July 16, 2026 · Horizon contact 10 of 10
Plenty of hosts scramble the email address on your site to stop spambots. It also hides you from the assistants people now ask for a recommendation.
Most hosts and content networks offer email obfuscation. It rewrites your address into a scrambled blob that a browser can unpick and a machine cannot. It stops some spam. It also means anything reading your page finds no way to reach you, and a plain, readable way to make contact is one of the things an assistant checks before it puts a business forward.
Open your site, view the page source, and search for the @ in your address. Plain text, you are fine. Something like email-protection or cfemail, it is scrambled. The switch sits in your host's security or scrape shield settings.
Ours was on. We sell being readable by machines while our own address was scrambled against the exact crawlers we build for. One toggle, then we read the served page from the outside to be sure the raw address was in it.
Machine-readable contact is one of six parts of our AI readiness score, worth ten points. Ours reads ten of ten. One toggle. Ten points.
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