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83 of 519 AI tools keep their price on the home page and nowhere else

We already knew roughly two thirds of the tools we list publish a price. This time we recorded where it was. 432 put it at /pricing, 83 keep it on the home page only, and 108 of the 519 were invisible to a plain fetch until a browser ran their scripts.

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We audited 701 AI tool sites, then rebuilt the check we run on yours

Our submission check asked whether your title tag exists. Across 701 listings that passed 60 titles saying nothing but the brand name, and 14 share images pointing at a 404. It now asks the question the audits found was worth asking.

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The median AI tool homepage ships 177 KB of HTML before anything else loads

We measured the HTML document of all 701 listings — not the images, not the scripts they pull in, just the markup. 114 are over half a megabyte, 35 are over a megabyte, and the heaviest is 2.7 MB. Compression hides it from you and not from the browser.

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