What are AI crawlers and how do you recognise them?

AI crawlers are automated programs that visit web pages to read their content, and they can be recognised by the user agent shown in the server logs.

Each AI assistant or AI-based search engine uses its own crawlers, with different names and purposes: some collect content for training, others read pages to answer a request. To recognise them you analyse the server logs, where the user agent of each visit appears. In Cantù, in the province of Como, we manage our clients' servers and can read this data together with the rest of the website's configuration.

How to recognise them

Three points to check

For companies in Como, Brianza and Milan, reading crawlers always starts from the website's real data.

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The robots.txt file is configured by stating, for each recognised crawler, the sections of the website it may read and those that are excluded. Rules should be checked after every change. In Cantù we manage it as part of the development and hosting of websites for companies in Como, Brianza and Milan.

The llms.txt file is a proposed text file that summarises a website's content for language models. It is not an established standard and guarantees nothing: we assess it case by case for companies in Como and Brianza, never in place of clear content.

A slow or JavaScript-dependent website may be read incompletely by crawlers, which do not always run scripts. Serving the main content in the HTML reduces the risk. We look after the speed and rendering of bespoke websites for companies in Como and Milan.

The clearest page formats have an explicit question, a short answer at the start and well-ordered sections with headings and lists. We use them in websites developed in Cantù, in the province of Como, for companies between Brianza, Milan and Lugano. The structure helps both people and automated systems.

Organization and LocalBusiness structured data describe in the website's code the name, address, contacts and field of activity in schema.org format, readable by automated systems. For a company in Cantù or Como they help state the location and service area precisely, without guaranteeing citations.

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