Does your business show up when people ask AI for a recommendation?

SEO competes to rank as a clickable link in a list of search results. AEO competes for something different: being quoted and cited inside the answer an AI engine writes, like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, or Claude. They overlap on the basics (both reward a page that is easy to crawl and genuinely useful), but AEO adds the job of making your content easy for an AI to lift a clear, self-contained answer from and attribute to you.

Your 0-to-100 score comes from nine dimensions covering structure, schema, sourcing, freshness, crawlability, and entity clarity. Most are deterministic checks that run in code, so the same page always gets the same structural result; a few judgment-based dimensions are graded by an AI model set to its most consistent, no-randomness setting (temperature 0). It is an estimate of how citation-ready your page is, not a guarantee any single engine will quote you. Our methodology page lists every dimension and how each one is checked.

It reflects citation-readiness for the major answer engines: ChatGPT and ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini, and Claude. We probe and measure how ready your page is for these engines. We never claim to see the real prompts people type into them, because nobody outside the engines can.

Yes, and no account is needed. Paste a URL and your 0-to-100 score plus the full nine-dimension breakdown are free with no login. Entering an email, still free, unlocks two extras: a prioritized fix list ranked by impact versus effort, and a ready-to-paste JSON-LD schema block tailored to your page. Separately, we are building a paid AI Visibility Tracker for ongoing monitoring, but you never have to buy anything to use the scorer.

You do not need to be a developer. You paste a URL and get a plain-language score in under a minute, with nothing to install. Each issue is explained in everyday terms and ranked from easiest to hardest, so you can fix simple things yourself in your site builder and hand the rest to whoever maintains your site. The schema block we generate is copy-and-paste, not coding: drop it in and re-score the page to watch your number move.

No. The score is page-type aware. A blog article genuinely needs a named author and a publish date, so it is checked for those, but a homepage or product page is not. Each page is judged by the standard that fits it, such as clear entity details and Product schema rather than a byline it was never meant to have.

You can run a score with no account at all. We log the URL you analyze and its score so we can calibrate and improve our rubric, and we use privacy-respecting page-view analytics to understand how the tool is used, but we never sell or share your data. If you enter an email to unlock the fix list, we use it only to send your results and occasional product updates, and you can opt out anytime. We only read what is already public on your page; we never change or post anything to your site.

Probably, yes. A strong Google ranking does not mean an AI engine will quote you. In a 2025 Ahrefs study of about 15,000 queries, only around 12% of the URLs that assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini cited also ranked in Google's top 10 for the same query, so the two surfaces overlap far less than people assume. And in a 2025 Ahrefs analysis of 75,000 brands, unlinked brand mentions correlated with AI Overview visibility at 0.66, well above the 0.22 for backlinks. AI visibility is its own channel, and it has to be measured on its own.

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. In a 2026 controlled before-and-after test of 1,885 pages, Ahrefs found that adding schema markup produced no meaningful lift in AI citations. Schema still helps engines parse and trust your page, so we measure it, but that is exactly why our fix list ranks clear answer structure and specific, verifiable facts above markup. We weight what actually moves the number, and we tell you when a popular tactic does not.

It is growing fast but still small in absolute terms, and we will not oversell it. More than 800 million people now use ChatGPT every week (October 2025), and Google's AI Overviews reach roughly 2 billion monthly users, yet AI referrals are still only about 1% of all website traffic as of 2025. The shift is real and early: U.S. retail traffic from generative-AI sources grew roughly 693% year over year over the 2025 holiday season, and those visitors converted about 31% higher than other traffic (Adobe Analytics). Getting citation-ready now is a low-cost bet on a fast-rising channel.

The scan itself takes under a minute, but improving real AI visibility usually takes a few weeks, because engines have to re-crawl your updated pages and rebuild their answers. No tool can guarantee a citation, and anyone who promises that is overselling, since no one controls what an AI chooses to quote. What the score does is measure how citation-ready your page is and raise your odds: fix the high-impact items, then re-scan after each round of changes.