IT Brief New Zealand · Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin, News Editor, TechDay · 29 October 2026
AIready in the news
On 29 October 2026, TechDay NZ published the same story on four of its New Zealand technology titles, covering AIready's benchmark of how readable NZ business websites are to AI crawlers.
Coverage
ChannelLife New Zealand · Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin, News Editor, TechDay · 29 October 2026
eCommerceNews New Zealand · Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin, News Editor, TechDay · 29 October 2026
SecurityBrief New Zealand · Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin, News Editor, TechDay · 29 October 2026
What the coverage reported
- Median AI crawler-readability score of 55/100 across 158 website audits (scans August to October 2026).
- 28% of audited sites scored 70 or above, 51% scored 40 to 69, and 21% (33 sites) scored below 40.
- Three common blockers: crawler access restrictions (such as web application firewalls and bot-management rules), client-side JavaScript rendering gaps, and missing Schema.org JSON-LD.
"Business leaders frequently assume that having an aesthetically modern website means AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can easily read and cite their business."
These are the figures TechDay NZ reported. AIready's live benchmark has since grown to 355 NZ websites (as at 26 October 2026, median 55/100). See the latest numbers on the NZ AI Readiness Benchmark and the analysis. A readiness score measures how easily the AIready scanner can access and understand a site; it does not prove that AI tools will cite or recommend it.