AEOCrawler is an AEO checker that scores any page for AI citation before you publish.

AEOCrawler scores any page or draft from 0 to 100 for how likely an answer engine is to cite it. In short, the check grades nine weighted dimensions, names the two or three that cost the most points, and returns the literal text to insert. Three checks per day are free and need no account.

Paste a URL. A score comes back in about fifteen seconds.

What does an AEO checker measure?

An AEO checker answers one question. If ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews or Claude were asked the question this page answers, would this page be the source it quotes?

That is not the same question as whether the page ranks. A page can hold position three in Google and appear in no AI answer at all, because answer engines select for extractability and source-worthiness, not for link authority alone.

Which nine dimensions does AEOCrawler score?

AEOCrawler scores nine dimensions. Each carries a fixed weight; the weights sum to 1.0 and produce one composite called the AI Visibility Score. The model runs at engine version 2.17.0.

The nine AEO dimensions and their weights in the composite score
Dimension	Weight	What it measures
Direct Answer	0.20	Whether the opening names its subject and states an answer that survives being lifted out of the page.
Citation Potential	0.18	Atomic, attributable facts, figures, dates and tables an engine can quote with attribution.
Structured Data	0.12	Valid Schema.org markup an engine parses without inference.
Entity Clarity	0.12	Whether the primary entity is named, defined and repeated rather than pointed at with pronouns.
Query Coverage	0.10	How many distinct sub-questions around the topic the page answers.
Semantic Coverage	0.10	Depth of topical vocabulary relative to the subject.
Conciseness	0.07	Whether information is front-loaded or buried under an introduction.
Readability	0.06	Whether the text parses cleanly at sentence level.
Content Freshness	0.05	Whether the page carries a machine-readable last-updated signal.

Why does scoring before publication matter?

Most AEO tools are monitors. They report which prompts mention a brand after the content is already live, so the feedback arrives weeks after the writing decision that caused it. Scoring a draft before it ships is a different job, and for most teams the two are complementary rather than alternatives. Our comparison pages for Profound, Otterly.AI and Peec AI set out where each one fits.

A checker inverts the order. The score exists while the draft is still editable, so a weak opening is a paragraph to rewrite rather than a quarter of missed citations to explain.

The difference is illustrated by a single-page before/after test AEOCrawler ran on its own corpus in August 2026, not a statistical study across many pages. A page whose opening named its subject and stated an explicit answer scored 85 on Direct Answer. The identical page, rewritten only to describe a category instead of naming the product, scored 60. One paragraph, 25 points of the heaviest-weighted dimension, 5 points of composite score.

What does the free AEO check return?

The free check returns the composite score, all nine dimension scores with their weights, and a ranked list of what costs the most points. It runs the same engine that scores paying customers' pages. It is the full model, not a reduced preview.

The fix list, the rewritten text to paste in, and multi-page crawling require a free account.

How does AEOCrawler differ from other AEO checkers?

Free AEO checkers commonly return a single grade from a handful of factors. AEOCrawler scores nine weighted dimensions and returns the arithmetic: which dimension, at what weight, costing how many points of composite. A grade says the page is weak. A weighted breakdown says which paragraph to rewrite first.

AEOCrawler also versions the engine. Every score carries the engine version that produced it, currently 2.17.0. A score that moves between two runs can therefore be attributed either to the page changing or to the engine changing. Without that field the two are indistinguishable, and a content regression can hide behind an engine improvement.

How do I improve a low AEO score?

Start with the heaviest dimension the check flags. In practice that is almost always Direct Answer, at weight 0.20.

Name the subject in the first sentence. "AEOCrawler is a checker that…" is quotable; "It is a tool that…" cannot be lifted into an answer.
State the answer explicitly, in 40 to 60 words, before any introduction.
Give one attributable fact per paragraph: a number, a date, a named source.
Head each section with the question a reader would actually type.
Publish a machine-readable last-updated date. Pages refreshed within roughly 30 days earn materially more AI citations.

Frequently asked questions

Is the AEO checker free?

Three checks per IP address per day are free and require no account. The composite score, the nine dimension scores and the ranked gap list are all included in the free check.

Can it score a draft that is not published yet?

Yes. The checker accepts a public URL. For an unpublished draft, publish it to a staging URL reachable without authentication, or paste the content directly in the app.

What AEO score is good?

Above 80 is the working threshold for an article. Commercial pages such as landing and comparison pages are measured against their own baseline instead, because their structure legitimately differs from an article’s.

Does structured data improve AI citation?

Structured data helps parsing and traditional rich results, and Bing Copilot uses it. Several independent tests have found no consistent citation lift from adding schema on Google AI Overviews. Treat schema as cheap insurance rather than a primary lever.

Which answer engines does the model target?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude and Bing Copilot. As of September 2026, published documentation and observed behaviour indicate that none of them runs JavaScript when it fetches a page to cite. That can change without notice. Do not rely on client-side rendering either way.

Why is my page not cited even with a high score?

On-page score governs extraction, not selection. An answer engine must first consider the page at all, and that depends on off-site authority: brand mentions, third-party listicles, forum presence and traditional rankings. A high score makes a considered page quotable. It does not make the page considered.

Last updated 3 September 2026. Scoring engine version 2.17.0.