A scan of stripe.com across two dimensions. Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews find and read your site, and would they actually quote it when users ask?
Reachable, but the read is rougher than it should be.
— aeo readinessEngines can quote you, but the answer takes some digging.
Three checks decide whether AI can see your site at all. Are you blocking AI bots, can they read your page without running JavaScript, and does any meta tag silently turn them away? If this section fails, the rest of the report is academic. AI literally cannot read content it cannot reach.
How this section is scored ↗Server-side rendering is the foundational fix here. Until AI bots can read your page without running JavaScript, none of the other checks in this report matter.
Beyond your HTML pages, modern AI agents look for specific files that tell them how to navigate your site and which pages are worth their attention.
How this section is scored ↗Content updated in the last 30 days gets cited roughly 3.2× more than content over 90 days old. Refresh your top pages and add visible last-updated dates.
AI models don't read your page like a human. They look for a machine-readable record that says who you are, what you sell, and whether you're credible. Without it, your site reads as anonymous text.
How this section is scored ↗Add named bylines and short bios to your articles. AI weights content with visible authorship higher when picking what to cite, and this is a content-side fix you can ship without engineering.
Even perfect writing gets skipped if it's not arranged the way AI models prefer to quote: short self-contained paragraphs, clean headings, lists, comparison pages, and callouts. These checks look at the *shape* of your content: the way you answer (answer-first structure, citable stats, freshness) is scored separately under Answerability.
How this section is scored ↗Publish one or two comparison pages (e.g. 'stripe.com vs [Competitor]'): comparison pages own the highest-intent 'X vs Y' prompts, and they're often the first thing AI cites for tool recommendations.
Each platform weights different signals. This section scores how well you're set up for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews specifically.
How this section is scored ↗Two final hygiene checks: that AI sees one consistent brand identity across every signal on your site, and that your server can hand back a clean markdown version of each page when AI requests one. Both are quiet wins; neither lands in a homepage hero, but both shift how cleanly AI quotes you.
How this section is scored ↗Returning a clean markdown version when AI requests it (via `Accept: text/markdown`) is one of the rarer signals on the web. Few sites ship this; doing so makes your content cleaner to quote and harder to misquote.
Once engines can read your site, do they want to quote you? These checks score the shape of your answers: schema, structure, attribution, and the markers that make a page citable in an AI answer.
How this section is scored ↗Add a FAQPage JSON-LD block with 3-5 of your most-asked questions.