The public record
The readable web
Explore how easily AI agents can read different kinds of websites. The public overview combines anonymous results; individual businesses appear only after their owners verify and opt in.
- Visit
- Request
- Response
Disclosures
ARS measures format and retrievability. It does not measure whether the facts are true, or whether any assistant cites this page.
Every score below is ARS 0.2.0: measured 63 points, heuristic 37 points, of 100. Ruleset 18f8b6ce. Read the standard.
Aggregates
Compare readability across types of websites
Published per page kind and only above a floor of 25 independent domains per bucket.
Reading the aggregate distribution…
Named entries
Domains that asked to be listed
Verified by a DNS TXT record on the domain itself. Nothing else is ever named.
Reading the index…
Leaving
How removal works
Removal is free
There is no price, no plan, and no support tier attached to leaving. Removal is never purchasable in either direction: you cannot pay to be removed, and you cannot pay to be listed.
Removal is self-serve
The same DNS TXT record that verifies ownership removes the entry. An unverified request also works: it triggers suppression pending review, because a person exercising erasure against a personal-name domain cannot be made to prove DNS control first.
Removal is permanent
Suppression is keyed by registrable domain and consulted on the read path, the write path, and the badge endpoint. A later crawl cannot re-list a suppressed domain, and the domain is dropped from the aggregate distributions too.
Appeal outcomes are not published
If a domain owner disputes an entry and the entry stands, we publish nothing about the dispute. "They complained and lost" is worse for the appellant than the original entry was.