A new analysis from SE Ranking suggests the llms.txt file isn’t delivering measurable benefits yet.
After examining roughly 300,000 domains, the company found no relationship between having llms.txt and how often a domain is cited in major LLM answers.
What The Data Says
Adoption Is Thin
SE Ranking’s crawl found llms.txt on 10.13% of domains. In other words, nearly nine out of ten sites they measured haven’t implemented it.
That low usage matters because the format is sometimes described as an emerging baseline for AI visibility. The data…

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