go.dev

Classified by Aater · 17 May 2026

go.dev is accessible and legible to AI systems, but lacks the authority signals needed for consistent attribution.

capturable
absent
marginal
capturable
emerging
authoritative
How this classification was derived · the three gates
Gate 1 · Reachability
pass

AI systems can access and fetch this domain's content.

Gate 2 · Legibility
present

Content present but not fully structured

Gate 3 · Authority
moderate

Authority signals are insufficient for reliable AI citation.

Primary constraint: Content has high density (0.35) but lacks the minimum required distinct entities or specific data claims.

AI systems can reach go.dev but struggle to extract its content.

Recommended next steps
1.Add Organization schema15 min

Expected impact: Improves Authority

View implementation →
<script type="application/ld+json">
{ "@context":"https://schema.org", "@type":"Organization",
  "name":"Your Company", "url":"https://example.com",
  "logo":"https://example.com/logo.png",
  "sameAs":["https://www.linkedin.com/company/you","https://x.com/you"] }
</script>
2.Add JSON-LD structured data15 min

Expected impact: Improves Legibility

View implementation →
<script type="application/ld+json">
{ "@context":"https://schema.org", "@type":"WebSite",
  "name":"Your Site", "url":"https://example.com" }
</script>
3.Add specific verifiable claims to the primary content — named figures with context, product specifications with measurable attributes, or dated events with named participants. The gap is small. Generic statements do not count.

Expected impact: Raising semantic density above 0.3 will move Legibility from present to Structured, advancing participation state.

Why these recommendations?

Content density is 0.35 against a threshold of 0.3 for Structured classification. The page lacks sufficient specific claims and named entities for AI systems to extract meaningful, attributable information.

• No structured data (JSON-LD / schema.org) — machine-readable metadata is absent.

• No Organization schema — entity identity is not machine-asserted.

• Add publication dates: Retrieval-augmented AI pipelines filter by recency. Undated content is deprioritised in freshness-weighted retrieval.

Additional signal · Entity presence
Does not affect participation state

How the public web recognizes this organization as an entity (knowledge graph). Observational only — a lower bound: absence means “not documented in the knowledge graph,” not “does not exist.”

✓Recognized as an entity in Wikidata: Go.
✓English Wikipedia article present.
✓Linked YouTube presence.
✓Linked GitHub presence.
See how go.dev compares to a competitor →
Pulse · Live monitoring
This is a snapshot. Pulse is the live feed.

See which AI agents are actually crawling go.dev — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and more — at what frequency and depth. A lightweight snippet reveals the agent activity your logs don't surface.

Pulse can alert you when authority signals improve or new AI agent activity is detected on go.dev.

Activate Pulse on go.dev →

Lightweight install · no performance impact · first agent activity in 24–72h (traffic-dependent)

What AI systems extract from this page →

Server-delivered content the crawler read · first 400 characters

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Measured 17 May 2026 · 18d ago

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