Travel & Hospitality · Rank #96 of 100

IHG Hotels & Resorts

Agent Readiness

8/100

Agent-Invisible

WAF blocks AI agents

Example agent task tested

Can an AI agent compare brand tiers and identify the best loyalty perks?

Dimension Breakdown

Six-dimension scorecard

AI Discoverability3

Answer Engine Readiness13

Agent Usability0

Trust & Verification1

Content Worthiness20

Machine Readiness13

Key Strengths

Key Gaps

AI agents blocked at the WAF
Homepage GET returned HTTP 403 from every fetch path we tried — plain HTTP request, browser-style user agent, AND a real headless Chromium browser. The block is at the WAF / TLS layer, not user-agent-based filtering.
→ Allowlist known AI-agent user agents (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider) and their published IP ranges in your WAF (Akamai/Cloudflare). Ease bot-protection rules for /.well-known/* and /robots.txt at minimum. Publish /llms.txt and /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json so agents can find a machine-readable map of your site.
robots.txt present
HTTP 403
→ Create /robots.txt at your site root. Include a Sitemap: line and reasonable crawl rules.
XML sitemap discovered
No sitemap.xml or Sitemap: directive in robots.txt
→ Publish an XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml and declare it in robots.txt via 'Sitemap: https://yourdomain/sitemap.xml'.
Primary content structure
Homepage not fetchable
→ Render important content server-side or provide a static HTML representation.
Business clarity on homepage
Could not fetch homepage
→ Ensure the homepage renders core messaging server-side.

Suggested Improvements

AI agents blocked at the WAF — Allowlist known AI-agent user agents (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider) and their published IP ranges in your WAF (Akamai/Cloudflare). Ease bot-protection rules for /.well-known/* and /robots.txt at minimum. Publish /llms.txt and /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json so agents can find a machine-readable map of your site.
robots.txt present — Create /robots.txt at your site root. Include a Sitemap: line and reasonable crawl rules.
XML sitemap discovered — Publish an XML sitemap at /sitemap.xml and declare it in robots.txt via 'Sitemap: https://yourdomain/sitemap.xml'.
Primary content structure — Render important content server-side or provide a static HTML representation.
Business clarity on homepage — Ensure the homepage renders core messaging server-side.

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Last scanned 6/5/2026, 4:49:09 PM · Scan duration 1.6s · Detected site type: campaign_microsite