AI search optimization in Villafranca di Verona: be the source an AI quotes
When a Villafranca customer asks an AI assistant where to eat near the airport or which studio to pick, the answer is pulled from sites the assistant can read. Here the average AI readability score is 69.9 out of 100, a touch above Verona's 68.9. The gap is specific, though: the llms.txt file is missing on seven sites in ten, and none of the 581 sites we read publishes an ARD manifest. NFW Web Studio builds sites that machines can read, works through each of the eleven points of the score, and serves businesses across Italy and Europe, meeting clients in the Verona province in person.
What does an AI assistant need from a Villafranca site?
It needs to read the page without a heavy script, to find who you are and what you do stated plainly, and to find a file that describes the site in order. Most of that is ordinary web work done properly, not a new kind of site.
The points that move the score are small and specific: an llms.txt that lists the main pages, structured data that matches your public listing, a robots.txt that lets the AI crawlers in on purpose, and an ARD manifest that states what the site offers.
- A plain description of the business in the first lines of the home page.
- An llms.txt file that lists the pages worth reading.
- Structured data matching the Google profile, hours and phone included.
- A robots.txt that states the AI crawler rules rather than leaving them implicit.
- Content that appears in the HTML, not after a script has run.
How is the AI readability work priced?
It is part of the website or of the SEO work, not a separate product: the points are set while the site is built, and where a site already exists we add the missing ones in a single pass. We cost less than an agency because we work more efficiently, not because we do less.
The full method is on our SEO services page, and the points are explained on the AI Crawlability Score page.
Sites built so AI can read them
Our own site is built for assistants and search engines: you can run the free audit on it and read every point of the score.
Which AI readability points are missing in Villafranca?
Eleven points, each with its weight. Here are the four an AI reads first, and where Villafranca's sites fall behind.
- sites with llms.txt in place
- 28.7%
- Weight 10 points: the file that tells an assistant what you publish and where it sits.
- sites with legible structured data
- 55.6%
- Weight 15 points. 58.9% declare some Schema.org type, but full business data appears in 36 of 600 listings.
- sites whose robots.txt lets AI crawlers in
- 84.3%
- Weight 15 points: the file must not shut out the AI crawlers.
- sites with a published ARD manifest
- 0%
- Weight 5 points. Of the 581 sites read, none publishes one.
Data from: Villafranca di Verona sites, October 2026: eleven AI readability checks run on 581 working 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.
Where an AI reads a Villafranca site well, and where it stops
Readable without JavaScript on 94.8% of the sites measured. The real work sits in the points an assistant looks for in dedicated files and data.
The technical base holds, the signals for AI are thin
Readable without JavaScript 94.8%, HTTPS 90.7%, robots.txt open to AI 84.3%, sitemap 75.0%, canonical 73.1%, structured data 55.6%, llms.txt 28.7%, ARD manifest 0%.
A site that reads well but does not describe itself is quotable only by chance. An llms.txt file and a tidy business record take little time and move the score more than most people expect.
- Villafranca di Verona
- Average of 108 cities in Italy
| Content visible without JavaScript | 94.8% | 94.3% |
|---|---|---|
| robots.txt open to AI crawlers | 84.3% | 83.7% |
| Structured data on the home page | 55.6% | 56.6% |
| llms.txt file | 28.7% | 24.9% |
| Sitemap | 75% | 77.3% |
| ARD manifest for AI agents | 0% | 0% |
| Home page canonical | 73.1% | 73.2% |
| HTTPS | 90.7% | 89.3% |
| Lighthouse SEO score | 92.3% | 91.9% |
| Home page meta description | 67.3% | 66.3% |
| Home page title | 93.6% | 93.5% |
Eleven points, weighed: Villafranca against a site built this way
Lined up point by point: on the left how Villafranca's sites stand, on the right what a site built with this care reaches.
| What is measured | A typical Villafranca site | A site written by NFW Web Studio |
|---|---|---|
| llms.txt published | 28.7% of sites | Always, kept up to date with new pages |
| Home page structured markup | 55.6% of sites | Always, with the full business record |
| Complete business data | 6.0% of listings that answer | Always: name, address, contact and opening times |
| ARD manifest on the domain | 0% of sites | Published on our own site |
| Crawler access granted in robots.txt | 84.3% of sites | Always, with crawler rules stated |
The same eleven points, weighted as in version 2.0.0, are checked by the free SEO audit.
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