Scan report ·

patagonia.com

Invisible. Agents can't meaningfully engage with this storefront.

E
19 / 98
Invisible
Evaluated coverage: 98/100 applicable points
Aisle Pro · Remediation packet
Every fix this scan flagged, one card at a time: ranked by points per effort, with copy-paste snippets, per-fix downloads, and a plan your AI coding agent can execute.
Discoverability
E
2 / 20
Machine Readability
E
1 / 20
Transactability
E
1 / 20
Agent Posture
A
13 / 15
Trust Signals
E
2 / 10
Agent-Native Content
E
0 / 13

Narrative

Patagonia scores 19/98 and lands in the Invisible band, which is remarkable for a brand of this scale. The scanner could not resolve robots.txt, sitemap.xml, cart, checkout, or a single product page with structured data or a raw-HTML price, meaning an AI agent arriving at patagonia.com has effectively nothing to parse and nowhere to transact. What's left is a strong network posture protecting a storefront that is invisible to the machines it's protecting itself from.

Where the points went

ProblemPoints lostWhat an agent hits
No Product schema on any sampled PDP6Agent cannot identify the item as a product, let alone extract SKU or price
No price in raw or rendered HTML8Shopping agents skip the SKU entirely during price comparison
Cart and checkout return 404 to the scanner6No path to complete a purchase programmatically
robots.txt returns "Not found"6Crawler policy is undefined; compliant agents back off by default
Product attributes, inventory, specs, descriptions all fail22 combinedAgent has no material and cannot answer "is it in stock, will it fit, when does it ship"

The evidence

  • robots.txt is broken (0/6): https://patagonia.com/robots.txt returned status 404 with body "Not found\n". There is no allow list, no disallow list, and no signal to ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Claude-User, or Amazonbot about whether they are welcome.
  • Zero structured product data (0/6) and zero prices in HTML (0/8): Across 10 sampled URLs including mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html and mens-retro-pile-fleece-jacket/22801.html, hasProduct: false, hasOffer: false, and both rawHas and renderedHas are false on every single one.
  • Checkout is unreachable (0/6 + 0/4 + 0/3): /cart and /checkout both returned 404, so guest checkout, price transparency, and cart API accessibility all failed together on a single missing surface.
  • US category URLs are dead (3 of 10 samples): /shop/mens/boardshorts, /shop/mens/green/recycled, and /shop/mens/jackets-vests/breathable all returned 404, indicating the sampled paths on the .com domain do not resolve at all.
  • Merchant identity absent (0/3): The classifier found no business name, no physical address, and no registration ID on reachable pages, with evidence_quote: "Not found".

What already works

  • Bot posture is clean (6/6): Zero forbidden responses, zero challenge pages, zero rate limits across 32 fetches.
  • No CAPTCHA anywhere (4/4): Product, cart, checkout, and homepage all clear.
  • No dark-pattern pricing (2/2): No fake sale markup detected across the sample.

Fix first

  1. Publish a valid robots.txt with explicit allow/deny for named AI user agents (+6).
  2. Emit JSON-LD Product with Offer.price and availability on every PDP, in raw HTML (+20 across 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.5).
  3. Restore /cart and /checkout to reachable status and expose a sitemap.xml (+13).

The biggest opportunity is the PDP itself: one JSON-LD block per product recovers roughly a quarter of the total score in a single deploy.

EDiscoverability

Robots, sitemap, agent endpoints. broken.

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AI crawler posture: 0/6
https://patagonia.com/robots.txt
How to fixPro
1.1 · 0/6
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Structured product data coverage: 0/6
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
1.2 · 0/6
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Sitemap quality: 0/4
https://patagonia.com/sitemap.xml
How to fixPro
1.3 · 0/4
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Agent-specific endpoints: 2/4
https://patagonia.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
How to fixPro
1.4 · 2/4

EMachine Readability

Schema coverage, raw-HTML price, inventory, variants. broken.

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Price in raw HTML: 0/8
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
2.1 · 0/8
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Product attributes structured: 0/6
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
2.2 · 0/6
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Inventory signals: 0/5
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
2.3 · 0/5
Variant handling: 1/1
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
2.5 · 1/1

ETransactability

Checkout flow, guest, transparency, payment rails, cart API. broken.

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Checkout flow structure: 0/6
How to fixPro
3.1 · 0/6
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Guest checkout availability: 0/4
How to fixPro
3.2 · 0/4
×
Price transparency signals: 0/4
How to fixPro
3.3 · 0/4
!
Machine-native payment rails: 1/3
How to fixPro
3.4 · 1/3
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Cart API accessibility: 0/3
How to fixPro
3.5 · 0/3

AAgent Posture

Bot detection, CAPTCHA, rate limiting, stated agent policy. strong.

Bot detection aggressiveness: 6/6
4.1 · 6/6
CAPTCHA prevalence: 4/4
4.2 · 4/4
Rate limiting posture: 3/3
4.3 · 3/3
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Stated agent policy: 0/2
How to fixPro
4.4 · 0/2

ETrust Signals

Return policy, merchant verifiability, price history, third-party anchors. broken.

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Return policy machine-readable: 0/3
How to fixPro
5.1 · 0/3
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Merchant verifiability: 0/3
How to fixPro
5.2 · 0/3
Price history signals: 2/2
5.3 · 2/2
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Third-party trust anchors: 0/2
How to fixPro
5.4 · 0/2

EAgent-Native Content

Specs, descriptions, decision support, delivery, stability, absence of manipulation. broken.

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Specification completeness: 0/4
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
6.1 · 0/4
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Conversational product descriptions: 0/2
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
6.2 · 0/2
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Decision-support metadata: 0/3
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
6.3 · 0/3
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Delivery date transparency: 0/2
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
6.4 · 0/2
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Price stability signals: 0/2
sample · https://eu.patagonia.com/no/en/product/mens-better-sweater-fleece-vest/191743862304.html
How to fixPro
6.5 · 0/2
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Absence of manipulation tactics: not evaluated on this scan (the pages this check needs were not sampled).
6.6 · n/a