PMI, Purchasing Managers’ Index

"S&P Global PMI data are closely-watched market-moving economic indicators, covering more than 30 advanced and emerging economies worldwide." That is how PMI, Purchasing Managers’ Index introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is close to invisible, scoring 2.6 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on basic crawler access. What holds it back is a heading structure that lays out what it offers, a clearly stated business identity, credibility markers like credentials or reviews, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow and structured data describing the business.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of 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 once in our tracking, including Applebot (Siri). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence. The business dates to 2023.