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Read the evidence behind a website check.

A title tag, a crawler rule and an AI citation are different observations. A useful report keeps them separate.

TKC Editorial · Website foundations

Understand what was read

The TKC website check reads the public homepage response and the site’s robots.txt. It looks for a title, description, main heading, canonical URL, indexing directives, JSON-LD and selected root crawler rules.

It does not run the page’s JavaScript or sign in. A page that builds all of its content in the browser may show less information to this check than it shows to a visitor. A blocked request is reported as unavailable, not as a score of zero.

Interpret each result narrowly

Finding a title means a title is present. It does not tell us that the title is persuasive. Parsing JSON-LD means the JSON is readable; it does not establish that every statement in it is accurate.

A robots.txt rule describes an access policy. It does not prove that a crawler visited, indexed or cited the site. A restriction can also be intentional, so a review item is a prompt to inspect the choice rather than an automatic instruction to remove it.

Choose the next evidence

To understand search performance, use the measurements for the actual site and query. To understand AI answer visibility, inspect the answer, the question, the date and the cited source. Those observations are outside this homepage check.

Start with the issues whose evidence you can verify. Make a change, repeat the same check and compare the result. Keep the question small enough that you can tell what changed.

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