First-party data
AI Readiness by Website Platform
Whether an AI assistant can actually read and cite a dealer’s inventory depends heavily on the website platform underneath. Here’s how the platforms compare, scored from public analyzer runs.
| Platform | Sites | Median score | Grades | Weakest area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SM360 | 11 | 73 | Agent tooling | |
| Convertus | 41 | 68 | Content depth | |
| D2C Media | 63 | 66 | Agent tooling | |
| ZOP Dealer | 30 | 60 | Agent tooling | |
| WordPress (no dealer platform detected) | 61 | 53 | Agent tooling | |
| Carpages Dealer Websites | 18 | 52 | Agent tooling | |
| Other / custom sites | 140 | 51 | Agent tooling | |
| EDealer | 77 | 51 | Agent tooling | |
| DealerOn | 10 | 51 | Agent tooling | |
| Hillz | 38 | 38 | Agent tooling | |
| Emerging platforms (fewer than 10 sites) | 39 | — | — |
How we measured
Scores come from public runs of the VIN Index AI Readiness Analyzer. We detect the website platform from each site’s public HTML and keep only the most recent scan per domain, so a site analyzed many times counts once. “Sites” is the number of distinct domains behind each figure — small samples will move as more sites are analyzed. To avoid naming a platform on too thin a sample, platforms with fewer than 10 distinct sites are pooled into a single “Emerging platforms” row with no median shown. Scans were collected on different dates; each linked report shows its own observation date. This table refreshes as reports change. Scores measure the tested website properties, not traffic or citation frequency.