*SEO Week day 1 thought #12.*

Technical GEO. HTTP status code 499, which appears when the LLM client gives up waiting for a response, is an important response code for us to look for. Can only access it via server logs. Real-time AI retrieval often has strict latency limits; if a page is slow, the crawler simply stops waiting and logs a 499. Mike King showed cases where spikes in 499s lined up with sharp drops in AI visibility, and fixing performance brought that visibility back. As part of our own response to this, I cached all public Momentic pages behind Cloudflare this week and tuned things so the origin responds in under 200ms to reduce the risk of AI clients timing out. Will check Momentic server logs in a week as part of this test.