How citable is your site in AI answers?
One URL. A 30-second scan. A 0–100 score across the five dimensions that move the new ranking surface — generative engine optimisation, not SEO. Anchored on the framework in the Studio Nine journal.
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Enter a URL above to start the scan. We don't store the result — refresh and it's gone.
- Fetch homepage HTML
- Read robots.txt
- Read sitemap.xml
- Read llms.txt
- Score across 5 tiers
Can AI engines reach your pages at all — robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txt.
Once they're in, do they understand who you are — title, schema, OG.
Standalone, factual sentences that an LLM can quote without you in the room.
Recent dates, lastmod on sitemap, dateModified in schema.
Author bylines, Article schema, sameAs links to verified profiles.
PRIORITISED FIXES · ORDERED BY IMPACT
Raw signals (what we found)
Open the math
The score is a weighted blend of five tiers. Each tier scores 0–100; the overall score is a weighted average.
- Crawlability · 25% — homepage HTTP 200, robots.txt present, sitemap.xml present,
llms.txtpresent (the emerging convention for an LLM-readable summary of a site), and no AI bots blocked. - Comprehension · 30% — clear title (50–60 chars), 120–160 char meta description, canonical URL, complete OpenGraph, Organization JSON-LD (the single biggest signal), WebSite JSON-LD, and enough content to summarise (~400+ words).
- Citability · 25% — sentences that an LLM can quote standalone (8–32 words, third person, with a proper noun or number signal), one clear H1, multiple H2s, headings that lead with claims (not "How…" or "What…" questions), a named author, and BreadcrumbList schema.
- Freshness · 10% — recent year visible in content,
<lastmod>on sitemap entries,dateModifiedin JSON-LD. - Authority · 10% — Article/BlogPosting schema with author + publisher + dates,
sameAslinks to verified profiles (LinkedIn, X, Crunchbase, Wikidata), meta description quality.
What we don't do: we don't query LLMs to see if you come up for category questions (yet). We don't render JavaScript — what you see scored is what an AI crawler sees on first fetch. We don't store the result — refresh the page and it's gone.
A score of 70+ means an AI engine asked a relevant question about your category will likely find, understand, and quote you. 40–70 is where most sites sit — fixable in a week. Below 40 means you're effectively invisible to the new ranking surface.
This tool is a first cut. It will improve. If you spot a signal we're missing, tell us.