The Gritty Developer

The Gritty Developer describes itself simply: "Skip to content Homesteven2018-07-31T22:02:21+00:00 The Gritty Developer The personal website of Steven SmithI need to redo my website but don’t have time right now." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.1 out of 10.

The page falls short on a heading structure that lays out what it offers, the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow, structured data describing the business, a clearly stated business identity and credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. Beyond that, the domain does not yet read as established, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Applebot (Siri). There is not much on the page to read either, about 64 words. It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.