Generative engine optimization in San Bonifacio: getting cited by AI
AI assistants cite the sites they can read. In San Bonifacio the average AI readability score is 68.3 out of 100, under the national average of 69.6. The technical base holds: most sites serve their content without JavaScript. What is missing are the signals that tell an AI who you are and what you do. NFW Web Studio works on those points, from the llms.txt file to structured data, for businesses in the eastern Verona area and across Italy and Europe.
Why does generative engine optimization matter for a San Bonifacio business?
A person who asks an AI assistant for a supplier or a tradesperson gets three or four names, not a list of ten links. A business those systems cannot read does not make it into the answer, however good its work is.
Firms that sell to other firms get technical questions. Where a buyer wants a supplier, a data sheet or a quote, the assistant's answer carries real weight.
- An llms.txt file that sums up who you are and what you offer.
- Business data, address and opening hours, in structured form.
- A robots.txt that does not shut the door on AI crawlers.
- Pages that say what they do, without depending on JavaScript.
What would making San Bonifacio's site readable by AI take?
Part of the work is technical and takes little time; part is text and data. Together they cost a fraction of what an agency asks for the same result, and they can be done on the site you already have. The method and the starting points are on the AI search optimization service page.
Our own site, measured on the same score
The score we use for San Bonifacio is the one we run on our own site: its points are explained one by one on the method page.
How much an AI can read of San Bonifacio's sites
The score has eleven points with different weights, under the 2.0.0 rules. We computed it across the town's working sites.
- average score, out of 100
- 68.3
- Median 74.8: half the sites sit above it, half below.
- sites carrying an llms.txt file
- 22.5%
- A ten point item that few sites have yet: 87 of 386 carry one.
- sites publishing an ARD manifest
- 0%
- The newest five point item: no site measured declares one yet.
- sites with structured data
- 56.7%
- A fifteen point item, and the one that most separates a described site from a silent one.
Taken from the AI readability score in the report on San Bonifacio's web, using the 2.0.0 rules over 386 sites.
The figures come from Overture Maps listings: many businesses are not mapped or do not list a website, so the shares describe the listings, not every business in the town. How we read the data.
Which points of the score matter most in San Bonifacio?
Serving content without JavaScript and letting AI crawlers in are the heavy points, and most sites pass them. The light points decide who gets quoted.
The site reads well, but does not introduce itself
Readable without JavaScript: 94.4%; robots.txt open to AI: 80.6%; HTTPS 86%; sitemap 75.6%; structured data 56.7%; llms.txt 22.5%; ARD manifest 0%.
A page a machine can read but cannot place stays a name in a list. Structured data and llms.txt are a few hours of work that move the score, with no new site needed.
- San Bonifacio
- Average of 108 cities in Italy
| Content visible without JavaScript | 94.4% | 94.3% |
|---|---|---|
| robots.txt open to AI crawlers | 80.6% | 83.7% |
| Structured data on the home page | 56.7% | 56.6% |
| llms.txt file | 22.5% | 24.9% |
| Sitemap | 75.6% | 77.3% |
| ARD manifest for AI agents | 0% | 0% |
| Home page canonical | 72.8% | 73.2% |
| HTTPS | 86.3% | 89.3% |
| Lighthouse SEO score | 92.7% | 91.9% |
| Home page meta description | 64.8% | 66.3% |
| Home page title | 93.3% | 93.5% |
San Bonifacio's typical AI score against a site of ours
The same score, the same points: the San Bonifacio column comes from the report, ours from the sites we measured.
| What we measure | The typical San Bonifacio site | An NFW Web Studio site |
|---|---|---|
| The llms.txt file for AI | 22.5% of sites | Available, with the key pages in markdown |
| ARD manifest on the site | 0% of sites | Published on our own site |
| Structured data present | 56.7% of sites | Always, with LocalBusiness and hours |
| robots.txt and AI crawlers | 80.6% of sites | Always, one line per crawler |
| Average AI readability score | 68.3 out of 100 | Checked with the same tool, on our pages |
The score is our own measure, not an industry standard: its points are explained one by one on the AI Crawlability Score method.
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Questions on AI visibility in San Bonifacio
Let's see what an AI can read on your site.
Half an hour on the score point by point, and what we would change, in person in the eastern Verona area or by video call. Then a written proposal.