26/06/2026
The same web page cost an AI 20,347 tokens as HTML. As Markdown? 3,270. An 84% cut, same content.
When ChatGPT or Perplexity reads your site, it pays for every menu, sidebar, and ad in tokens before it reaches your words. Markdown strips the clutter.
Cloudflare, Stripe, GitHub, and Yoast's founder all serve Markdown to AI now. We just made it one toggle for Joomla.
Here's how it works, with the full token breakdown 👇
ChatGPT has ~800M weekly users, but most AI tools choke on bloated HTML. Here's how serving Markdown helps AI assistants read and cite your Joomla content.