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AEO Readiness Score
Derived from this page analysis; these bars are not live rankings, traffic, or citation measurements.
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Detailed analysis
Category scores, prioritized fixes, and next steps based on this page scan.
Weighted on-page signals that make up your readiness score.
Highest-impact fixes first — sorted by weak categories and weight.
Agency / Tracker: run one search-style question through Claude’s live web search and see whether this URL comes back among the sources. It samples one engine at one moment — it is not continuous brand or citation monitoring, and it does not query ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity.
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Review your page’s checked technical and content features in one weighted readiness score.
On-page technical SEO audit for Google, Bing, and Yandex—canonicals, robots, HTTPS, and crawl basics.
AI SEO signals: schema checker results, entity clarity, AI crawlability, and citation-friendly structure.
Get actionable tips to improve headings, FAQs, and clarity.
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Simple process
Paste your page URL to start the analysis.
Our AEO checker runs a website AI audit—technical SEO, schema checker signals, and AI crawlability.
Receive your AEO score and detailed category breakdown.
Use the findings to prioritize clearer content, schema, entity, and crawlability improvements.
A weighted summary of the page features checked by this tool.
Your score summarizes the features this tool can assess from one page. Read it alongside the category findings: a high total can still contain important access or content issues.
The AEO readiness score blends technical crawl signals, content structure, schema validity, and trust cues into one number so you can prioritize fixes. Category breakdowns in the full report show whether schema, content, technical crawl, or authorship needs work first. Pro unlocks deeper citation and entity analysis.
The checked features are strong. Review individual warnings and keep important information current.
A useful foundation with specific improvements to review in the report.
Review access, heading structure, answer clarity and relevant structured data.
Start with the highest-priority access, structure and content findings.
Use these bands to prioritize review. Start with access and indexability findings, then address the content and structured-data issues relevant to your page. An 80 is a readiness score, not an 80% chance of being cited.
Each category is scored out of 100. The total is the sum of category scores multiplied by their normalized weights, rounded to the nearest whole number.
Weights are our assessment choices, not official platform ranking factors. The percentages below come from the current report configuration. If AI analysis is unavailable, content and trust categories are excluded and the remaining weights are rescaled to 100%. Missing analysis is not scored as zero.
| Category | With AI analysis | Rules only |
|---|---|---|
| Structured data | 13.6% | 20.8% |
| Content clarity | 20.9% | Excluded from total |
| Heading structure | 12.7% | 19.4% |
| Technical SEO | 9.1% | 13.9% |
| GEO and AI readiness | 13.6% | 20.8% |
| Question-and-answer structure | 11.8% | 18.1% |
| Experience, expertise and trust signals | 13.6% | Excluded from total |
| Freshness | 4.6% | 6.9% |
Pro combines five rule-based categories with nine AI assessments. Topic-gap analysis evaluates the submitted page; it does not crawl live competitors. Trust, citation and freshness assessments do not certify credentials or factual accuracy. If Pro analysis cannot complete, the report identifies the standard analysis used instead.
| Category | Weight |
|---|---|
| Structured data | 6.8% |
| Heading structure | 3.8% |
| Question-and-answer structure | 3.8% |
| Technical SEO | 4.5% |
| GEO and AI readiness | 6.0% |
| Content clarity | 12.0% |
| Experience, expertise and trust signals | 10.5% |
| Entity clarity | 10.5% |
| Natural language and voice-answer structure | 8.3% |
| Citation signals | 10.5% |
| Content depth | 6.8% |
| Topic gaps | 6.8% |
| Freshness | 3.8% |
| Answer-first introduction | 6.0% |
Paste mode assesses only the submitted text or HTML, without verifying the live page or crawler access. Schema and FAQ scores are capped in this mode. Recheck the published page in URL mode.
A score of 80 does not mean visibility in 80% of AI answers. Compare the same URL using the same analysis mode and engine revision, and inspect individual findings. Page changes and AI assessment variation can affect results. Displayed percentages may differ slightly from a total of 100% because they are rounded to one decimal place.
The page score does not measure live brand mentions, search rankings, traffic, or citation frequency. Neither free nor Pro scoring queries ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity. Eligible Pro plans offer a separate, optional Claude web-search probe for one question at one point in time; its result is not included in the readiness total.
Platform documentation explains access requirements. Research offers context for content checks. Our category weights are an editorial assessment framework, not values published or endorsed by those sources.
| Check group | Practical priority | Scope and evidence |
|---|---|---|
| SEO foundations | Address access issues first | HTML access, indexability hints, canonical tags and clear page structure. Google requires indexing and snippet eligibility for supporting links in AI Overviews and AI Mode. This checker inspects page-level indicators; it does not verify Google’s index. Google: AI features and your website |
| Evidence and source signals | Review relevance and accuracy | Numbers, quotations and links to external sources in the submitted content. The GEO study tested content changes in a research benchmark. Its findings inform these checks, but do not validate our weights or guarantee results on current platforms. Finding a number or link does not establish its credibility. Aggarwal et al.: GEO research |
| Search crawler access | Check origin access when available | Pro URL checks can inspect robots.txt rules for search-facing crawlers. OpenAI documents OAI-SearchBot as its search crawler. robots.txt permission alone does not prove that a CDN or firewall admits the crawler, or that the page will be selected. Origin checks are separate from HTML-only analysis. OpenAI: crawler roles |
| Training controls | Informational | Model-training permission is separate from permission to fetch content for search. OpenAI allows site owners to permit OAI-SearchBot while blocking GPTBot. A training opt-out is not treated as a search-access failure by this checker. Other vendors have their own controls and scope. OpenAI: independent bot settings |
| Structured data and optional files | Use where appropriate | Relevant schema, question-and-answer content and optional llms.txt checks. Google requires no special schema or AI text file for its AI search features. These checks describe machine-readable structure and optional conventions; adding them is not a citation guarantee. The FAQ category also checks visible answer structure, not just FAQPage markup. Google: technical requirements |
Rule-based analysis plus optional AI commentary — the same signal groups that produce your score.
This AI search audit tool combines rule-based analysis with optional AI commentary. Below is our analysis framework—the same signal groups that produce your score.
Illustrative scores from a live URL check pattern — not a promise for your site. Real totals depend on schema, answer structure, entities, and crawlability.
Sample only. Scores are diagnostic heuristics, not rankings or AI citation guarantees.
Use the findings relevant to your page. Start with access problems, then improve answers, evidence and page structure.
Four foundational moves
Use relevant structured data that reflects the page — build a JSON-LD graph.
Answer the visitor’s main question in the opening paragraph.
Identify the brand, product and author clearly wherever relevant.
Check search crawler rules together with public page access, CDN restrictions and firewall logs. Training permissions are a separate choice.
Prioritized action checklist
Optimizing content so AI answer engines can understand, extract, and present your information accurately.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring and improving digital content so search and AI answer systems can retrieve, understand, attribute, and present it accurately. It combines direct answers, clear entities, trustworthy evidence, crawlable pages, and machine-readable schema; it does not guarantee rankings, citations, or inclusion in generated answers.
Classic SEO optimizes for ranked links in Google and Bing. AEO optimizes for answers—featured snippets, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Gemini, voice assistants, and any interface that synthesizes sources instead of showing ten blue links.
This free tool scores that readiness for any public URL in seconds—no account required.
For the full methodology, read the Complete AEO Guide. For brand-level citation strategy, see Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).
Rankings alone are not enough when answers are synthesized above the classic SERP.
Visitors can discover information through traditional search results and generated answers. Clear, accessible pages give people and retrieval systems useful information to work with. Check page readiness alongside real traffic and customer questions.
For platform context, read the guides to Google AI search, ChatGPT Search and Perplexity. Use this page audit to identify practical improvements before comparing live visibility results.
AEO builds on SEO fundamentals: accessible pages, useful content and clear answers. Use relevant structured data where it accurately describes the page. Recheck important pages after substantive changes, and measure real brand mentions and citations separately.
A readiness audit is most useful when it leads to a concrete improvement: a clearer explanation, an accurate source, a corrected page directive or structured data that matches the content.
Honestly: these two overlap far more than the industry admits, and neither is an official term — Google's own guidance uses neither word. AEO is the older marketing label from the featured-snippet and voice-search era. GEO is newer and, unusually, has a real academic origin: a 2024 ACM SIGKDD paper defining generative engines and measuring what actually changes their answers. The useful distinction is scope, not doctrine.
This checker covers page-level answer readiness plus the on-page half of GEO — including the evidence signals that study measured. Full GEO also needs brand mentions, entity graphs, and ongoing monitoring across engines, which no single URL scan can tell you.
| AEO | GEO | |
|---|---|---|
| Goal | Become the answer | Become the cited source |
| Focus | Your page | Your brand ecosystem |
| Signals | Structure, headings, schema, extractable answers | Evidence density, authority, mentions, entities, knowledge graph |
| Example query | “What is LASIK?” | “Best LASIK clinics in Turkey” |
Learn more in our GEO optimization guide. Use this tool for page-level AEO; use AEO Tracker (Pro) for weekly score monitoring on URLs you care about.
Two input modes, two trust levels. Paste is useful for drafts; only a public URL fetch is a verified live-page score.
Public positioning — not a paid bake-off. We measure on-page AI-search readiness; classic SEO suites measure different jobs.
| Job | Maksut tools | Typical SEO suite | AlsoAsked-style |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-page AEO / AI visibility score | Primary — schema, FAQ, answer-first, GEO probes | Secondary / partial | Not the focus |
| Keyword research & SERP clusters | Content Gap outlines (AI-assisted) | Primary strength | Question graphs |
| Live URL fetch + paste draft modes | Both — paste capped & labelled self-reported | Usually crawl / project URLs | N/A |
| Ranking / citation guarantees | None — diagnostic heuristics only | None (honest vendors) | None |
Re-run the same public URL here after changes. Third-party tools remain useful for keyword and SERP research; this stack is built for AI-search page readiness.
Based on 22 anonymised live URL checks in the last 30 days: average score 54.8, median 57. Diagnostic only — not rankings or citation rates.
Only hashed URL fingerprints and scores are retained. Paste / self-reported checks are excluded. Scores are heuristic estimates, not ranking guarantees.
An AEO score is a heuristic 0–100 summary from this AEO Readiness Checker for how well a public page signals structure, trust, and machine-readable facts. Those signals matter for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and when AI-assisted search summarizes or cites sources. It is not an official ranking, visibility, or citation score from any platform.
Yes, for on-page readiness. The checker evaluates structure, schema, and content signals that ChatGPT Search and similar systems use when selecting sources. It never queries ChatGPT live — not on the free tier and not on Pro. Pro adds an optional citability probe that runs one search-style question through Claude's live web search and reports whether your URL came back as a source; that samples one engine at one moment, and no tool here claims to see inside ChatGPT.
Start with what research actually measured: add verifiable statistics, quote credible sources, and cite primary sources with outbound links. Then confirm search-facing AI crawlers are not blocked in robots.txt, write answer-first intros, and fix heading hierarchy. Re-run this audit after changes. For brand-level citation tracking across engines, pair on-page work with ongoing AI search monitoring.
They overlap heavily and neither is an official term — Google's own guidance uses neither word. AEO is the older label from the featured-snippet and voice-search era, meaning "be the direct answer". GEO comes from a 2024 ACM SIGKDD paper that defined generative engines and measured what changes their answers. In practice the useful split is scope: AEO is page-level answer readiness, GEO adds brand-level authority, mentions, and entity signals. This checker covers page-level readiness plus the on-page half of GEO, including the evidence signals that study measured.
Mostly yes. Google has stated AI Overviews and AI Mode run on the same core Search ranking systems — there is no special AEO markup, schema, or AI-only file required to appear in them. Structured data still improves machine-readable clarity and helps with regular rich results, and extractable, well-structured, trustworthy passages remain easier for any system to reuse — but that is normal SEO and content quality, not a separate "AEO ranking factor."
No tool can guarantee positions in Google, Bing, or Yandex, or that ChatGPT or Perplexity will recommend a specific site. Rankings depend on competition, backlinks, history, and query intent. This checker tool helps you improve discoverable, trustworthy signals—one input to a broader strategy.
Yes. Enter a public URL or paste a draft without an account. Your remaining daily allowance is shown in the form. The report includes a readiness score and category findings; AI content and trust assessment are included when available. Pro adds nine AI dimensions and PDF export.
For URLs, the AEO Readiness Checker requests your HTML over HTTPS like a lightweight crawler, parses the document, and runs a combined technical SEO and schema pass: JSON-LD, headings, robots/canonical hints, crawlability proxies, readability, and trust cues—then optional AI commentary. Pages that block bots or require JavaScript-only rendering may score lower or fail to fetch.
Pro URL analysis can inspect robots.txt rules for search-facing crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot. Free and paste-mode checks do not verify origin-level crawler access. Check CDN and firewall rules separately. OpenAI documents GPTBot training controls as independent from OAI-SearchBot search controls; the checker does not treat a training opt-out as a search-access failure.
It may help systems that choose to follow the proposed convention prioritize your key pages, but it is not a ranking or citation guarantee, and adoption varies by AI vendor. This checker's Pro tier checks for an llms.txt file as one AI-readiness signal alongside schema, crawlability, and content structure — not a replacement for those fundamentals.
It checks JSON-LD for SpeakableSpecification or a non-empty `speakable` property, which Google documents for eligible news-style and other content. It does not invoke voice assistants or measure audio quality—only structured-data and content-structure signals that support voice-oriented results where Google supports them.
Generally no. The URL mode needs a publicly reachable HTML response. Use “Paste text” for private drafts if you do not want to publish them yet.
The site may cache anonymised fetch results briefly to protect server resources and may store optional lead emails if that feature is on. Do not submit secrets or personal data in URLs or pasted content.
The audit reviews general technical and content features relevant to AI search readiness. Free and Pro scoring do not query Google AI, ChatGPT, Bing or Perplexity for live mentions. Eligible Pro plans offer a separate optional probe using one Claude web search. That snapshot is separate from the page score and does not represent visibility across platforms.
Selection varies by platform, question and available sources. This checker reviews page structure, content clarity and technical indicators; it cannot observe an engine’s internal selection process. Google requires indexing and snippet eligibility for supporting links in its AI search features and says no special AI schema is needed. A high readiness score does not guarantee selection.
Built and maintained by Maksut, with a focus on WordPress engineering, technical SEO, and AEO implementation. The Maksut profile describes web work since 2010 and client work since 2017. See the background and approach there, or explore SEO & AEO services for implementation support.
Scores are transparent heuristics—not official Google, Microsoft, or AI vendor ratings. Methodology is documented on this page; limitations are stated openly. For regulated or YMYL industries, validate recommendations with a human expert.
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