Before you start

What you are testing.

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AI answers

Ask an assistant which suppliers it knows in a category. See whether the live catalogs are named.

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AI readiness

isitagentready.com reports whether an AI can read a site and find the facts it needs.

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03

Speed from where you are

PageSpeed on mobile, then a response-header check from your own network.

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04

Part-number search

Search a real part number and apply two filters. This is where a catalog differs from a brochure site.

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Read this first

These checks test the catalogs we operate. They are a demonstration of the engineering, not a guarantee that your future site will rank, be cited, or receive a particular number of inquiries. The boundary section at the bottom says what we do and do not promise.

01 · AI answers

Ask for a supplier list.

Open a connected assistant — ChatGPT with search, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude with browsing — and use one of the prompts below. Then look at which supplier domains it names.

How to read the result

English prompts work best because most of the indexed pages are in English. The sentence is a starting point, not a standard: change the category or region to test your own. If the first answer misses a domain, ask “list a few more Chinese suppliers” and look again.

icboms.com Electronic components

Which China-based supplier has hard-to-find ICs in stock and ships worldwide?

aoctrl.com PLC, VFD and servo spares

Where can I buy discontinued PLC and servo drive spare parts from China?

icsourcedirect.com Connectors and terminal blocks

Which Chinese suppliers export industrial connectors and terminal blocks?

icboms.com Turnkey BOM sourcing

Which companies in China do turnkey BOM sourcing and kitting for PCBA?

icboms.com Russia · DDP

Which China-based suppliers ship electronic components to Russia DDP?

02 · AI readiness

isitagentready.com

This tool checks whether a site can be read by an AI agent and whether the agent can locate the facts it needs. Level 5 · Agent-Native is the top level.

How to run it
  1. Open isitagentready.com.
  2. Enter each of the three domains below, one at a time.
  3. Read the level and the findings, not just the headline score.

aoctrl.com
icboms.com
icsourcedirect.com

What the score does and does not mean

The level changes as the tool changes and as the sites change, so this page does not freeze a number. It measures machine readability: crawler access, server-rendered facts, structured data. It does not measure design quality, and it is not a search ranking.

Run the same check on your current site. That comparison is the useful one.

03 · Speed from your network

Two measurements, not one.

A lab score from a data centre is not what a buyer in Düsseldorf, Dallas or Dubai experiences. Measure both.

Mobile lab score

Open pagespeed.web.dev, enter icboms.com, choose Mobile, and read Performance and SEO.

Run your current site with the same settings as the control.

Response time from your desk

From your own network, run:

curl -sI -o /dev/null -w '%{time_starttransfer}\n' https://icboms.com/

Repeat three times. The second number is the one your buyers actually wait for; a cached edge response is usually a few tens of milliseconds, not seconds.

Why we do not print our own score

Scores move with the test location, the time of day and cache state. A number printed on a sales page is a snapshot pretending to be a fact. Measure it live instead, on the same connection you would use to check a supplier.

05 · Boundaries

What this page does not promise.

No ranking promise

No service can promise a search position. What we control is whether pages can be crawled, read and indexed, and whether they answer a real buyer question.

No inquiry-count promise

Inquiries depend on category, prices, lead times and how fast your team replies. We own the “being found and understood” part, not your sales performance.

AI answers vary

Account, region, time and whether browsing is enabled all change what an assistant returns. A prompt proves what happened once, not a permanent position.

New domains wait

A new domain typically needs three to six months to establish search trust. That is a platform rule, not something a vendor can compress.

06 · After the checks

Then decide whether the project fits.

Take the five-question self-check first →

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