Free AI Visibility Readiness Score

How this tool computes its result

A fixed 8-item self-audit checklist covering AI-visibility fundamentals (public fact sheet, Organization schema, FAQ schema, AI crawler access in robots.txt, sitemap freshness, cited sources, consistent brand naming, answer-first content structure). Each item is worth an equal 1/8 of the score; readinessScore = round(checkedCount / 8 × 100). Labels are banded at ≥80% "AI-ready," ≥50% "On track," else "Needs focus." The "Next best steps" panel simply lists the first three unchecked items in the array's fixed declaration order — it does not rank them by likely impact.

Worked example

Checking exactly 3 of the 8 items — the fact sheet, Organization schema, and sitemap items — gives checkedCount = 3, so readinessScore = round(3/8 × 100) = 38%, which falls under the "Needs focus" band (below 50). "Next best steps" then shows the first three still-unchecked items in their original order: FAQ schema, robots.txt crawler access, and cited sources — even though "consistent brand naming" and "answer-first summaries" are also unchecked, they don't appear because the list is capped to the first three by array position, not by importance.

When not to use this tool

Every item is self-reported via a checkbox — the tool never crawls your site to confirm the schema, sitemap, or robots.txt rules actually exist, so it's a self-audit prompt to identify gaps to go verify, not a substitute for pulling your real robots.txt, sitemap, or structured-data output.

Common mistakes

• - Treating all 8 items as equally important because they're equally weighted — blocking AI crawlers entirely in robots.txt is a more severe issue in practice than missing FAQ schema, but both count as exactly one of eight points here.
• - Assuming "Next best steps" is a prioritized action list — it's just the first three unchecked items in the checklist's fixed order, so lower items on the list never surface as a suggestion until the earlier ones are checked off.
• - Expecting progress to persist between visits — there is no localStorage save here (unlike the Content Calendar tool), so refreshing the page resets every checkbox.

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