Is your website ready for AI search?
Start with access: check crawler rules, public availability and whether your main answer is present in the initial HTML. The AI readiness checklist identifies technical barriers; it cannot predict citations. Your overall score appears first; email unlocks the detailed GEO breakdown and report.
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OpenAI: crawler controls · Google: AI Search requirements
What we check for AI readiness
Machine-extractable structured data
Whether your page exposes JSON-LD schema so AI engines can read your facts and entities without guessing.
Clear, quotable content
Answer-first paragraphs, definitions and Q&A that language models can lift directly into an answer.
Clean heading structure
A logical H1–H3 outline that tells AI engines what each section is about.
Crawlability for AI bots
Whether robots rules let the AI search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended) reach your content.
Content in the HTML
That your core content is server-rendered and readable without executing JavaScript, which many AI crawlers don't run.
Facts, entities & freshness
Signals that help an AI engine trust and attribute your page as a source worth citing.
Access example: search and training are separate choices
A robots.txt policy can allow OAI-SearchBot while blocking GPTBot. OpenAI identifies these as separate search and training controls. Inspect crawler rules and the initial HTML first, then use the GEO checker to interpret the wider content score. Google Search AI features follow Search eligibility; Google-Extended is a separate Gemini control. Neither an llms.txt file nor a special AI schema guarantees inclusion.
What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?
GEO, or Generative Engine Optimization, is the practice of making your website easy for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to read and cite — the AI-era counterpart to SEO. Instead of only ranking in a list of blue links, the goal is to be the source an AI quotes in its answer. That rewards structured data, clear definitions, question-and-answer content and quotable, factual writing.
Why AI readiness matters now
A growing share of searches never reach a traditional results page — people ask ChatGPT or read Google's AI Overview instead. If AI engines can't parse or trust your site, you're invisible in exactly the place attention is moving to. Checking your AI readiness now, while the space is new, is the cheapest time to get ahead of competitors who still optimize for links alone.
GEO vs SEO — what's the difference?
SEO optimizes for ranking in search results; GEO optimizes for being cited inside AI-generated answers. They overlap — clean, fast, well-structured pages help both — but GEO leans harder on machine-readable structure and quotable, factual content. WebAnalyzer scores both, alongside performance, accessibility and security, so you see the whole picture in one report rather than guessing.
Frequently asked questions
Is my website ready for ChatGPT?
Run WebAnalyzer's AI readiness check to find out. It scores whether ChatGPT and other AI engines can read and cite your page — structured data, clean HTML, clear headings and quotable content — and shows exactly what to fix if your GEO score is low.
Will ChatGPT or Perplexity cite my website?
A technical scan cannot determine that. It can detect access and HTML barriers and assess content structure. Track actual citations and qualified referrals to measure AI visibility; no score guarantees inclusion.
What is a GEO score?
A GEO score is WebAnalyzer's 0–100 rating of your site's Generative Engine Optimization — how ready it is to be read and cited by AI answer engines. A low score means AI engines struggle with your page; a high score means your content is structured and quotable.
How do I get cited by AI search engines?
Make your content easy to read and trust: add JSON-LD structured data, use clear headings and answer-first paragraphs, keep core content in server-rendered HTML, and allow the AI search crawlers in robots.txt. WebAnalyzer flags which of these you're missing.
How do I check my website's AI readiness?
Paste a public domain or page URL. The initial result is the overall score across eight areas; email unlocks the requested dimension breakdown and report. Three successful analyses per network are free each UTC day.
What should an AI readiness checklist include?
At minimum: AI search crawlers allowed in robots.txt, core content present in server-rendered HTML, JSON-LD structured data, one clear H1 with a logical heading outline, answer-first paragraphs, question-shaped headings, quotable facts with dates, and author/entity information an engine can attribute. WebAnalyzer tests all of these automatically.
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