Benchmarks
How sites score for AI visibility
Aggregate data from public GEO audits: median scores, the most common blocking issues, and what percentage of sites are missing critical AI visibility signals. All data is anonymous; no individual brand or domain is ever identified.
Headline statistics
Public audits
49
total in dataset
Median Readiness
65
out of 100
Blocking AI crawlers
4%
have at least one crawler blocked
FAQ schema
24%
have FAQPage structured data
Score distribution
How audited sites are distributed across the Readiness score range.
Signal snapshot
What percentage of audited sites have each key signal in place.
Have at least one AI crawler blocked
4%Blocked crawlers are the most common critical issue. ChatGPT cannot cite a site that blocks OAI-SearchBot.
Have FAQ structured data (FAQPage schema)
24%FAQPage schema is the strongest on-page structured data signal for AI citation probability.
Have a freshness signal (date metadata)
65%Perplexity applies aggressive recency filtering. Missing date metadata means the page is treated as potentially stale.
Are heavily JavaScript-rendered
31%AI crawlers fetch raw HTML without executing JavaScript. JS-heavy pages may appear nearly empty to them.
Lead with a direct answer (answer-first)
82%44% of ChatGPT citations come from content in the first third of the page. Answer-first structure is the strongest extractability signal.
Average scores by signal category
Where audited sites tend to score well, and where most fall short.
Most common issues
The issues that appear most frequently across audited sites, ranked by prevalence.
Percentage indicates how many audited sites have this issue.
Data computed at Aug 21, 2026, 2:46 AM from 49 public audits.
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