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How AI assistants read paypal.com

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 PayPal; the catalogue page is for the people who choose it.

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Atlas Readinesssweptswept 2026-10-13

92/100

#1 of 849 rated Finance tools#10 of 13999 in the Atlas
  • Entity25/25
  • Machine-readable31.5/35
  • Retrieval access17/20
  • Footprintnot read
out of 80 of 100 points — footprint not read
What to fix firstfound in the sweep of 2026-10-13

7 retrieval crawlers are blocked on /affil/, /cgibin/, /il/cart/, /row/, /xclick-auction*

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

85/100

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

  • Audience34.1/40
  • Installsnot read
  • Referencesnot read
out of 40 of 100 points — installs and references 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 movesnot read
  • Shipsnot read
  • Hiringnot read
out of 30 of 100 points — content moves and ships and hiring not read
Against the fieldsweptreadiness, out of 100
  • PayPal92
  • Finance medianof 870 rated58
  • Atlas medianof 17367 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 itemQ483959Wikipedia article

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

  • Server-rendered words1.6kswept

    What a reader without JavaScript receives from the homepage.

  • Identity score90/100swept

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

Position in Financeswept853 swept

90/100

identity score

0identity score, 0-100100
59th percentile of 853 · median 90

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 PayPal's Atlas Readiness?

    92 of 100 on 2026-10-13, computed from four parts — entity, machine-readable, retrieval access, footprint — out of 80 of 100 points — footprint not read. It places #1 of 849 rated Finance tools.

  • Does PayPal let AI retrieval bots in?

    Partly. On 2026-10-13, paypal.com fenced some paths from retrieval crawlers.

  • Does PayPal publish an llms.txt?

    Yes: paypal.com/llms.txt was present on 2026-10-13.

  • Is PayPal a Wikidata entity?

    Yes: Q483959, 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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