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Check Your AI Visibility.

Score how ready your homepage is to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Run 16 live checks across technical foundations, structured data, and AI crawler access with instant results and no signup required.

ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Gemini

How you appear in these answers is tested in the full report

No credit card requiredWeighted score across 16 on-page checksServer-side fetch of your live homepage
Methodology

What does the free AEO checker inspect?

It inspects the HTML of your live homepage and scores 16 weighted checks worth 88 points in total, split across four groups: on-page foundations, structured data, experience and expertise, and crawler access. The tool only fetches the page you name. It does not log in, does not install anything, and does not modify your site.

Key takeaways
  • 16 checks, 88 weighted points, reported as a score out of 100.
  • Four groups: foundations, structured data, E-E-A-T markers, crawler access.
  • Runs server-side against your live homepage, so no install and no account.
  • The report renders on this page, and the full report is sent by email.
Pillar 01

On-page foundations

Homepage served over HTTPS, a title tag, a meta description, exactly one H1, a canonical tag, and Open Graph title and description. These are the first things a crawler reads and the basis an answer engine uses to decide whether your page is quotable.

26 points across 6 checks
Pillar 02

Structured data

JSON-LD on the page, an Organization or LocalBusiness entity declaring who you are, and FAQPage markup so your answers are machine-readable as answers. This is the heaviest group in the scan.

25 points across 3 checks
Pillar 03

Experience and expertise

Author markup and a published or modified date somewhere in the page data. Search engines use these to tell a maintained page from an abandoned one, and this is the check most business sites fail.

7 points across 1 check
Pillar 04

Crawler access

Whether llms.txt and robots.txt exist, and whether GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended are allowed to read you. A site that blocks these will never be cited, no matter how good the content is.

30 points across 6 checks

Every line the scan runs is listed above with its weight, so the score is reproducible: run it again on the same page and you will get the same number. For the wider picture, readhow answer engine optimization worksorbrowse the AEO and AI search archive.

The shift

How is AEO different from traditional SEO?

Traditional SEO optimizes a page to rank in a list of links. AEO optimizes the same page so a language model can read it, understand it, and quote it inside a written answer. The work overlaps, but the target and the measurement are not the same.

Traditional search

Ranking in results

Optimization target
Single target keywords and exact match phrases
What is measured
Position of your link in a results list
What the reader sees
A list of links to choose from
Technical prerequisite
Sitemaps, indexable pages and meta descriptions
What we optimize for
AI answers

Being cited in the answer

Optimization target
Entity relationships, subject authority and structured data
What is measured
Whether the answer names you and cites your page
What the reader sees
One synthesized answer with sources attached
Technical prerequisite
Structured data, answer-shaped content and crawler access
Remediation

How do you fix low AI visibility?

Fix the page first, then earn the mentions. Low AI visibility usually traces back to one of three things: a page a crawler cannot parse, structured data that never declares who you are, or no mention of your business anywhere outside your own domain. The scan above tells you which of those is missing on your homepage today.

01

Make the page readable to a crawler

Start with what this scan flags: a title, a meta description, one H1, a canonical tag and Open Graph tags, served over HTTPS. Until those exist, the rest of the work has nothing to attach to.

Foundation
02

Declare who you are in structured data

Add JSON-LD that names the organization, describes what it offers, and answers the questions your buyers ask. FAQPage markup in particular is what lets a machine read your answers as answers rather than as body copy.

Structure
03

Get mentioned outside your own site

Answer engines weigh what other sites say about you. Consistent facts, editorial coverage and citations on the sites they already read move citation further than another page on your own domain.

Authority

We run all three as one engagement. If you would rather see how the work is structured first, readour answer engine optimization serviceor checkthe frequently asked questions.

Questions

What do people ask about this AEO checker?

Short answers to the four things visitors ask most often about the free scan and what it can and cannot do.

Is the AEO checker free to use?
Yes. The scan is free, needs no account, and asks for nothing except a domain. It fetches your live homepage and returns a score with a pass or fail line for each of the 16 checks. No card details are collected. The full report, which adds live answer tests and a competitor comparison, is requested separately through the form on this page.
What does the AEO checker actually test?
It reads the HTML of your homepage and scores 16 weighted checks in four groups: on-page foundations (title, meta description, H1, canonical, Open Graph), structured data (JSON-LD, Organization or LocalBusiness, FAQPage), E-E-A-T markers (author and date markup), and crawler access (llms.txt, robots.txt, and whether GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended are blocked). It does not query ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini. Those answer tests are part of the full report.
How is AEO different from traditional SEO?
Traditional SEO helps your pages rank in a list of search results. AEO structures the same material so an AI assistant can read it, understand it, and quote it inside a written answer. In practice the work overlaps heavily: clear content, solid technical foundations, and outside mentions help both.
Can you get me cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity?
No. These systems are closed and change without notice, so nobody can promise a specific citation. What we can do is remove the common reasons you get left out: content the engines cannot parse, inconsistent business facts, and no mentions on the third-party sites they already read.

Who wrote and reviewed this AEO checker?

Reviewed by

Steven Franzken, Founder & CEO

Steven leads search and AI strategy at Rank First Digital. The methodology behind this checker, the 16 checks and their weights, is the same set of on-page criteria we run when we audit a client site before any AEO work starts. Questions about how a specific check is scored go tothe team directly.

Published 29 October 2026. Last reviewed 2 November 2026.

Full audit service

Do you need a full AI visibility audit?

The free scan reads one homepage. A full audit covers the rest of your site and the competitors you name, then hands back a prioritized list of what to fix first, in the order it will move the needle.

A prompt-by-prompt comparison against the competitors you name
A structured data and entity disambiguation plan for your site
A review of robots.txt, AI crawler access and how your pages render
A one-to-one strategy briefing with our search team
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