Free AEO Checker
Check how visible your content is across AI search engines. Get an AEO score with actionable recommendations to improve your AI rankings.
What This Tool Measures
The AEO Score analyzes your webpage across six critical factors that determine whether AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can find, understand, and recommend your content.
- Content Structure: Clear headings, semantic HTML, logical organization
- Content Quality: Value, depth, authority, and originality
- Technical SEO: Load speed, mobile optimization, core vitals
- Schema Markup: Structured data that AI systems can parse
- AI Accessibility: llms.txt files, context documents, sitemaps
- E-E-A-T Signals: Expertise, experience, authority, trustworthiness
How to Use Your Results
You'll receive an overall score (0-100) plus individual scores for each category. More importantly, you'll get prioritized recommendations ranked by impact and effort.
What Your Score Means
- 80-100: Excellent AI visibility—minor optimizations only
- 60-79: Good foundation, but clear improvements needed
- 40-59: Significant gaps—AI likely overlooks your content
- 0-39: Critical issues—invisible to AI platforms
Next Steps:
- Download your report for reference
- Start with high-impact, low-effort fixes first
- Use our other tools to generate missing files (llms.txt, schema markup)
- Re-test after implementing changes to track improvement
What Is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring your content so that AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews can find, understand, and cite it when answering user questions. While traditional SEO focuses on ranking in a list of blue links, AEO focuses on being the source that AI systems reference in their responses.
The shift matters because more people are getting answers directly from AI. When someone asks ChatGPT "what is the best way to validate emails in Laravel?" or Perplexity "how do I add schema markup to my site?", AI platforms pull from indexed web content to form their answers. If your content is well-structured, authoritative, and easy for machines to parse, you are more likely to be cited.
How AEO differs from SEO
SEO and AEO are complementary, not competing. Good SEO practices (clear headings, fast load times, quality content) help with AEO too. But AEO adds new requirements:
- Structured data (JSON-LD): Schema markup helps AI systems categorize your content. FAQ schemas, HowTo schemas, and Article schemas give AI explicit signals about what your content covers.
- Direct answers: AI platforms prefer content that answers questions concisely. Write clear, factual statements that can be extracted as standalone answers rather than burying information in long paragraphs.
- AI accessibility files: Formats like llms.txt and llms-ctx.txt tell AI crawlers what your site is about and where to find key content. Think of them as robots.txt for AI platforms.
- E-E-A-T signals: AI platforms weigh expertise, experience, authority, and trustworthiness when deciding which sources to cite. Author bios, publishing dates, citations, and domain authority all contribute.
What makes a good AEO score?
An AEO score of 80 or above means your content is well-positioned for AI citations. Scores between 60 and 79 indicate a solid foundation with room for improvement. Below 60, there are significant gaps that likely prevent AI platforms from understanding or recommending your content.
The most common issues we see are missing schema markup (especially FAQ and Article schemas), lack of llms.txt files, poor heading structure, and content that talks around topics without giving direct answers. All of these are fixable, and most take under an hour to implement.
Who needs AEO?
Any website that relies on organic discovery should care about AEO. SaaS companies, content publishers, documentation sites, e-commerce brands, and professional services firms all benefit from AI visibility. If people in your industry are using ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude to research products and solutions, your content needs to be optimized for those platforms.
This is still early. Most websites have not started optimizing for AI search, which means the opportunity for early movers is significant. The companies that invest in AEO now will have a compounding advantage as AI-driven search continues to grow.