AEO Improvement
2026 AI Citation Readiness Benchmark | AEO Improvement
A living, anonymized benchmark of the technical and content gaps that keep websites out of ChatGPT and AI-generated answers.
Audit, simulate, improve, and monitor
AEO Improvement checks citability, brand authority, AI crawler access, technical SEO, schema markup, and per-platform readiness. Recommendations include their evidence source and remain in a domain-level checklist until the user marks them complete.
Current methodology
Citation-path bots are scored separately from training bots. OAI-SearchBot controls ChatGPT search discovery while GPTBot is used for model training. llms.txt is treated as optional because it is not a demonstrated citation gate. Fresh, server-visible content and explicit last-updated dates receive higher priority.