The Census · 2026-Q4 · sp500

AI crawlers cannot reach this site. AIR-1.2 failed, so an assistant asking about this organization gets nothing from here whatever the page contains. The score beside it says how well the site is built; this says none of it is currently reachable. Both are true, and neither replaces the other — which is why the score is no longer capped to say it.

https://sempra.com/ · ranked 405 in its cohort · 1 page read · 51 tests · 19 September 2026

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Sempra

Score

28/100

8 of 51 tests pass · 72 points still on the table

You · 28
NOT READY 0–39 WEAK 40–59 ADEQUATE 60–74 STRONG 75–89 EXEMPLARY 90–99

We ran all 51 scored tests across 7 dimensions, against the 1 page we read.

Not ready

AI crawlers are turned away before they reach the content, so nothing else on this page has had a chance to matter.

Do these three first

The fastest 14 points on this scan

1 +5

AIR-1.2 · medium effort

CDN and WAF do not silently reject AI crawlers

8 of 8 AI user-agents are rejected or challenged at the edge.

Do this: Stop rejecting AI crawlers at the CDN or WAF.

2 +6

AIR-2.1 · large effort

Primary content is present without JavaScript

Raw HTML contains 0% of rendered text on average across 1 URLs.

Do this: Server-render or statically render the primary content.

3 +3

AIR-1.4 · small effort

Content Signals declared in robots.txt

No Content-Signal line in robots.txt. Missing: search, ai-input, ai-train.

Do this: Declare a Content Signals position in robots.txt.

Nine dimensions, most to least left on the table

1 page crawled

Every test · all 67 tests, in order

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AIR-1.1 Can AI crawlers reach your site? PASS 5 pt
Why we test this

No robots.txt is published, so nothing is disallowed.

Your robots.txt file tells crawlers what they may read. A line left behind by a previous site or a copied template can quietly shut out the assistants people now use to find you.

AIR-1.2 Does your CDN let AI crawlers through?8 of 8 AI user-agents are rejected or challenged at the edge. PROBLEM +5
What's wrong

8 of 8 AI user-agents are rejected or challenged at the edge.

Even when robots.txt says yes, a firewall or bot-protection rule can turn assistants away before they reach your pages. We sent a request as each one and recorded what came back.

AIR-1.3 Is your page readable without a security challenge?1 of 1 sampled pages return an interactive challenge (Cloudflare Turnstile). PROBLEM +1
What's wrong

1 of 1 sampled pages return an interactive challenge (Cloudflare Turnstile).

A CAPTCHA or bot check on an ordinary page stops an assistant at the door. These belong on forms and logins, not on pages anyone can read.

AIR-1.4 Have you stated what AI may do with your content?No Content-Signal line in robots.txt. Missing: search, ai-input, ai-train. PROBLEM +3
What's wrong

No Content-Signal line in robots.txt. Missing: search, ai-input, ai-train.

There is now a machine-readable way to say whether AI may search, quote or train on your material. Having a position — any position — is the point.

AIR-1.5 Can a person read your AI policy?robots.txt carries no human-readable policy statement. PROBLEM +1
What's wrong

robots.txt carries no human-readable policy statement.

A few plain sentences in robots.txt saying what you permit. Journalists and lawyers read this file, and right now most sites say nothing.

AIR-1.6 Are you allowing assistants to quote you? PASS 1 pt
Why we test this

No noarchive, nosnippet or max-snippet:0 directives found.

Some sites carry old settings that tell search engines not to show excerpts. Those same settings stop an assistant quoting your page in an answer.

AIR-1.7 Does this page declare its real address?0% of sampled pages emit a valid, self-consistent canonical. 1 have problems. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

0% of sampled pages emit a valid, self-consistent canonical. 1 have problems.

A canonical link tells a machine which URL is the true one. Without it the same content can be treated as several competing pages.

AIR-1.8 Is your page structured so a machine can follow it?0% of sampled pages carry one main element, a wrapping article or section, and a nav. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

0% of sampled pages carry one main element, a wrapping article or section, and a nav.

Meaningful sections rather than an undifferentiated wall of containers. It is the difference between a document and a soup of boxes.

AIR-1.9 Do your headings tell a clear story?0% of sampled pages have exactly one non-empty h1 and no skipped heading levels. 1 have no h1 PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

0% of sampled pages have exactly one non-empty h1 and no skipped heading levels. 1 have no h1

One main heading, then sub-headings in order. Assistants use headings to work out what a page is about and which part answers a question.

AIR-1.10 Do you publish a guide for AI assistants?/llms.txt returns HTTP 403. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

/llms.txt returns HTTP 403.

A file at /llms.txt listing your most important pages. It is early and cheap, and it forces a useful conversation about what actually matters on your site.

AIR-1.11 Can a machine tell what your organization is?No JSON-LD nodes were found across the sample. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

No JSON-LD nodes were found across the sample.

Structured data that links together — your organization, your site, this page — rather than a scattering of disconnected labels.

AIR-1.12 Can a machine be certain it is you?No sameAs links were found on Organization or Person nodes. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

No sameAs links were found on Organization or Person nodes.

Links from your markup to authoritative records like Wikidata or ROR. Without one, an assistant is guessing which organization of your name it has found.

AIR-1.13 Can a machine find out who you are?0 of 7 organizational facts are present in the Organization markup: none. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

0 of 7 organizational facts are present in the Organization markup: none.

Founding date, leadership, address, contact details, legal identifiers. Thin About pages are the most common weakness we see.

AIR-2.1 Primary content is present without JavaScriptRaw HTML contains 0% of rendered text on average across 1 URLs. PROBLEM +6
What's wrong

Raw HTML contains 0% of rendered text on average across 1 URLs.

AIR-2.2 Progressive disclosure content ships in the initial HTML NOT SCORED —
AIR-2.3 Real data tables with header cells NOT SCORED —
AIR-2.4 Stable, human-readable anchor IDs on section headingsNo subheadings in the sample. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

No subheadings in the sample.

AIR-2.5 Alt text on content images, empty alt on decorativeNo images in the sample. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

No images in the sample.

AIR-2.6 Key facts exist as HTML text, not only in images or PDFs PASS 1 pt
Why we test this

No page in the sample looks like its facts live only in an image or a document.

AIR-3.1 JSON-LD is generated from mapped fields, not hardcodedSchema values track visible content across 0 templates. NEEDS WORK +1
What's half-done

Schema values track visible content across 0 templates.

AIR-3.2 BreadcrumbList on every page below the homepage PASS 2 pt
Why we test this

No pages below the homepage were sampled.

AIR-3.3 Vertical-specific schema types NOT SCORED —
AIR-3.4 FAQPage and QAPage on genuine question-and-answer content NOT SCORED —
AIR-3.5 isAccessibleForFree, about, and mentions with entity references0 of 1 substantive pages declare isAccessibleForFree; 0 reference subject entities by identifier. PROBLEM +1
What's wrong

0 of 1 substantive pages declare isAccessibleForFree; 0 reference subject entities by identifier.

AIR-3.6 Product, Offer, and Service with real prices NOT SCORED —
AIR-3.7 SearchAction on the WebSite node NOT SCORED —
AIR-3.8 Schema validation of the structured data on the page PASS 2 pt
Why we test this

0 nodes across 1 pages parse, carry what their types require, and hold well-formed values.

AIR-4.1 RSL licensing document published and referenced NOT SCORED —
AIR-4.2 RSL terms propagated to feeds and schema NOT SCORED —
AIR-4.3 Web Bot Auth verification configured NOT SCORED —
AIR-4.4 Correct X-Robots-Tag on non-HTML resources NOT SCORED —
AIR-4.5 Missing pages return 404 or 410 PASS 1 pt
Why we test this

0 of 1 deliberately invalid URLs returned HTTP 200.

AIR-4.6 Redirects resolve in a single hop PASS 1 pt
Why we test this

1 of 1 sampled URLs redirect.

AIR-4.7 Faceted, calendar, and parameterized URLs are controlled NOT SCORED —
AIR-4.8 Sitemap lastmod reflects real content changesNo sitemap URLs with lastmod values were found. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

No sitemap URLs with lastmod values were found.

AIR-4.9 Sitemap index split by type, with media sitemapsNo sitemap could be fetched or parsed. PROBLEM +1
What's wrong

No sitemap could be fetched or parsed.

AIR-4.10 Paginated series are coherently signaled NOT SCORED —
AIR-5.1 Author entity pages with credentialsNo Person entities appear anywhere in the sample. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

No Person entities appear anywhere in the sample.

AIR-5.2 Bylines linked to author entitiesNo substantive pages in the sample to check for a byline. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

No substantive pages in the sample to check for a byline.

AIR-5.3 reviewedBy on YMYL content NOT SCORED —
AIR-5.4 datePublished and dateModified are accurate0 of 1 pages carry a publication or modification date across 0 distinct dateModified values. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

0 of 1 pages carry a publication or modification date across 0 distinct dateModified values.

AIR-5.5 citation markup on primary-source references NOT SCORED —
AIR-5.6 C2PA Content Credentials on original assets NOT SCORED —
AIR-6.1 OpenAPI specification for public APIs NOT SCORED —
AIR-6.2 /.well-known/ discovery entries for agent capabilities NOT SCORED —
AIR-6.3 Form fields carry label, name, and autocomplete NOT SCORED —
AIR-6.4 No captchas on browse, search, or filter interactions PASS 2 pt
Why we test this

No search or filter surface in the sample returned a challenge.

AIR-7.1 Markdown companion for every canonical pageNo Markdown companions were probed. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

No Markdown companions were probed.

AIR-7.2 link rel=alternate advertises the Markdown version NOT SCORED —
AIR-7.3 Accept: text/markdown content negotiation0 of 1 URLs serve Markdown for Accept: text/markdown. PROBLEM +2
What's wrong

0 of 1 URLs serve Markdown for Accept: text/markdown.

AIR-7.4 Alternate representations are edge-cached NOT SCORED —
LI-1 HowTo on procedural content NOT SCORED —
LI-2 speakable on summaries and ledesNo speakable specification found on any sampled page. NOT SCORED —
What's wrong

No speakable specification found on any sampled page.

LI-3 IndexNow fires on publish and updateNo IndexNow key file was discoverable. The file is named after the key, which is not published, so this is 'not discoverable' rather than proof of absence. NOT SCORED —
What's wrong

No IndexNow key file was discoverable. The file is named after the key, which is not published, so this is 'not discoverable' rather than proof of absence.

LI-4 Editorial policy page referenced via publishingPrinciples0 of 0 Organization nodes reference publishingPrinciples. NOT SCORED —
What's wrong

0 of 0 Organization nodes reference publishingPrinciples.

LI-5 NLWeb endpoint exposed as an MCP server with an ask methodNo NLWeb endpoint was discoverable. NOT SCORED —
What's wrong

No NLWeb endpoint was discoverable.

LI-6 Domain MCP server over real content APIsNo domain MCP server or tool descriptor was discoverable. NOT SCORED —
What's wrong

No domain MCP server or tool descriptor was discoverable.

LI-7 /llms-full.txt where full-text inclusion is appropriate NOT SCORED —
BP-1 Critical flows complete without JS-only interactions NOT SCORED —
BP-2 Stable selectors on critical-flow elements NOT SCORED —
BP-3 GA4 channel group for AI assistant referrersWhether a channel group exists for AI assistant referrers is not visible from outside. Analytics presence is; the grouping is not. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

Whether a channel group exists for AI assistant referrers is not visible from outside. Analytics presence is; the grouping is not.

BP-4 Server-side tagging captures stripped referrersReconciliation between server-side and client-side numbers has to be attested. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

Reconciliation between server-side and client-side numbers has to be attested.

BP-5 Access log retention with a queryable storeLog retention and queryability are not observable from outside the site. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

Log retention and queryability are not observable from outside the site.

BP-6 Scheduled AI crawler activity report NOT SCORED —
BP-7 Fixed prompt panel run monthly across modelsAnswer-share tracking happens outside the site and must be attested. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

Answer-share tracking happens outside the site and must be attested.

BP-8 Extraction-fidelity baseline capturedNo extraction-fidelity baseline is captured by this version of the scanner, which makes no live model calls. NOT SCORED —
What we're measuring

No extraction-fidelity baseline is captured by this version of the scanner, which makes no live model calls.

BP-9 Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools verifiedNeither Search Console nor Bing Webmaster Tools verification was found. NOT SCORED —
What's wrong

Neither Search Console nor Bing Webmaster Tools verification was found.

Not applicable — 34 tests answered with a dash, excluded from the score: AIR-2.2, AIR-2.3, AIR-2.4, AIR-2.5, AIR-3.3, AIR-3.4, AIR-3.6, AIR-3.7, AIR-4.1, AIR-4.2, AIR-4.3, AIR-4.4, AIR-4.7, AIR-4.10, AIR-5.2, AIR-5.3, AIR-5.5, AIR-5.6, AIR-6.1, AIR-6.2, AIR-6.3, AIR-7.1, AIR-7.2, AIR-7.4, LI-1, LI-7, BP-1, BP-2, BP-3, BP-4, BP-5, BP-6, BP-7, BP-8.

By dimension

Where Sempra's 28 came from. Open a line to see its tests, worst first.

DimensionShare earnedEarnedScore
1 · Primary Indicators 6 20
Scored zero — 11 problems
AIR-1.2 Does your CDN let AI crawlers through?8 of 8 AI user-agents are rejected or challenged at the edge. PROBLEM
What's wrong

8 of 8 AI user-agents are rejected or challenged at the edge.

Even when robots.txt says yes, a firewall or bot-protection rule can turn assistants away before they reach your pages. We sent a request as each one and recorded what came back.

AIR-1.3 Is your page readable without a security challenge?1 of 1 sampled pages return an interactive challenge (Cloudflare Turnstile). PROBLEM
What's wrong

1 of 1 sampled pages return an interactive challenge (Cloudflare Turnstile).

A CAPTCHA or bot check on an ordinary page stops an assistant at the door. These belong on forms and logins, not on pages anyone can read.

AIR-1.4 Have you stated what AI may do with your content?No Content-Signal line in robots.txt. Missing: search, ai-input, ai-train. PROBLEM
What's wrong

No Content-Signal line in robots.txt. Missing: search, ai-input, ai-train.

There is now a machine-readable way to say whether AI may search, quote or train on your material. Having a position — any position — is the point.

AIR-1.5 Can a person read your AI policy?robots.txt carries no human-readable policy statement. PROBLEM
What's wrong

robots.txt carries no human-readable policy statement.

A few plain sentences in robots.txt saying what you permit. Journalists and lawyers read this file, and right now most sites say nothing.

AIR-1.7 Does this page declare its real address?0% of sampled pages emit a valid, self-consistent canonical. 1 have problems. PROBLEM
What's wrong

0% of sampled pages emit a valid, self-consistent canonical. 1 have problems.

A canonical link tells a machine which URL is the true one. Without it the same content can be treated as several competing pages.

AIR-1.8 Is your page structured so a machine can follow it?0% of sampled pages carry one main element, a wrapping article or section, and a nav. PROBLEM
What's wrong

0% of sampled pages carry one main element, a wrapping article or section, and a nav.

Meaningful sections rather than an undifferentiated wall of containers. It is the difference between a document and a soup of boxes.

AIR-1.9 Do your headings tell a clear story?0% of sampled pages have exactly one non-empty h1 and no skipped heading levels. 1 have no h1 PROBLEM
What's wrong

0% of sampled pages have exactly one non-empty h1 and no skipped heading levels. 1 have no h1

One main heading, then sub-headings in order. Assistants use headings to work out what a page is about and which part answers a question.

AIR-1.10 Do you publish a guide for AI assistants?/llms.txt returns HTTP 403. PROBLEM
What's wrong

/llms.txt returns HTTP 403.

A file at /llms.txt listing your most important pages. It is early and cheap, and it forces a useful conversation about what actually matters on your site.

AIR-1.11 Can a machine tell what your organization is?No JSON-LD nodes were found across the sample. PROBLEM
What's wrong

No JSON-LD nodes were found across the sample.

Structured data that links together — your organization, your site, this page — rather than a scattering of disconnected labels.

AIR-1.12 Can a machine be certain it is you?No sameAs links were found on Organization or Person nodes. PROBLEM
What's wrong

No sameAs links were found on Organization or Person nodes.

Links from your markup to authoritative records like Wikidata or ROR. Without one, an assistant is guessing which organization of your name it has found.

AIR-1.13 Can a machine find out who you are?0 of 7 organizational facts are present in the Organization markup: none. PROBLEM
What's wrong

0 of 7 organizational facts are present in the Organization markup: none.

Founding date, leadership, address, contact details, legal identifiers. Thin About pages are the most common weakness we see.

Full marks — 2 pass
AIR-1.1 Can AI crawlers reach your site? PASS
Why we test this

No robots.txt is published, so nothing is disallowed.

Your robots.txt file tells crawlers what they may read. A line left behind by a previous site or a copied template can quietly shut out the assistants people now use to find you.

AIR-1.6 Are you allowing assistants to quote you? PASS
Why we test this

No noarchive, nosnippet or max-snippet:0 directives found.

Some sites carry old settings that tell search engines not to show excerpts. Those same settings stop an assistant quoting your page in an answer.

2 · Rendering and Extraction 1 7
Scored zero — 1 problem
AIR-2.1 Primary content is present without JavaScriptRaw HTML contains 0% of rendered text on average across 1 URLs. PROBLEM
What's wrong

Raw HTML contains 0% of rendered text on average across 1 URLs.

Full marks — 1 pass
AIR-2.6 Key facts exist as HTML text, not only in images or PDFs PASS
Why we test this

No page in the sample looks like its facts live only in an image or a document.

3 · Structured Data and the Entity Graph 5 33
Scored zero — 1 problem
AIR-3.5 isAccessibleForFree, about, and mentions with entity references0 of 1 substantive pages declare isAccessibleForFree; 0 reference subject entities by identifier. PROBLEM
What's wrong

0 of 1 substantive pages declare isAccessibleForFree; 0 reference subject entities by identifier.

Partly scored — 1 needs work
AIR-3.1 JSON-LD is generated from mapped fields, not hardcodedSchema values track visible content across 0 templates. NEEDS WORK
What's half-done

Schema values track visible content across 0 templates.

Full marks — 2 pass
AIR-3.2 BreadcrumbList on every page below the homepage PASS
Why we test this

No pages below the homepage were sampled.

AIR-3.8 Schema validation of the structured data on the page PASS
Why we test this

0 nodes across 1 pages parse, carry what their types require, and hold well-formed values.

4 · Crawl, Index and Licensing Hygiene 2 17
Scored zero — 2 problems
AIR-4.8 Sitemap lastmod reflects real content changesNo sitemap URLs with lastmod values were found. PROBLEM
What's wrong

No sitemap URLs with lastmod values were found.

AIR-4.9 Sitemap index split by type, with media sitemapsNo sitemap could be fetched or parsed. PROBLEM
What's wrong

No sitemap could be fetched or parsed.

Full marks — 2 pass
AIR-4.5 Missing pages return 404 or 410 PASS
Why we test this

0 of 1 deliberately invalid URLs returned HTTP 200.

AIR-4.6 Redirects resolve in a single hop PASS
Why we test this

1 of 1 sampled URLs redirect.

5 · Authorship, Provenance, Freshness 0 0
Scored zero — 2 problems
AIR-5.1 Author entity pages with credentialsNo Person entities appear anywhere in the sample. PROBLEM
What's wrong

No Person entities appear anywhere in the sample.

AIR-5.4 datePublished and dateModified are accurate0 of 1 pages carry a publication or modification date across 0 distinct dateModified values. PROBLEM
What's wrong

0 of 1 pages carry a publication or modification date across 0 distinct dateModified values.

6 · Agent Interfaces 2 25
Full marks — 1 pass
AIR-6.4 No captchas on browse, search, or filter interactions PASS
Why we test this

No search or filter surface in the sample returned a challenge.

7 · Alternate Representations 0 0
Scored zero — 1 problem
AIR-7.3 Accept: text/markdown content negotiation0 of 1 URLs serve Markdown for Accept: text/markdown. PROBLEM
What's wrong

0 of 1 URLs serve Markdown for Accept: text/markdown.

What was read

1 page, sampled from this site's own sitemap and internal links. The cap is 32 — a ceiling, not a certainty: a site with fewer reachable pages yields fewer.

403 https://sempra.com/ Answered 403.

The receipt

Cohort
sp500
Source
List of S&P 500 companies (Wikipedia contributors, 2026-09-08)
Index
11.0, in effect 2026-09-24
Scanner
0.1.0
Scanned
2026-09-20T04:17:31.921764+00:00
Result hash
46aeebff28bdb6f07a785730455a6c20488ddda28a4191f2c3894341c01c9424
Basis
public-interest census: a declared bot with a published policy at https://readinessindex.io/bot, honoring robots.txt addressed to AIRBot, reading public pages only. No per-site permission was sought or given.

The hash is the SHA-256 of the full result.json, recorded when the scan finished rather than computed now. The raw evidence behind every line above — every response, cached — is retained and is a median 1.5 MB per site, so it is not served from here. Ask us for it if you want to check a number against the bytes it came from.

Think this is wrong? It might be. Tell us at hello@readinessindex.io and we will look, correct it if it is, and say so publicly either way.

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About these numbers. Points are whole numbers everywhere on this page. The arithmetic behind them is not — a test scores its weight times its band divided by four, so a row can earn 1.5 points and print as 2. Scores are computed from the exact figures and rounded once, at the end, never from the rounded rows. That means adding the points column up will not give you the score exactly. The rule is published in the standard.