AI is the front door to the internet now. Most sites are invisible or unreadable to it. Paste a URL and get a graded report card on how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and autonomous agents can find, read, understand, and cite you.
Can agents even get in? robots.txt, AI-crawler rules, sitemaps, noindex, soft 404s, page bloat.
Can they parse meaning? Titles, headings, schema, semantics, alt text, hidden content.
Formatted as the answer? Direct lead, question headings, lists and tables.
Will AI quote you? Clean extractable text, quotable lead, FAQ, authorship.
A credible source? HTTPS, entity schema + sameAs, about/contact, citations.
Enough substance to cite? Length, sections, media, concrete data.
Is it current? Visible and structured dates, sitemap lastmod.
Forward-looking: llms.txt, markdown routes, MCP cards, agent discovery.
Fast enough to get rendered? Real-user Core Web Vitals from Chrome.
AI is becoming the front door to the internet. If ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews can’t read or understand your site, you’re invisible to a fast-growing slice of how people find things.
GEO (generative engine optimization) and AEO (answer engine optimization) are the practice of making your site easy for AI systems - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews - to read, understand, and cite, instead of just ranking in blue links. GEO is about being surfaced in AI-generated answers; AEO is about formatting your content as the direct answer. AgentGrade grades how ready your page is for both.
It measures how findable, readable, and citable your page is to AI agents and answer engines. AgentGrade scores yours from 0 to 100 (an A-F grade) across nine weighted categories - crawlability, machine understanding, answer readiness, citability, trust, performance, and more - so you can see exactly what’s helping or hurting you.
Paste your URL above. AgentGrade fetches your page the way an AI crawler does - without running JavaScript, like most of them - and checks whether your real content, headings, structured data, and metadata are present in the raw HTML. If your content only appears after JavaScript runs, many AI agents see almost nothing, and that’s one of the first things we flag.
SEO audits optimize for blue-link rankings. AgentGrade checks whether AI agents can crawl, parse, and cite you - including modern signals like llms.txt, markdown routes, structured data, and whether your content even exists without JavaScript. Optimizing for AI search overlaps with SEO, but isn’t the same thing.
llms.txt is an emerging standard: a plain-text file at yoursite.com/llms.txt that hands AI tools a clean, curated map of your most important pages. It’s optional and won’t hurt your SEO, but adopting it early puts you ahead as more agents start looking for it. AgentGrade checks whether you have one (and a markdown version of your page) and shows you how to add it.
If you want to be cited in AI answers, yes - blocking crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, or Google-Extended in your robots.txt makes you invisible to those tools. AgentGrade shows exactly which major AI crawlers your robots.txt currently allows or blocks, so you can decide on purpose instead of by accident.
Yes. The same checks run on every page, but the grade is weighted for the page type - a homepage, a blog post, a marketing landing page, or an API/app are judged differently. AgentGrade auto-detects the type (and you can change it with the Grade as picker), so a minimal homepage isn’t marked down for lacking a 5,000-word article.
We store the website URLs you submit for scanning (with a timestamp) so we can see how AgentGrade is used and improve it. That is all - we do not store the report itself or your IP address. See the privacy policy linked in the footer.