How this compares
Fly.io ranks #1 of 15 scanned hosting & cloud sites, scoring 87/100 — 7 points above the category average of 80. That is the highest score in the category, ahead of Vercel on 85.
Cited by AI answer engines
In the week of Oct 11, 2026, fly.io was cited by OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini) on 0 of 5, Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 1 of 5, and Perplexity (sonar) on 0 of 5 hosting & cloud prompts b/cited watches. Its best position was #3, on “What is the best hosting platform for a Node.js API that needs a managed Postgres database?” (Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6)). Citations are engine output at the time of the run, not a b/cited rating, and the prompts are a sample, not a census.
Indexing & crawl100 / 10011✓
Metadata100 / 1008✓
- Title tag present"Fly.io | Computers for agents"
- Meta description present"Sandboxes aren't enough. Give your agent a real computer and get back to building."
- H1 headingsingle H1: "Computersfor agents"
- Subheadings (H2)10 <h2> elements
- Mobile viewportviewport meta present
- Faviconicon link tag present
AEO (Answer Engines)63 / 1003✓4!1✗
- ai.txt (Spawning consent)missing (optional) — Spawning consent file is not load-bearing for citation, but signals intentDocs →
- AI crawler stance in robots.txtno AI crawler rules — robots.txt is default-permissive (most AI bots will follow this)Docs →
- FAQPage schema (citation-friendly)absent — FAQPage is one of the most-cited schema types in AI answersDocs →
- Author / Person schema (E-E-A-T)absent — author credibility is part of Google E-E-A-T and feeds AI citation trustDocs →
Structured data83 / 1004✓2!
- Sitelinks searchbox (SearchAction)no SearchAction — your site can't opt into the sitelinks searchbox featureDocs →
Social cards100 / 1005✓
- Twitter Card (core 4)twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image all presentDocs →
Security79 / 1005✓1!1✗
Performance50 / 1001!
Mobile90 / 1004✓1!
International50 / 1001!
- hreflang annotationsno hreflang declarations — fine for English-only sites; required for localized variantsDocs →
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