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stepto.net scores 72/100 for AI Readiness

AI Software Development & Nearshore Teams (stepto.net) is a software industry site; Kuroma measured its AI Readiness at 72/100 (grade A), audited 20 Aug 2026. Its strongest area is Technical Optimization (80) and its weakest is AI Readiness (67); the biggest single gap is Structured Data Quality at 25/100 (7 JSON-LD scripts. Schema types: WebSite, Organization, FAQPage, Service, ItemList, WebPage, LocalBusiness). That places it in the top quartile of the 3,299 Technology sites Kuroma has audited.

Audited URL: https://stepto.net

72/100
Grade
A

The most points to recover are in Citation-Worthiness: it scored 30/100 on a check worth 7.5% of the total, which takes 5.3 points off the overall score.

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Updated 25 days ago

Top 25% in Technology Median 46 · Top quartile 53 · across 3,299 audited sites in Technology

Is stepto.net ready for AI search?

Largely yes: stepto.net scores 72/100 (grade A). The remaining fixes are Make This Page’s Facts Extractable and Increase Citation-Worthy Content.

Category scores

On-Page Content 25% of the score 75
Technical Optimization 20% of the score 80
Authority Signals 25% of the score 68
AI Readiness 30% of the score 67

Top fixes, ranked by points recovered

Ranked by each check's share of the overall score times how far it fell short, so the biggest number is the biggest win, not the lowest score.

  1. Increase Citation-Worthy Content up to +5.3 pts

    On https://stepto.net · AI Readiness → Citation-Worthiness, scored 30/100

    • Conduct original research or surveys
    • Include specific statistics with sources
    • Add expert quotes and interviews
  2. Make This Page’s Facts Extractable up to +5 pts

    On https://stepto.net · On-Page Content → Structured Data Quality, scored 25/100

    • Turn any comparison or specification into a table with a header row — tables are the most extractable structure on a page
  3. Add External Citations & References up to +4.1 pts

    On https://stepto.net · Authority Signals → External Citations & References, scored 55/100

    • Use citation language like "according to..." or "research shows..."
    • Add a references or sources section
  4. Improve Crawlability & AI Crawler Access up to +3.8 pts

    On https://stepto.net · Technical Optimization → Crawlability & Accessibility, scored 71/100

    • 19 of 69 links cannot be followed by a crawler
    • Training-data crawlers blocked by policy choice: Bytespider. This is a content-licensing decision with no AI search visibility cost, so it is not scored.
    • Informational: robots.txt references legacy AI crawler token(s): anthropic-ai. Vendors no longer document these; migrate to the current tokens (for Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User).
    • This page opens 25 distinct paths into the rest of the site; linking to more of it gives crawlers more to find
    • Replace placeholder links (href="#", javascript:) with real URLs or remove them
  5. Add Trust Signals up to +2.3 pts

    On https://stepto.net · Authority Signals → Trust & Brand Signals, scored 75/100

    • Add customer testimonials or reviews

The 17 checks scored on this page

Every check this audit scored, with what it found on the page. 2 more checks were not scored on this page and are listed below with no score.

On-Page Content 25% of the score

  • Content Depth & Comprehensiveness Pass 98/100

    9.7% of the overall score

    Found: 1863 words, 48 paragraphs, 10 lists, 25 images (25 with alt text)

  • Question Coverage & FAQ Presence Not applicable

    Not scored on this page; its weight was spread across the other checks in this category

    FAQ schema present. 16 question headings. 1 questions detected in content

  • Structured Data Quality Needs work 25/100

    6.7% of the overall score

    7 JSON-LD scripts. Schema types: WebSite, Organization, FAQPage, Service, ItemList, WebPage, LocalBusiness

  • AI Readability Score Pass 84/100

    4.5% of the overall score

    Average 10 words/sentence. 9 long sentences. Has text formatting.

  • Heading Hierarchy Pass 95/100

    4.1% of the overall score

    H1: 1, H2: 9, H3: 25. Proper hierarchy.

  • Media Accessibility Not applicable

    Not scored on this page; its weight was spread across the other checks in this category

    Measures whether images, video, and charts have text equivalents AI can read.

    • 24 images have alt text too short to describe what they show ("StepTo", "StepTo", "Comtrade").
    • 1 images have no caption, so AI can't read the takeaway of a chart or diagram without one.

Technical Optimization 20% of the score

  • Schema Markup Completeness Pass 100/100

    1% of the overall score

    7 valid schemas, has Organization, has OpenGraph

  • Page Performance Indicators Pass 90/100

    2% of the overall score

    3 render-blocking resources. 967 elements for 1863 words

  • Mobile Optimization Pass 100/100

    4% of the overall score

    Has viewport. 21 responsive images. has theme-color

  • Crawlability & Accessibility Partial 71/100

    13% of the overall score

    HTTPS enabled. Has canonical. Indexable. All scored AI crawlers allowed. 19 placeholder links

    • 19 of 69 links cannot be followed by a crawler
    • Training-data crawlers blocked by policy choice: Bytespider. This is a content-licensing decision with no AI search visibility cost, so it is not scored.
    • Informational: robots.txt references legacy AI crawler token(s): anthropic-ai. Vendors no longer document these; migrate to the current tokens (for Anthropic: ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User).

Authority Signals 25% of the score

  • E-E-A-T Signals Pass 77/100

    7% of the overall score

    Experience: 7/10. Expertise: 24/25. Authority: 16/25. Trust: 17/25. Has author

  • External Citations & References Partial 55/100

    9% of the overall score

    8 external links, 0 citation phrases, 13 statistics. No references section.

  • Trust & Brand Signals Pass 75/100

    9% of the overall score

    Present: About page, Publisher schema (8 identity properties), Privacy Policy, Legal notice, Contact, Social profiles (1)

AI Readiness 30% of the score

  • Answer Box Potential Pass 81/100

    7.2% of the overall score

    26 of 36 headings open a quotable passage, 2 definitions, 0 comparison structures, FAQ schema

  • Citation-Worthiness Needs work 30/100

    7.5% of the overall score

    0 original data indicators, 8 percentages, 0 quotes.

  • Content Freshness Pass 85/100

    5.7% of the overall score

    References current year. Last modified: 8/3/2026

  • Unique Value Proposition Partial 69/100

    5.1% of the overall score

    8 of 123 passages carry a figure, 4 set two figures against each other, 4 named versions or models.

  • AI Discoverability Not measured 73/100

    3% of the overall score

    Score: 73/100

  • Raw HTML Availability Pass 100/100

    1.5% of the overall score

    1863 words readable without JavaScript

This audit measures citation readiness: how easily AI engines can crawl, extract, and quote these pages. It cannot see the off-site brand footprint (mentions, reviews, third-party coverage) that gates whether AI engines retrieve a brand at all; Kuroma's visibility scans and off-site signals track that side. How the score works

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