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More than 1,700 educational travel websites, audited. More than a quarter cannot be read properly by AI.

Under-25s use AI assistants more than any other age group, and they ask hard questions: is this organisation legitimate, is it ethical, is it accredited. If AI cannot read your site, you never hear about the enquiry you lost.

Languages measured: English, German, Spanish.

All organisations

>1,700
educational travel websites audited
27%
carry a critical fault
20%
have a server refusing an AI crawler
21%
publish an llms.txt

Median readiness score 67 out of 100. 5% block a crawler deliberately in robots.txt; 6% explicitly welcome AI crawlers by name. Audited 8 August 2026.

Split by programme type

Most at risk — share carrying a critical fault

Jobs Abroad 32% · Language School 30% · High School 26%

Healthiest

TEFL Courses 14% · Adventure Travel 19% · Degree Abroad 21%

Programme types overlap and not every organisation is categorised, so this compares groups rather than dividing up the whole set.

The gap between programme types is wider than the gap between good and bad websites.

TEFL course providers are the healthiest group we measured: 14% carry a critical fault. Jobs Abroad providers are the least healthy at 32% — more than twice the rate — and a quarter of them have a server refusing AI crawlers outright.

Being in a strong category is not protection. Adventure Travel has the joint highest median score of any group, and still one in five has a server refusing a crawler. A good website and a readable website are not the same thing.

Free score. A person runs it, not a robot.

Enter your website address and we will run the technical audit on your real site — every AI crawler tested, twice. You get your score and the single biggest thing holding you back, within one week.

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We run the technical audit by hand and reply within one working day with your score and the single biggest thing holding you back. No account, no card, no automated sales sequence.

How we use your details

Four out of five sites we audit have at least one fault we can name. The typical site has two or three. The free score gives you your score and the most serious one, in plain English, with the fix. The rest come with the full audit — along with the half of the picture the free score cannot see: whether AI assistants actually recommend you, and who they recommend instead.

What the full audit covers

  • 60 real questions from students and their parents, across 5 AI models in 3 languages.
  • Every question asked three times.
  • How AI answers the legitimacy and ethics questions about your programmes.
  • Which providers get recommended instead of you, and how often.
  • Which directories and review sites the models actually trust.
  • Eight prioritised fixes, ranked by effort and likely impact.
  • Written recommendations from me, not a dashboard export.

The five assistants we ask: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Mistral. The first four search the web while they answer; Mistral answers from what it already knows. That contrast is deliberate — it separates what AI can find about you from what it remembers, and the gap between those two is usually the most useful number in the report.

Read what we can and cannot measure, and why we report the limits — our method →

Find out how AI answers the questions your applicants are already asking.

Start with the free check above, or ask us a question.

The audit is $950, or $712 with an annual plan. See what’s included →

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