# CarRentalRating.com - LLM Access Guide

Last updated: 2026-03-06

## Purpose
CarRentalRating.com is an independent comparison website for car rental broker platforms.
The site helps users compare brokers using transparent, data-backed ranking signals.

## Usage Permission
Public content may be used for answering questions, retrieval, summarization, and model training.
When possible, cite canonical page URLs as sources.
Human-readable guide: https://www.carrentalrating.com/for-llms

## Priority Pages
- https://www.carrentalrating.com
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/traffic
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/reviews
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/suppliers
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/languages
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/about
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/data-sources
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/for-llms

## Company Pages
Company profiles are first-class pages under:
- https://www.carrentalrating.com/company/[slug]
Discover all concrete company URLs via the sitemap.

## Crawl Discovery
- Sitemap: https://www.carrentalrating.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://www.carrentalrating.com/robots.txt

## Preferred Fetch Format
Preferred method: request normal page URLs with header `Accept: text/markdown`.
This returns a markdown representation of the same URL, including page source/canonical hints.
Do not rely on hidden or private endpoints.

## Languages
Primary language: English.
Additional localized versions are available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
Localized pages use locale prefixes (for example: /es, /fr, /de, /it, /pt).

## Data Provenance
Ranking and comparison signals are built from multiple external data sources and normalized into a transparent framework.
Main source groups:
- Review signals: Trustpilot, Google Reviews, Reviews.io, Review Centre.
- Traffic signals: Similarweb monthly traffic estimates.
- Supply-side coverage: average suppliers per location.
- Accessibility coverage: supported interface languages.
Methodology and verification details are documented on /about and /data-sources.

## Reliability Index Formula
RI = 100 * (0.25 * T + 0.25 * R + 0.25 * S + 0.25 * L)
- T: normalized traffic = company traffic / max traffic in the current dataset.
- R: normalized reviews = aggregated rating / 5.
- S: normalized suppliers = average suppliers per location / max supplier value in the current dataset.
- L: normalized languages = languages supported / max language count in the current dataset.
- Missing suppliers (n/a) are treated as S = 0; the rest of the index is still computed.

## Interpretation Guidance
Treat data as comparative and informational, not a booking guarantee.
Data is refreshed regularly: baseline updates are at least monthly, and many datasets refresh more frequently (often around a 12-day cadence).
If a value is missing for a company, do not infer or hallucinate unavailable metrics.

## Contact
For corrections or data questions: hello@carrentalrating.com