# Answerworthy: Be the answer AI engines cite

> Answerworthy measures how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude talk about your brand, scores whether AI can read your site, and tells you what to fix.

Answerworthy shows you what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude say about your brand, scores
whether AI can actually read your site, and turns both into a ranked list of fixes.

- Scan your site free: https://app.aeo-test.ai
- How it works: https://answerworthy.ai/product
- What is AEO?: https://answerworthy.ai/guides/what-is-aeo

## Why AI search needs its own playbook

- **Zero** JavaScript executed by major AI crawlers. A measurement of roughly one billion requests found GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot execute no JavaScript at all: they only read raw HTML. (Source: Vercel crawler study, as of December 2024: https://vercel.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-ai-crawler)
- **~18×** fewer citations for pages that fail to fetch. Pages with fetch-failure rates above 75% received roughly 18 times fewer OpenAI citation events in a ~700,000-page analysis. (Source: iPullRank / Profound, as of May 2026: https://ipullrank.com/page-speed-impacts)
- **9–17%** visitor-to-signup conversion from AI referrals. Sessions referred by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude convert at 9–17%, versus roughly 2% for classic organic search traffic. (Source: Averi citation analysis, as of mid-2026: https://www.demandlocal.com/blog/chatgpt-and-perplexity-citation-roi-statistics/)

## What Answerworthy measures

### Measurement: What does AI actually say about you?

- Runs a panel of your buyers’ real questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude on their native APIs
- Records whether you are named, cited, or invisible, and who gets recommended instead
- Tracks share of answer over time, per engine and per question

### Readiness: Can AI reach, read and understand your site?

- 91 deterministic checks across crawl access, structured data, entity signals, answer liftability and site foundation
- Fetches your pages exactly as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot do, so bot walls and ghost content show up immediately
- Every failed check maps to a concrete, ranked fix

## How it works

1. **Scan.** Point Answerworthy at your domain. It reads your site the way AI crawlers do and scores 91 readiness checks in minutes.
2. **Measure.** Your buyers’ questions run through the AI engines that matter. You see exactly where you are cited and where competitors own the answer.
3. **Fix.** Both dimensions collapse into one ranked fix list: what to change, why it matters, and proof when the change lands.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

Answer Engine Optimization is the practice of making your brand visible and citable inside AI-generated answers from engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude: measuring what they say about you, and structuring your site so they can read, trust and quote it.

### How is AEO different from SEO?

SEO earns you a position in a list of links; AEO earns you a place inside the answer itself. The overlap is real but incomplete: AI engines reward raw-HTML readability, extractable answers and entity clarity far more heavily than classic ranking signals.

### How does Answerworthy measure AI visibility?

It runs a panel of questions your buyers actually ask through each AI engine’s native API, then records citations, mentions and recommendations per engine over time. Raw responses are stored, so every claim in your dashboard is backed by an actual answer.

### Will this site itself score well on Answerworthy?

Yes. This website is scanned by the platform it markets: it ships every quotable word in raw HTML, hand-authored structured data, an authored llms.txt, and markdown versions of every page. The score is public proof the advice works.