llms.txt lacks version or last-updated metadata
This check looks at your llms.txt file, a text file some sites publish specifically to guide AI systems on how to read their content, for version and last-updated fields in its header. Your llms.txt is published, but it's missing those fields. AI ingestion pipelines, such as Perplexity's publisher API and ChatGPT's memory ingest, use version and last-updated fields to work out whether a cached copy of your file is stale. Without them, an AI engine can keep serving out-of-date facts about your product long after you've updated the real page. Your developer should add '> Version: 1.0' and '> Last-updated: YYYY-MM-DD' to the top of the llms.txt file, and update the date every time the content changes. This is a 30 minute task, and worth adding to your process for whenever you next update your product copy.
Why this matters
AI ingestion pipelines, such as Perplexity's publisher API and ChatGPT's memory ingest, use version and last-updated fields to work out whether a cached copy of your file is stale. Without them, an AI engine can keep serving out-of-date facts about your product long after you've updated the real page.
How to fix it
Your developer should add '> Version: 1.0' and '> Last-updated: YYYY-MM-DD' to the top of the llms.txt file, and update the date every time the content changes. This is a 30 minute task, and worth adding to your process for whenever you next update your product copy.