Sample ARC Report · synthetic fixture

See what sits
behind a finding.

This five-check excerpt comes from an internal ARC report fixture. It demonstrates the report's evidence vocabulary and decision structure. It is not a live scan, a customer case study or a complete paid report.

Scope comes first.

Demo identity: demo.example — a reserved example domain, not an operating business.

Source: mixed-scope synthetic fixture, dated 27 August 2026. Recorded coverage: partial. Selected check states and evidence below are preserved from that fixture.

Read the evidence, then decide.

Business consequences and next steps below are explanatory annotations. Fixture prices, account identifiers and aggregate scores are omitted. This sample does not claim current results or direct testing of any answer engine.

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PASS

Homepage is fetchable

Finding and recorded evidence: HTTP status: 200
Business consequence · explanation: A reachable homepage gives crawlers a starting point; this alone does not establish that the whole site is readable.
Recorded recommendation: No corrective recommendation recorded for this check.
Remediation and retest path · explanation: Keep the homepage accessible and include it in the relevant retest.

FAIL

Site is not globally blocked

Finding and recorded evidence: Global crawling is blocked
Business consequence · explanation: An unintended global block can prevent compliant crawlers from reaching public business information.
Recorded recommendation: Publish or correct robots.txt and remove unintended global or AI-crawler blocks.
Remediation and retest path · explanation: Confirm which pages must stay private, approve any crawl-rule changes, then retest the same condition.

NEEDS ATTENTION

AI-specific meta directives detected

Finding and recorded evidence: No AI-specific meta directive found (not a defect -- this is not an established standard)
Business consequence · explanation: This fixture marks an emerging convention for attention. Its absence is not proof of a business failure.
Recorded recommendation: No corrective recommendation recorded for this check.
Remediation and retest path · explanation: Review the intended crawler policy before deciding whether any change is useful; do not add directives just to chase a label.

NOT APPLICABLE

Structured data types are relevant to the business

Finding and recorded evidence: No structured data present to assess relevance.
Business consequence · explanation: This relevance check cannot apply when no structured data is present. It does not mean every other schema check passed.
Recorded recommendation: No corrective recommendation recorded for this check.
Remediation and retest path · explanation: Review separate applicable structured-data findings before scoping changes.

NOT VERIFIED

No duplicate/canonical content ambiguity detected

Finding and recorded evidence: Not evaluated at this scan depth; duplicate-content comparison requires the full multi-page sample.
Business consequence · explanation: The recorded scope cannot resolve possible duplication. The uncertainty is not a proven defect.
Recorded recommendation: No corrective recommendation recorded for this check.
Remediation and retest path · explanation: Agree any additional page sample needed to verify the condition before proposing a fix.

We only fail what we can prove.

A Not verified result is a limit in the available evidence. A Not applicable result stays separate. Neither becomes a failure to make the report look more decisive.

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