Advocacy Grade

zapier.com

Evidence collected August 31, 2026 · 59 polite, robots.txt-respecting requests · every claim cites what it saw

No letter grade — withheld, not failed

No letter grade is issued because this tool could not read this site's content structure: of the 60000 URLs in its sitemap, 48039 (80.1%) could not be classified into content sections by the reader. That is a limit of this tool's reading, not evidence that the company lacks content — a grade computed from the readable sliver would report a gap in this tool as their failure. What could be observed is scored below at reduced confidence.

65.6/100
Content Supply
reduced confidence
88.1/100
Shareability
reduced confidence
60.3/100
Employee & Culture
reduced confidence
91.2/100
AI Discoverability

Read this before the numbers

This tool was built in a few days, on a stack of stated assumptions. I didn't have the time — or the inside knowledge of what buyers in this category actually optimize for — to be certain these are the metrics that matter most. The four categories and their weights are editorial judgment, not measurement: nobody has proven that these things cause employees to post, and I don't claim otherwise.

Where the evidence comes from: three of the four categories read only what your company has published on its own public site — the part you can fix on Monday. Half of Employee & Culture comes from somewhere else: aggregate counts of how many of your people posted in the last 90 days, from a licensed third-party index of public professional-network activity. Nothing here was scraped from LinkedIn by this tool. Those counts are records in an index, not a census — they undercount, they undercount small companies most, and you can't check them yourself — so each one says so where it appears, a zero is reported as "none in the index" and never as "nobody posts," and a company with fewer than 25 people in the index gets the number reported but not scored. No individual is named anywhere in this report.

To prioritize speed, this particular report was loaded using cached data; it was generated from evidence originally collected on August 31, 2026 rather than live. Reports are cached for 30 days. Every observation below is dated and cited.

What you can hold me to: every number cites its evidence and says where it came from, nothing unseen is guessed at, robots.txt is respected on every fetch, and when this tool can't read a site it says so instead of issuing a grade.

What was found — most fixable first

Ranked by impact × ease of fixing, not by category. Counts describe the pages actually read, and each finding cites them.

Opportunity

Your job listings are invisible without JavaScript

Your careers page (https://zapier.com/jobs) returns HTML, but the job listings are injected client-side — a plain reader sees a page with no roles on it. Machine readers that do not execute JavaScript (many crawlers and AI assistants) cannot see that you are hiring.

Evidence — careers page probes
  • https://zapier.com/jobs

The fix: Server-render at least the role titles and locations, or publish jobs in structured data (schema.org JobPosting).

Issue

Only 14% of your dated content was touched in the last year

996 of 7,107 URLs with credible lastmod dates were updated in the last 365 days. A supply this static gives employees little new to share.

Evidence: sitemap lastmod analysis.

The fix: A regular publishing cadence — even monthly — matters more for advocacy than volume.

What's already working

Working

21 of 24 sampled pages name their author

87.5% of sampled content pages carry a named human author — employees are already visible in the work, which is the raw material of advocacy.

Evidence: content page sample — 21 of 24 sampled pages.

Working

All tracked AI user-agents may read your site

robots.txt permits all 25 tracked AI user-agents at the site root, so AI search engines and assistants that honor robots.txt can read and cite you.

Evidence: robots.txt.

Working

Your homepage share card is complete

The homepage carries og:title, og:description and og:image, so a shared homepage link renders a full preview card.

Evidence: homepage HTML.

What could not be seen

Anything the reader could not observe is listed here rather than guessed at or silently skipped.

Not visible

The reader could not classify most of your site

Of the 60,000 URLs in your sitemap, 48,039 (80.1%) could not be sorted into content sections by the path-based classifier — the unread majority sits under paths like /automations (42860), /mcp (2501), /find-apps (2500), /agents (102), /interfaces (46), /roles (10). That is a limit of this tool's reading, not evidence you lack content, so no letter grade is issued and the volume-based scores below are floors, not measurements.

Evidence — sitemap URL classification
  • /automations — 42860 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /mcp — 2501 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /find-apps — 2500 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /agents — 102 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /interfaces — 46 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /roles — 10 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /page — 5 URL(s) that could not be classified
  • /developer-platform — 4 URL(s) that could not be classified

For the record

Note

llms.txt is present

An llms.txt file is served. Reported for completeness: Google has said it does not support llms.txt, no major AI vendor has confirmed consuming it, and large-scale studies found no correlation with AI citations. I record it and weight it at zero.

Evidence: llms.txt fetch.

How the numbers break down

Weights: Content Supply 30% · Shareability 25% · Employee & Culture 25% (half what the site says, half what employees do) · AI Discoverability 20%. The weights are editorial judgment about what an advocacy program draws on — not the result of a study. Every row cites the observation behind it and says whether it was read from your site or from the licensed index.

Content Supply — 65.6/100 (reduced confidence)

SignalPointsWhat was observed
Volume floor40/406847 shareable pages after collapsing localized duplicates
Section diversity24/305 shareable section(s): blog, case_study, resource, guide_ebook, news_press
Shareable share4.6/3011.4% of the canonical inventory is shareable content
Recency adjustment-2.9/8996 of 7107 dated URLs updated in the last year (14%)

Low-coverage caveat: 48039 of 60000 sitemap URLs (80.1%) could not be classified, so this score describes only the 6847 page(s) that could be read and section-sorted. It is a floor, not a measurement of the whole site.

Shareability — 88.1/100 (reduced confidence)

SignalPointsWhat was observed
Open Graph image — without one, a shared link renders as a bare grey box32.1/3522 of 24 sampled pages (91.7%)
Open Graph title on the shared card14.4/1523 of 24 sampled pages (95.8%)
Open Graph description on the shared card14.4/1523 of 24 sampled pages (95.8%)
A visible share control on the page22.5/3018 of 24 sampled pages (75%)
Twitter/X card tags (near-zero weight: X falls back to Open Graph)2.8/322 of 24 sampled pages (91.7%)
Canonical URL (near-zero weight: SEO hygiene, not a sharing condition)2/224 of 24 sampled pages (100%)

Low-coverage caveat: 48039 of 60000 sitemap URLs (80.1%) could not be classified, so this score describes only the 6847 page(s) that could be read and section-sorted. It is a floor, not a measurement of the whole site.

Employee & Culture — 60.3/100 (reduced confidence)

SignalPointsWhat was observed
What the site says (50 of 100)
Culture / life-at pages0/150 culture page(s) in the canonical inventory
Careers page reachable7.5/7.5A careers page was found and retrieved
Careers depth2.5/7.51 careers URL(s) in the sitemap
Named authors on content11/12.587.5% of sampled pages carry a named author
Employee-story signals0/7.5No culture URLs existed to sample, so no employee-story signal could be checked
What employees do (50 of 100)
Employees posting (last 90 days)19.5/25141 of 809 indexed employees posted in the last 90 days (17.4%). licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable); 809 of 1521 employees covered.
Decision-makers posting11.5/1531 decision-makers posted in the last 90 days (3.8% of indexed employees). licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable).
Company page posting cadence8.4/10120 company post(s) in the last 90 days in the index. licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable).

A qualitative read of the careers page (boilerplate vs. real human stories) is not included in this number.

Half of this category is measured from employee posting activity in a licensed third-party index (809 of 1521 employees covered). Those counts are records in a third-party index, a lower bound the visitor cannot verify independently; the other half is what the website itself shows.

Low-coverage caveat: 48039 of 60000 sitemap URLs (80.1%) could not be classified, so this score describes only the 6847 page(s) that could be read and section-sorted. It is a floor, not a measurement of the whole site.

AI Discoverability — 91.2/100

SignalPointsWhat was observed
AI crawler access45/45All 25 tracked AI user-agents are permitted at the site root
Content-Signal coherence15/15Content-Signal "ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes" is consistent with the crawl directives.
Structured data31.2/408 schema.org type(s) on the homepage; 70.8% of sampled content pages carry Article schema
llms.txt0/0Present. Scored at zero weight deliberately: Google has said it does not support llms.txt, no major AI vendor has confirmed consuming it, and large-scale studies found no correlation with AI citations.

robots.txt compliance is voluntary and advisory. This reports the declared policy; it is not a claim that any crawler was actually blocked.