Comprehensive website analysis for AI answer engines. Optimize for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews with 8-category scoring and actionable recommendations.
Digital marketing professionals, SEO agencies, and in-house marketing teams who need comprehensive website analysis that goes beyond traditional Google rankings. As AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude reshape how people find information, your website must be optimized not just for traditional search engines but for AI systems that extract, synthesize, and cite content.
Our analysis identifies exactly where your site falls short on AI discoverability—missing structured data, poor entity trust signals, content that AI systems can't extract—and provides prioritized fixes to close those gaps before your competitors do.
Comprehensive analysis across eligibility hygiene (20%), extractability (15%), entity trust (15%), structured data (15%), local reviews (10%), earned proof (10%), AI visibility (10%), and governance (5%). Get a complete picture of your website's AI readiness with weighted scores that reflect real-world impact on AI citation eligibility.
Each category is scored 0-100. We aggregate these into an overall grade (A+ to F) and compare your score against industry medians (typically 45-65).
Robots.txt-aware crawling with configurable rate limiting and depth control. We analyze up to 50 pages of your site structure, content quality, and technical implementation—respecting your server resources and crawl budget.
Our crawler follows the same patterns as AI systems: checking for structured data, extractable content, entity signals, and technical hygiene.
Leverage Google PageSpeed Insights for Core Web Vitals, Google Search Console for indexing status, Bing Webmaster Tools for alternate search engine perspective, and AI web search APIs for competitive intelligence and visibility testing.
Optional integrations—scans work without them, but API data enriches competitive analysis and provides real-world performance metrics.
Compare your scores against industry benchmarks and competitor websites. Identify strengths to leverage in marketing messaging and gaps to close in your optimization roadmap.
See where you rank in the public leaderboard. Track category-by-category performance to understand which optimization areas give you a competitive edge.
Actionable fix lists prioritized by impact and effort. Know exactly what to address first—add missing schema markup, improve entity trust signals, fix extractability issues—to improve your AI discoverability and search rankings.
Recommendations are specific and technical: "Add Organization schema to homepage," "Fix broken canonical tags on 12 pages," "Add FAQ schema to product pages."
Track your optimization progress over time. Submit before-and-after scan results to join the public leaderboard and showcase your SEO improvements to clients or stakeholders.
Leaderboard shows both top absolute scores and most improved sites. Great for agencies demonstrating value to clients.
Get a free basic assessment with scores across all 8 categories. Upgrade to a $199 one-time premium PDF report for deep analysis, competitive insights, and detailed recommendations (5-10 pages).
AI-powered SEO analysis goes beyond traditional search engine optimization to evaluate how well your website performs in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. Our 8-category scoring system measures eligibility and hygiene (20%), content extractability (15%), entity trust signals (15%), structured data quality (15%), local signals and reviews (10%), earned proof like backlinks (10%), AI visibility factors (10%), and governance and compliance (5%). Traditional SEO tools focus on keyword rankings and backlinks. Our platform evaluates whether AI systems can extract, understand, and cite your content when answering user questions. This includes analyzing schema markup, content structure, brand entity signals, and the semantic clarity of your messaging. The free scan provides instant scores and grades. The $199 premium report includes 5-10 pages of detailed recommendations with implementation priorities and expected impact on AI citation rates.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), AIO (AI Optimization), and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) refer to optimizing your website for AI-powered search and answer systems rather than traditional search engines. While SEO focuses on ranking in Google's blue links, AEO/AIO/GEO focus on getting your content cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, and other AI answer engines. These systems prioritize content that is easily extractable, semantically clear, factually verifiable, and backed by entity trust signals. Structured data (schema.org markup) helps AI systems understand your content context. Clean HTML hierarchy and semantic markup improve extractability. Entity signals like consistent NAP (name, address, phone) information, social profiles, and authoritative backlinks establish trust. Content should answer questions directly with clear supporting evidence. Our platform analyzes all these factors across 8 categories and provides specific recommendations for improvement. Most websites score between 45-65 out of 100, indicating significant opportunity for optimization. AI answer engines currently drive 20-30% of search traffic and growing rapidly. Early optimization creates competitive advantage before your competitors catch up.
The free SEO/AEO/AIO/GEO scan analyzes your website and generates an instant assessment report with scores across 8 categories. You receive an overall grade (A+, A, B, C, D, or F) and numerical scores for each category: Eligibility & Hygiene, Extractability, Entity Trust, Structured Data, Local Signals & Reviews, Earned Proof, AI Visibility, and Governance & Compliance. The report identifies major issues and provides a high-level summary of opportunities. The free scan is available to everyone—no subscription required. You can run up to 3 scans per day. Results appear on the public leaderboard (with your permission) where you can compare your scores against other websites in your industry. The scan crawls up to 50 pages from your site, checks robots.txt compliance, analyzes HTML structure, validates structured data, queries external APIs for performance and indexing status, and tests content extractability using LLM parsing techniques. For deeper analysis, the premium report ($199 one-time purchase) provides 5-10 pages of detailed recommendations with specific implementation steps, code examples, prioritization by impact, and before/after improvement projections. Premium reports are generated using Claude Sonnet 4.5 and delivered as professionally formatted PDFs within 24 hours.
Semrush and similar traditional SEO tools (Ahrefs, Moz) focus on keyword rankings, backlink profiles, and technical SEO audits for Google's traditional search results. Next Evolution focuses specifically on AI answer engine optimization—measuring whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can extract, understand, and cite your content. Traditional SEO tools don't measure content extractability, entity trust signals, or structured data effectiveness for AI systems. Our 8-category scoring system evaluates factors that AI answer engines prioritize: semantic clarity, schema markup quality, entity disambiguation, and content structure. You can use both tools together: Semrush for traditional Google SEO and Next Evolution for AI optimization. However, if you're prioritizing AI visibility (which drives 20-30% of search traffic and growing), our platform provides metrics traditional tools don't measure.
Most websites score between 45-65 out of 100 on our AEO assessment, which corresponds to a grade of C or D. Scores above 70 (grade B) indicate solid AI optimization with room for improvement. Scores above 85 (grade A) are rare and indicate exceptional AI readiness across all 8 categories. If you score below 45 (grade F), your website likely has significant issues that prevent AI systems from extracting and citing your content—missing structured data, poor entity trust signals, extractability problems, or technical hygiene issues. The good news is that most optimization opportunities are fixable with targeted improvements: adding schema markup, improving content structure, establishing entity trust signals, and addressing technical SEO issues.
Timeline depends on your starting score and implementation capacity. Quick wins (adding schema markup, fixing broken canonicals, improving meta descriptions) can be implemented in 1-2 weeks and show measurable score improvements immediately upon re-scan. Entity trust signals (building consistent NAP citations, establishing social profiles, earning quality backlinks) take 4-8 weeks to establish. Content extractability improvements (restructuring pages with better headings, adding FAQ sections, improving semantic clarity) can be implemented in 2-4 weeks. Most businesses see a 10-15 point score improvement within 30-60 days by tackling high-priority recommendations from the premium report. Sustained optimization over 3-6 months can improve scores by 20-35 points, moving sites from grade D to B or C to A.
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) scores reflect your local signals, earned proof, and governance factors. Low GEO scores typically result from: missing or inconsistent NAP (name, address, phone) information across directories and your website, lack of Google Business Profile or other local listings, few or low-quality reviews on Google, Yelp, or industry platforms, weak backlink profile with few authoritative domains linking to your site, missing privacy policy or terms of service, lack of clear contact information, or absence of security indicators like HTTPS and security.txt. GEO is especially important for local businesses, service providers, and any business where trust and local visibility matter. Improving GEO requires a mix of on-site changes (adding clear contact info, policies, security features) and off-site reputation building (review acquisition, local citations, link building).
ChatGPT and similar AI systems cite content they can extract, verify, and trust. To improve citation eligibility: ensure your content has clear semantic structure with proper headings (H1, H2, H3) and short paragraphs, add schema.org markup (Organization, FAQPage, Article, Product) so AI systems understand context, establish entity trust signals with consistent NAP information, social profiles, and authoritative backlinks, make content directly answer common questions in your domain with clear supporting evidence, ensure technical hygiene (HTTPS, fast load times, mobile-friendly, no broken links), and build domain authority through quality backlinks from reputable sources. AI systems prefer content that is factual, well-sourced, clearly structured, and backed by signals of credibility and expertise. Our platform's 8-category scoring identifies exactly which factors are limiting your AI citation eligibility.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) focuses on optimizing for AI systems that answer questions—ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Bing Chat. AEO prioritizes content extractability, semantic clarity, and structured data so AI systems can parse and cite your content. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is a subset that emphasizes trust signals and local factors—reviews, backlinks, local citations, governance. In practice, the terms overlap significantly. Our platform uses a combined approach: we measure both extractability factors (can AI systems parse your content?) and trust factors (will AI systems trust and cite your content?). The 8-category scoring covers the full spectrum: eligibility hygiene, extractability, entity trust, structured data (AEO-focused), local reviews, earned proof, governance (GEO-focused), and AI visibility (combined AEO/GEO).
Structured data (schema.org markup) provides explicit context to AI systems about your content type, organization details, products, FAQs, and relationships. Websites with comprehensive schema markup are significantly more likely to be cited by AI answer engines because the markup reduces ambiguity—AI systems don't have to guess what your content means. For example, FAQPage schema tells AI systems 'this is a question and this is the authoritative answer,' making it easy to extract for citation. Organization schema establishes your business identity, helping AI systems disambiguate your company from others with similar names. Product schema provides pricing, availability, and specifications in a machine-readable format. Our analysis shows that websites with proper schema markup in the structured data category (scoring 75+) are cited 2-3x more often by AI systems than sites with minimal or broken schema (scoring below 40). Adding structured data is one of the highest-ROI optimizations you can make for AI visibility.
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