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Free AI Readiness Test

Test how well your website is prepared for AI-powered search engines and assistants. Analyze critical technical, content, and discovery signals to ensure your site can be crawled, understood, and cited by AI models.

Features

Key AI Readiness Signals We Check.

We analyze the most important technical and content factors that determine whether AI search engines and assistants can access, understand, and cite your website.

Process

How the AI Readiness Test Works

Analyze your website in seconds. Get actionable insights to ensure AI search engines can discover and cite your content.

Enter Your Website URL

Simply paste your website URL and click analyze. We'll crawl your site and check all the critical AI readiness signals.

robots.txt Analysis

Check if GPTBot, CCBot, and other AI crawlers are allowed access to your content.

llms.txt Detection

Verify if you have an llms.txt file that provides AI usage guidelines for your site.

Sitemap Verification

Ensure your XML sitemap is properly configured for AI crawler discovery.

Get Your AI Readiness Score

Receive a comprehensive 0-100 score with detailed breakdown of all factors affecting your AI search visibility.

Visual Score Breakdown

See radar charts and bar graphs showing each factor's score for easy comparison.

Actionable Recommendations

Get specific guidance on what to fix first to maximize your AI search visibility.

Expandable Details

Click any metric to learn more about what it means and how to improve it.

AI Search Guide

AI Search Optimization Guide

Why AI Search Readiness Matters

AI-powered search engines like SearchGPT, Perplexity, and Google SGE are changing how users find information online. Instead of showing a list of links, these systems directly answer questions by citing relevant sources. If your website isn't optimized for AI crawlers, you'll be invisible to this growing segment of search traffic.

Studies show that AI-generated answers receive higher click-through rates because users trust curated citations. Being included in these answers drives qualified traffic and establishes your authority in your niche.

Understanding robots.txt for AI Bots

The robots.txt file tells web crawlers what they can and cannot access on your site. Major AI companies use specific user agents: GPTBot (OpenAI), CCBot (Common Crawl), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), and Google-Extended (Gemini). If you've blocked these bots, your content won't be indexed for AI search.

Check your robots.txt at yoursite.com/robots.txt and ensure there are no Disallow rules for AI bots you want to allow. You can also add an explicit Allow rule to be certain.

The llms.txt Standard

The llms.txt file is an emerging standard that provides AI systems with guidelines on how to use your content. Similar to robots.txt but specifically for language models, it helps you communicate your preferences about AI usage, attribution requirements, and content licensing.

Creating an llms.txt file signals to AI systems that you're aware of and prepared for AI indexing. It can include information about your site's purpose, preferred citation format, and any restrictions on content usage.

Optimizing Content Structure

AI systems parse your HTML to understand content hierarchy. Use a single H1 tag for your main title, followed by logically ordered H2 and H3 subheadings. Semantic HTML elements like <article>, <main>, and <section> help AI understand the structure and purpose of different content areas.

High readability scores also help—simpler sentences are easier for AI to parse and cite accurately. Aim for a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 8 or lower for general content.

AI Readiness Tips

  • Allow GPTBot and CCBot in robots.txt
  • Create an llms.txt file with usage guidelines
  • Ensure your sitemap.xml is up to date
  • Use proper heading hierarchy (H1→H2→H3)
  • Add complete OG tags and meta descriptions

Did You Know?

Over 30% of major websites currently block AI crawlers. This means there's a significant opportunity for sites that optimize for AI search. Being among the first in your niche to embrace AI readiness gives you a competitive advantage.

Key Metrics

Good Score

80+ AI Readiness Score

Readability

Grade 8 or below

Meta Tags

OG title, description, image

Must-Have Files

robots.txt, sitemap.xml

FAQs

Have Questions?

Clear answers to common questions about our tools,data, and how the analysis works.

AI Readiness Analysis evaluates how prepared your website is for AI-powered search and discovery. As AI assistants become a primary way people find information, businesses need to assess whether their digital strategy positions them for visibility.

Enter your URL and SnowSEO scans your site across technical, content, and authority dimensions. You receive a readiness score plus prioritized recommendations for improving visibility in AI-powered discovery channels.

Technical factors include llms.txt presence, structured data, mobile optimization, page speed. Content factors cover factual density, citation-worthiness, E-E-A-T signals, and clear answer formatting.

Authority factors assess domain strength and backlink quality. Discoverability factors evaluate current AI visibility and how accurately AI represents your brand.

They're complementary with significant overlap. Strong SEO builds authority signals AI trusts. AI Readiness adds specific optimizations: llms.txt files, AI-friendly formatting, citation optimization. Invest in both for maximum visibility.

Immediately: create llms.txt, add structured data, ensure mobile-friendliness and fast load times.

Longer-term: create comprehensive, citation-worthy content, build domain authority, establish author credentials, develop content formatted for AI citation.

It's an emerging standard helping AI understand your site. Place it at your root domain for AI systems to find. While not universally required yet, implementing it demonstrates forward thinking and gives you control over how AI perceives your brand.

Modern voice assistants use large language models for spoken responses. Voice search optimization and AI Readiness share significant overlap: clear answers, conversational language, authoritative sources, fast mobile pages.

AI Readiness is a site-wide strategic assessment. It tells you where you stand and what to prioritize. GEO is tactical, per-page content optimization focused on making specific content citation-worthy. Use AI Readiness to identify strategic gaps, then apply GEO principles to optimize specific pieces.

B2B services where buyers use AI for research. Healthcare handling health questions. Financial and legal services attracting advice queries. SaaS and technology for technical questions. E-commerce for product recommendations. Education and training. Local businesses for location queries.

Query major AI tools about topics in your expertise area. Include your brand name directly in queries. Track referral traffic from AI platforms. Our analysis includes citation-worthiness signals.

Yes. Small businesses may actually benefit more from early optimization. They can establish authority before larger competitors focus on this channel. The investment is modest and overlaps with SEO efforts.

FAQ schema for question-answer content. Article schema for publishing metadata. Organization schema for company information. Person schema for author credentials. Product and service schemas. Review and rating schemas.

Include specific data: statistics, percentages, dates. Structure content with direct questions and answers. Be comprehensive. Include author credentials. Update regularly. Create original research or unique data AI can't find elsewhere.

It summarizes your overall preparedness across technical implementation, content quality, authority signals, and discoverability. Higher scores indicate stronger positioning. Individual factor scores show where gaps exist.

Creating llms.txt takes minutes. Adding structured data can be done in hours. Technical optimizations may take days to weeks.

Authority building takes months. Content improvements depend on publishing velocity. Expect quick gains from technical changes while building toward larger improvements.

As AI-powered discovery grows, traffic increasingly comes from users who interacted with AI first. Sites with strong AI Readiness capture this emerging channel. Sites that ignore it risk invisibility as discovery patterns shift.

Competitors capture questions your audience used to bring to you. AI may misrepresent your brand. You miss an emerging channel. The risk isn't sudden collapse but gradual erosion as AI handles more queries.

Is your website ready for the new AI Era?

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