The public record

The readable web

What the web looks like to a caller that wants facts instead of a page. Aggregates name nobody; named entries require verified opt-in.

Disclosures

ARS measures format and retrievability. It does not measure whether the facts are true, or whether any assistant cites this page.

ARS is authored by Rebilder, which sells content-negotiation middleware. Two ARS checks (D2.1 content negotiation, D5 structured data) can be satisfied by Rebilder's free gateway, and reaching an A requires both. The full ruleset, thresholds, and conformance corpus are published so this bias is auditable rather than hidden.

Every score below is ARS 0.1.0: measured 64 points, heuristic 36 points, of 100. Ruleset 51176d88. Read the standard.

Aggregates

Everything we scan, with nobody named

Published per page kind and only above a floor of 25 independent domains per bucket.

No bucket has reached the floor yet

Aggregates are published per page kind, and only once a bucket contains at least 25 independent domains. That floor is not a tunable: it is the same number in the spec (§7.6), in CLAUDE.md, and in the code, and lowering it to have something to show would be the single worst decision available here.

Nothing on this page names a domain, so there is no version of it that is safe at a smaller k and merely conservative at 25. Below the floor a distribution is a disclosure about a handful of sites wearing a histogram's clothes.

Reading the aggregate distribution…

Named entries

Domains that asked to be listed

Verified by a DNS TXT record, or by observing the gateway live on the origin. Nothing else is ever named.

No domain has completed verified opt-in yet

That is not a launch gap; it is the rule working. Nothing about a named third party is published on a Rebilder index, ranking, or badge without verified domain-owner opt-in, so an index with no opt-ins is an empty index.

Opting in takes a DNS TXT record. We never make outbound sales contact on the basis of a score, and there is no paid placement of any kind.

Verify your domain → · How verification and removal work →

Reading the index…

Leaving

Removal, in four sentences

Removal is free

There is no price, no plan, and no support tier attached to leaving. Removal is never purchasable in either direction — you cannot pay to be removed and you cannot pay to be listed.

Removal is self-serve

The same DNS TXT record that verifies ownership removes the entry. An unverified request also works: it triggers suppression pending review, because a person exercising erasure against a personal-name domain cannot be made to prove DNS control first.

Removal is permanent

Suppression is keyed by registrable domain and consulted on the read path, the write path, and the badge endpoint. A later crawl cannot re-list a suppressed domain, and the domain is dropped from the aggregate distributions too.

Appeal outcomes are not published

If a domain owner disputes an entry and the entry stands, we publish nothing about the dispute. "They complained and lost" is worse for the appellant than the original entry was.

Methodology · The ARS standard · What our scanner does