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How AEO-ready is your page? Score it 0–100.

The WisWes AEO checker fetches any page the way ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews do — raw HTML, no JavaScript — and runs 25 live checks: crawler access, answer-first content, question-shaped headings, structured data, extractability and freshness. You get a 0–100 score and the exact fixes, in impact order.

Checks run live: we fetch your page the way an AI crawler does — raw HTML, no JavaScript — plus your robots.txt and a GPTBot-user-agent probe. Nothing is stored.

What the score measures

Answer engines do three things with your page: fetch it, extract a passage from it, and decide whether to trust it enough to cite. The six categories map onto that pipeline:

  • Can answer engines reach it? (22 pts) — HTTP health, robots.txt rules for GPTBot / ClaudeBot / PerplexityBot / OAI-SearchBot / Google-Extended, a live GPTBot user-agent probe, and whether the content exists without JavaScript.
  • Answer-first content (20 pts) — a self-contained 25–90 word answer at the top, no dangling pronouns, the entity named next to the claims, enough substance, lists or tables.
  • Question-shaped structure (12 pts) — one H1, real sections, and headings phrased the way buyers phrase prompts.
  • Structured data (24 pts) — valid JSON-LD, FAQPage, a page-type schema, an Organization entity with sameAs profiles, breadcrumbs, and honest dates.
  • Metadata & extractability (14 pts) — title, description, canonical, Open Graph, concrete numbers, digestible paragraphs.
  • Freshness & authorship (8 pts) — an identifiable author and a recent, machine-readable last-updated date.

New to the topic? Read the companion guide: What is AEO — and why your best pages get skipped by AI answers.

AEO checker — frequently asked questions

What is an AEO score?

An AEO score measures how well a page is prepared for AI answer engines — ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot. The WisWes checker scores 0–100 across six areas: crawler access, answer-first content, question-shaped headings, structured data, metadata & extractability, and freshness & authorship. 80+ means the page has the shape answer engines cite.

How does the WisWes AEO checker work?

The checker fetches your page the way an answer engine does — raw HTML, no JavaScript rendering — then runs 25 machine checks on it. It also fetches your robots.txt to see whether AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot are allowed, and probes your page with a GPTBot user-agent to detect CDN or firewall blocking. Nothing is stored.

Why does my page score low even though it ranks well in Google?

SEO and AEO reward different things. Google ranks a whole page; an answer engine extracts a passage. A page can rank #1 while being hard to quote — no self-contained answer in the first paragraph, no FAQ schema, headings that are labels rather than questions, or a Cloudflare setting silently blocking AI crawlers. The checker flags exactly which of those apply.

What is the single highest-impact AEO fix?

Crawler access. If GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot or OAI-SearchBot get a 403 from your CDN or are blocked in robots.txt, no amount of content work matters — the engines that would cite you cannot read you. After that: lead every key page with a 40–60 word direct answer, and add page-scoped FAQPage schema.

Does the checker render JavaScript like a real browser?

No — deliberately. Most answer-engine crawlers and live-retrieval fetchers read the server HTML and render little or no JavaScript. If your content only appears after client-side rendering, it is invisible to them, and the checker will show that with a low word count in the "readable without JavaScript" check.

Is a high AEO score a guarantee of being cited by ChatGPT or Perplexity?

No. The score covers the machine-checkable layer: crawlability, structure, schema, extractability, freshness. Whether you actually get cited also depends on things no tool can score — whether your content contains genuinely useful answers, original data, and a trusted entity. A high score removes the technical reasons you would be skipped.

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