Access and retrieval
robots.txt, AI identity classes, sitemaps, redirects, live response evidence and—on the Full Audit—CDN/WAF edge behaviour.
Measured by Digital DominatorKnow what is blocking AI access, give your developer the fix, and move on—without buying another dashboard or reinventing the audit internally. Built for commercially aware Heads of Digital, CMOs, SEO leads and developers, this fixed-price, human-reviewed audit separates declared crawler policy from observed access and turns the evidence into a prioritised remediation brief.
For UK teams, crawler access, search participation and use in AI-generated answers are related but distinct controls. This audit documents the technical access layer without treating permission as proof of visibility.
“AI visibility” covers several different questions. Digital Dominator focuses on the technical foundation and reports its limits clearly. A clean access result does not guarantee a recommendation; a blocked or contradictory result gives your technical team something concrete to fix.
robots.txt, AI identity classes, sitemaps, redirects, live response evidence and—on the Full Audit—CDN/WAF edge behaviour.
Measured by Digital DominatorWhether machines can identify the entity, trust its claims and reconcile its supporting signals across the web.
Not inferred from accessWhether a particular model selects, mentions or cites the organisation for a particular prompt, time and market.
No ranking guaranteeThis distinction protects you from paying to “fix AI visibility” when the actual issue is not technical access—and from receiving a reassuring access score that says nothing about authority or answer selection.
| Evidence area | What is examined | Customer output |
|---|---|---|
| Declared policy | A fixed 21-identity panel spanning search, user-fetch, training and data-use classes. | Identity-by-identity verdict matrix with the exact robots.txt basis. |
| Observed access | The response returned to Digital Dominator’s identified audit crawler. | Separate observation showing clean content, redirect, challenge, denial or timeout. |
| Site guidance | Sitemaps, crawl directives and optional llms.txt presence and consistency. | Confirmed findings and limitations—absence of an optional file is not labelled a failure. |
| Infrastructure | Full Audit: CDN, WAF, edge, redirect, TLS, response and challenge behaviour. | Prioritised developer remediation, walkthrough and a re-check after fixes. |
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UK organisations increasingly need to distinguish conventional search indexing, AI answer visibility and crawler-level access decisions. Digital Dominator records the declared policy and the response actually returned to an identified audit crawler, allowing legal, publishing, marketing and development stakeholders to discuss the same evidence.
For multi-country sites, the audit can identify where redirects, consent layers, regional routes or edge security produce a different result from the policy the organisation believes it has published.
No. It shows whether technical access or retrieval is a likely barrier and supplies evidence-backed fixes. Prompt monitoring and brand-mention measurement are different services.
Search/discovery, user-triggered fetch, training and data-use controls serve different functions. Combining them into one allowed/blocked headline can produce the wrong business conclusion.
UK brands, enterprise marketing teams, publishers, agencies and developers with a live website and a commercial reason to investigate AI retrieval. It is most useful when the buyer needs defensible evidence and actionable remediation rather than a free generic score.
Every paid report is human-reviewed and delivered within five business days. The Full Audit includes a walkthrough call and a free re-check after the agreed fixes are applied.