ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude now answer questions your customers used to Google. If your site isn't structured for them, you're invisible in those answers. Paste a URL. Get a readability score and the exact fixes that move it.
Send me your URL and I'll tell you the three highest-leverage changes I'd make first, free. It's the same AI Search / AEO audit I run for founders and service businesses.
The AEO Checker is a free answer engine optimization tool that tests whether a webpage is easy for AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini to crawl, parse, summarize, and cite. Paste a URL and it returns a readability score with a prioritized list of fixes, no signup, nothing stored.
Founders, marketers, and service businesses whose buyers are starting to ask AI for recommendations instead of scrolling search results. If your page ranks on Google but never shows up when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for the best option in your category, this tool shows you why.
The score is built from concrete, verifiable signals, not an AI guess. It weighs five things:
Each check maps to a specific, fixable deficit.
Answer engines favor pages that state the answer first, use clear H2 and H3 sections that match real questions, keep important copy as visible HTML text, and carry structured data that labels the entity on the page. They struggle with JavaScript-only content, vague hero copy, image-only explanations, and thin pages with little to quote. The checker tests your page against each of these.
Lead each section with an answer-first sentence, add the schema types that fit your content (Article, FAQ, SoftwareApplication, Organization), make sure your core explanation is server-rendered text, and add clear definitions, dates, and examples that are easy to quote. Then re-run the checker to confirm the fix. If you would rather not do it yourself, the option below connects the free scan to a full audit.
It tests AI crawler access, text extractability, heading structure, schema and entity clarity, and answer-first copy, then returns a score with a ranked fix list.
No. No tool can force an AI engine to cite a page. Citation depends on query wording, model behavior, source freshness, authority, and competing pages. The checker improves your odds by making the page more understandable; it cannot promise placement.
SEO optimizes a page to rank in a list of links. AEO optimizes a page to be understood and cited inside an AI-generated answer. AEO is a second layer on top of SEO, not a replacement.
Visible HTML text, clear definitions, dated examples, structured sections, concise summaries, and pages that answer specific questions. Content hidden behind JavaScript or images is often missed.
No. Each scan reads the live page once to analyze it and keeps nothing afterward.
Yes. Send your URL and you will get the three highest-leverage changes to make first, free. It is the same AI Search / AEO audit run for founders and service businesses.
Every check is a concrete, verifiable signal (crawler access, structured data, content clarity, technical hygiene), not an AI guessing. Nothing is stored; each scan reads the live page once.
Built by Vishesh Kulshrestha · part of vishkul/tools.