Free AI Visibility Audit, Instant Result, No Signup
Enter a domain and get a 0 to 100 AI Readiness Score. Six deterministic checks measure whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can find, read, and cite your site. A full AEO and GEO audit in one pass.
Enter a domain to get a 0 to 100 AI Readiness Score, a points breakdown across six checks, and a fix list ordered by how many points each item recovers.
What Is an AI Visibility Audit?
An AI visibility audit tests whether AI answer engines can reach your site, read it, work out who you are, and quote you. That is what the scan above runs, against your live domain, in a single pass. It is the same ground covered by the terms AEO, answer engine optimization, and GEO, generative engine optimization, which describe the same discipline from two directions.
AI search visibility is whether a generative answer engine can reach your site, read it without executing JavaScript, work out which business it belongs to, and quote it in an answer. It is not the same problem as ranking. Classic SEO asks where you sit in a list of ten blue links. AI visibility asks whether you make it into a single synthesised paragraph that names three sources and ignores everything else.
The mechanics are different in one way that matters more than any other. Most AI crawlers fetch your HTML and stop. They do not run your JavaScript bundle, they do not wait for hydration, and they do not see the content your framework paints after the first byte. A React or Vue site that renders everything on the client hands an answer engine a near-empty document, no matter how well it performs in Google, which does render JavaScript.
A free GEO audit like this one names the problems and puts them in order. Our SEO and GEO service covers the implementation side when the fix list runs deeper than a robots.txt edit.
How Do I Run a ChatGPT SEO Check on My Website?
Two checks answer it. First, request your homepage without a browser and count the visible text in the response. If a curl request returns 200 characters of navigation and nothing else, that is what ChatGPT gets. Second, open your robots.txt and look for the agent names. GPTBot handles OpenAI's crawling, OAI-SearchBot serves ChatGPT Search, ClaudeBot serves Anthropic, PerplexityBot serves Perplexity, and Google-Extended governs Gemini and AI Overviews grounding without touching your Google Search ranking.
The resolution rule catches people out. Under RFC 9309, a crawler that has no group of its own and no wildcard group covering it is allowed. Absence of a rule is permission, not refusal. The most specific matching group wins, and within it the longest matching path rule wins, with Allow beating Disallow on a tie. Plenty of sites believe they are blocking AI crawlers when their robots.txt says nothing relevant at all, and plenty of others block them by accident with a broad wildcard Disallow.
The scanner above runs both checks against your live domain and reports the exact character count and the exact rule that decided each verdict. For a rule-by-rule view of every crawler, use the AI crawler access checker.
Why Is My Site Not Showing Up in AI Answers?
Four causes account for most cases, in this order.
- 01The site is client-rendered and returns an empty shell. The engine reads a loading state and moves to the next source.
- 02Robots.txt blocks the agents, often through a blanket rule written years ago for scrapers.
- 03There is no structured data, so nothing in the document states which organisation the site belongs to or how it connects to any verified profile.
- 04The brand has no independent footprint. With no consistent name, description, and profile set across the web, the engine cannot resolve the entity and will not risk attributing a claim to it.
None of the four is fixed by ranking higher. They are fixed by changing what your server returns and what the wider web says about your name.
Does This Audit Cover Google AI Overviews?
It covers the preconditions, not the outcome. A free AI Overview checker can tell you whether Googlebot and Google-Extended are allowed to reach you, whether your content is present in the HTML response, and whether your structured data states which organisation the page belongs to. Fail any of those and an AI Overview cannot use you. Pass all of them and you are eligible, which is not the same as included.
The two Google agents pull in opposite directions and get confused constantly. Blocking Google-Extended does not affect your Google Search ranking, but it does remove your content from Gemini grounding and AI Overviews. Blocking Googlebot removes you from Google Search altogether, AI Overviews included. The scan above resolves both.
What no free tool can tell you is whether you appear in an AI Overview for a given query today. Overviews vary by query, country, account, and week, and Google exposes no interface for checking them at scale. Any tool that promises a definitive answer is sampling a handful of prompts and presenting it as coverage. We would rather report what is measurable and say so.
What Does This Free AI Visibility Audit Check?
One hundred points across six checks, covering both the AEO and the GEO side of the problem. Every point is a fetch or a parse, so the same site scores the same way every time. No language model is called and nothing is estimated.
| Check | Points | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Crawl access | 20 | Effective robots.txt rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and Googlebot, resolved the way RFC 9309 defines it. |
| Server-rendered content | 20 | Visible text in the raw homepage HTML after script, style, and SVG are stripped. Reported as an exact character count. |
| Structured data | 20 | Every JSON-LD block parsed. Points for Organization or LocalBusiness, sameAs links, WebSite, and an answer-bearing type such as FAQPage, Article, Product, or Service. |
| Answer-first structure | 15 | H2 and H3 headings phrased as questions, presence of tables and substantive lists, and whether headings are descriptive rather than generic slogans. |
| AI context files | 10 | Whether /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt return real plain text rather than your app shell. |
| Entity presence | 15 | A free Wikidata lookup for the brand name derived from the domain. If the API is unavailable, the section is excluded and the score is rescaled. |
How Do I Read My AI Readiness Score?
| Score | Band | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 80 to 100 | Strong | Engines can find, read, and attribute the site. Move on to measuring citations. |
| 60 to 79 | Workable | Foundations are in place. A short fix list closes the gap. |
| 40 to 59 | At risk | Reachable but hard to extract or trust. Expect to be skipped for clearer sources. |
| 0 to 39 | Invisible | An answer engine gets almost nothing usable. Fix the top item first. |
One caveat we will not bury. The score measures whether engines can read and understand your site. It does not measure whether they are citing you today. Citation depends on the prompt, the engine, the country, and the competing sources, none of which a deterministic scan can observe. Treat a high score as the removal of technical reasons to skip you, not as proof of coverage.
Which Fix Should I Do First?
Work in the order the scanner gives you, because it sorts by points recoverable, and points map to how much of the site an engine can actually use. In practice the sequence is almost always the same: open crawl access, then move content into the HTML response, then declare the entity in JSON-LD, then restructure the page around questions, then publish the context files, then build the external footprint.
The first two are engineering work measured in days. The last one is a slow build measured in months, so start it early and in parallel. Two of the fixes have their own tools here: schema markup generator for the JSON-LD, and the llms.txt generator for the context files.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AI search visibility?
AI search visibility is whether generative answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude can reach your site, read its content without running JavaScript, understand what your business is, and quote it as a source. It is a different problem from ranking. A page can sit at position one in Google and still be invisible to an answer engine that cannot parse it.
How does the AI Visibility Checker calculate the score?
The tool runs six deterministic checks against your live domain and awards 100 points in total: crawl access in robots.txt for 20 points, server-rendered text in the homepage HTML for 20 points, JSON-LD structured data for 20 points, answer-first heading and table structure for 15 points, the presence of llms.txt and llms-full.txt for 10 points, and a Wikidata entity match for the brand name for 15 points. No language model is involved. Every point comes from a real fetch or a real parse, so the same site scores the same way every time.
How do I check if ChatGPT can read my website?
Fetch your own homepage with JavaScript disabled and see how much text you get, then open your robots.txt and look for rules naming GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot. If the raw HTML is close to empty, or either agent is disallowed, ChatGPT cannot use your content. This tool does both checks for you and reports the exact character count of the visible text in your server response.
Why is my site not showing up in AI answers?
The four common causes, in order of frequency, are a client-rendered site that returns an empty HTML shell to crawlers that do not execute JavaScript, robots.txt rules that block the AI agents, no structured data telling the engine which entity the site belongs to, and no independent sources that confirm the brand exists. Ranking well in Google does not fix any of the four.
Does blocking AI crawlers hurt my visibility?
It depends on which agent you block. Blocking GPTBot removes your content from OpenAI's training and retrieval corpus. Blocking OAI-SearchBot removes you from ChatGPT Search results specifically. Blocking Google-Extended does not affect Google Search ranking, but it does remove your content from Gemini grounding and AI Overviews. Under RFC 9309, a crawler with no matching rule and no wildcard rule is allowed, so silence is permission.
Is a high AI Readiness Score a guarantee that AI will cite me?
No. This tool measures whether engines can find, read, and understand your site. It does not measure whether they are citing you today. Actual citation depends on the prompt, the engine, the country, competing sources, and model updates, none of which a deterministic scan can observe. A high score removes the technical reasons you would be skipped, it does not create demand for your content.
What is llms.txt and do I need it?
llms.txt is a plain-text file at your domain root that tells AI systems what your site is and points them at the pages that matter, in the same spirit as robots.txt or a sitemap. llms-full.txt carries the expanded content in one file. Adoption is not universal across engines yet, so treat it as cheap insurance rather than a requirement. It costs an hour to publish and it cannot hurt you.
We fix the list, then make the site worth citing.
Elshorafa Co is a research-first marketing and strategy consultancy for the GCC. We rebuild the technical layer, the structured data, and the content that answer engines quote, then track what changes.