Can AI crawlers be blocked on my store without me setting that up?
Yes. In our scan corpus, 12.7% of 102 business sites returned HTTP 403 to an AI crawler even though robots.txt explicitly allowed it. The block was at the edge, a CDN firewall default no one had reviewed. The robots.txt said welcome; the server said forbidden. For a store, that means products you intended to be findable are still invisible to AI shopping engines. Source: AuditLamp scan corpus, n=105 (check ran on 102), 2026-08-12.
Storefront platforms and CDN presets sometimes ship with bot-blocking rules that predate the AI crawler era. The rule was written for scrapers, not for GPTBot or OAI-SearchBot, but the user-agent pattern catches them anyway. The scan probes named AI crawlers by user-agent, separate from the robots.txt check, and reports the result for each bot it tests.
Do thin category pages hurt my store's AI and search visibility?
Yes. Category pages that carry only product thumbnails and no readable text give crawlers nothing to quote or index. Many storefront themes ship with a single paragraph across ten collections, which reads as near-empty to a crawler. The scan flags pages below a minimum content threshold and pages that return blank without JavaScript rendering.
The JavaScript rendering problem is separate from thin content. If your category pages require JavaScript to display products and the crawler receives an empty shell, the page is effectively invisible even if rich products are loaded client-side. The scan checks both: raw HTML content depth and JavaScript dependency. Neither blocks the other check.
How do I run a free AI visibility check on my online store?
Paste your store URL into AuditLamp. The free scan reads up to 150 pages, checks each product page for complete schema, tests whether AI crawlers are allowed or silently blocked, measures page weight, and flags thin category content. The diagnosis is free and does not require an email address. Full Report is $10 once if you want the PDF to keep.
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