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Basic scanRetail storefront/Scanned 8 Sept 2026, 16:14 UTC/1 browser pass
Nike blocks three major AI crawlers at the network edge despite welcoming them in robots.txt, while product pages remain inaccessible to automated shoppers.
Ordered by what the evidence says is costing most. Written for whoever owns the site, not whoever builds it.
4 pieces of evidence and the recommended fix are recorded for this issue, with notes written from your own pages.
This is a basic scan, so it raises the three issues the deterministic evidence supports. A deep scan sends two agents over the site and raises up to ten, each with cited evidence and the screens to prove it.
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The score and the audit trail stay public. The evidence and the files open with an account.
The audit trail. Not measured is not zero.
Machine discoverability
Nike publishes a sitemap with 113 URLs and serves structured data (5 schema.org types) on the homepage to all automated clients. However, the network edge refuses requests from gptbot, perplexitybot and oai-searchbot despite robots.txt.
4 observations recorded.
Programmatic onboarding
No API documentation is linked from the homepage, and no OpenAPI spec exists at any of the 6 standard paths checked. Nike offers no programmatic route for agents to browse or purchase products.
3 observations recorded.
Pricing legibility
Eight prices appear in the homepage HTML, but no product pages could be reached to measure structured pricing data. The homepage shows prices for promotional items, but the full catalogue pricing remains unmeasured because product links.
2 observations recorded.
Agent-aware instrumentation
No MCP manifest exists at any of the 3 standard paths checked. Nike has not published machine-readable instructions for how agents should interact with the site.
4 observations recorded.
Machine-fetchable trust
The returns policy and shipping policy both read as plain text at their published URLs and are accessible to automated clients. However, neither policy is embedded in structured data on product pages, and no security.txt file is published.
3 observations recorded.
Commercial rails
Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
4 observations recorded.
Steps to first value
Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
1 observation recorded.
Required fields
Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
1 observation recorded.
Verification walls
Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
1 observation recorded.
Error recovery
Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
1 observation recorded.
It got through 8 of 17.
The agent got through 8 of 17 requests, but could not ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names. It came up empty on 8 other checks too. That is enough missing for a machine to give up before it reaches a purchase.