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Citability Score

Your Citability Score measures how ready a page is to be quoted by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. It reads the HTML a crawler actually receives and looks at four things: how the answer is formatted, the evidence behind it, freshness, and whether AI crawlers can get in. The score, a verdict on each and your biggest fix are free.

Free, no account. We read one page as Ranklet-Audit, the same way an AI crawler would, and honour your robots.txt.

What we check

  • Answer formatting

    Does the page open with a direct answer, and answer the questions people ask next?

  • Evidence

    Are its claims backed by attributed figures, with links to where they came from?

  • Freshness

    Can a reader, and an engine, see when the page was last updated?

  • Crawler access

    Can AI search crawlers fetch the page, and is its content in the HTML they receive?

Two more checks need a target keyword, so they run only when you audit a page from a Ranklet brief.

Questions

How is the score calculated?
Fixed rules, no AI judgement: the same page always gets the same score. Evidence and answer formatting count most, because attributed figures and direct answers are what AI engines quote. A page that search crawlers can't reach can't score high, however well it's written.
Why is my score low when the content is good?
Your robots.txt may block a crawler that feeds AI answers, such as OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot or Googlebot. No content fix changes that, so the score stays low until the crawler is allowed back in. The report names the crawler when this happens.
Does a high score guarantee AI citations?
No. The score measures whether your page can be lifted and trusted as an answer. Engines also weigh the query, your authority and the competing pages.
Why don't you score FAQ schema or llms.txt?
Google retired the FAQ rich result on 7 May 2026, and a 1,885-page controlled test showed no AI-citation effect. 97% of valid llms.txt files in a 137,000-domain study got no requests. We report both but don't score them.
Is this the same as Ranklet's page audit?
Same engine. The in-app audit adds the two checks that need your target keyword, and coaching on your opening paragraph.
Why couldn't you check my page?
Your robots.txt blocks Ranklet-Audit, the page took longer than 10 seconds, or it's larger than 5 MB.