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What a machine reading this site receives: identity files, schema, crawler policy, the entity behind the name. Read weekly by a crawler, no model call. For the people who run Balford; the catalogue page is for the people who choose it.

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Atlas Readinesssweptswept 2026-10-13

74/100

#121 of 340 rated Support tools#4621 of 13481 in the Atlas
  • Entity15/25
  • Machine-readable32.6/35
  • Retrieval access17/20
  • Footprint9.5/20
all four parts read
What to fix firstfound in the sweep of 2026-10-13

6 retrieval crawlers are blocked on /erp/

high

The heaviest thing this reading found wrong, named in the words our fix list uses. Read off the site itself, not from a model.

Usedsweptswept 2026-10-13

20/100

Does anybody use it: audience (Tranco list, Chrome UX report, estimated organic visits), installs from registries, referring domains. Never votes, never reviews.

  • Audience0/40
  • Installsnot read
  • References14.2/30
out of 70 of 100 points — installs not read
Alivesweptswept 2026-10-13

100/100

Is anybody home: the homepage answers, the content moves, something ships, somebody hires. Each part a dated reading from a public place; a part not read is left out and the total rescaled.

  • Answers30/30
  • Content moves30/30
  • Ships25/25
  • Hiringnot read
out of 85 of 100 points — hiring not read
Against the fieldsweptreadiness, out of 100
  • Balford74
  • Support medianof 349 rated59
  • Atlas medianof 16480 rated60
What the sweep readsweptswept 2026-10-13
  • Retrieval botspartialverify

    Whether the bots that decide citations are let in. Training bots are a separate list and are not counted here.

  • llms.txtyesverify

    A plain-text index at /llms.txt. Optional; read by some tools.

  • Organization schemayes

    schema.org Organization markup on the homepage, which is what a resolver reads a company's name and links from.

  • Wikidata itemQ141520896

    Matched on the official website, never on the name. The substrate under the knowledge graph an engine resolves names against.

  • Server-rendered words947swept

    What a reader without JavaScript receives from the homepage.

  • Identity score93/100swept

    The analyzer's crawl-only section, 0-100: identity files, schema, crawler policy, sitemap. Not the analyzer score.

  • Footprint1 GitHub stars
Position in Supportswept345 swept

93/100

identity score

0identity score, 0-100100
63th percentile of 345 · median 93

Not measured with the analyzer.

The full run asks four engines about this company by name. It runs on request, not on a schedule.

Questions this page answers
  • What is Balford's Atlas Readiness?

    74 of 100 on 2026-10-13, computed from four parts — entity, machine-readable, retrieval access, footprint — all four parts read. It places #121 of 340 rated Support tools.

  • Does Balford let AI retrieval bots in?

    Partly. On 2026-10-13, balford.net fenced some paths from retrieval crawlers.

  • Does Balford publish an llms.txt?

    Yes: balford.net/llms.txt was present on 2026-10-13.

  • Is Balford a Wikidata entity?

    Yes: Q141520896, matched on its official website.

How to read a row

swept
Read by a crawler: HTTP and parsing, no model call. Every tool, every week.
measured
The full analyzer run, asked of four engines. Shown only where the company agreed to show it.

Can a retrieval engine find, resolve and quote this site? Four parts, each read by the sweep, each shown beside the total.

Entity 25 · Machine-readable 35 · Retrieval access 20 · Footprint 20

A part that was never read is left out and the total is rescaled to what was. It is never counted as zero.

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