AI Citability Scorer

What This Scores

The unit is one URL. The scorer fetches the page and grades it from 0 to 100 in four equally weighted areas. Content Structure checks heading hierarchy, FAQ sections, lists and tables, a summary section and a table of contents. Answer Quality looks for a direct answer early on, specific facts, question and answer format, freshness signals and concise passages. Authority Signals checks for an author byline, links to outside sources, HTTPS, schema markup and about, contact and privacy pages. Entity Coverage looks at whether key terms are defined and related to each other, and whether terminology stays consistent.

Add an optional target keyword and it also scores the sources cited in Google's AI Overview for that keyword, tells you whether your page is one of them, and compares your score with their average and with the top cited source.

This is not a measure of writing quality and it is not a ranking prediction. It measures extractability, which is a narrower and more mechanical thing.

Reading the Output

CITABILITY                    61 / 100
Good Citability

CONTENT STRUCTURE             74
  heading hierarchy             pass
  table of contents             missing

ANSWER QUALITY                58
  direct answer in first 100 words  pass
  concise, citable passages     partial

AUTHORITY SIGNALS             41
  author byline present         missing
  credible sources cited        missing

ENTITY COVERAGE               70
  consistent terminology        pass

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR CITABILITY
  add an author byline, cite outside sources

Authority Signals scoring low with everything else acceptable is a common shape, and it is the cheapest to fix. A missing author byline and no outside sources are an afternoon of work, not a rewrite.

The concise, citable passages check is the one people argue with. A sentence beginning "this means it will" is perfectly clear in context and useless out of it, because a model quoting it has no way to carry the antecedent along. Writing sentences that survive being lifted is a habit, and it costs nothing once you have it.

What This Does Not Tell You

A high score does not mean you will be cited. Citation depends on whether the engine finds your page at all, whether it trusts the domain, and whether your page happens to answer the prompt someone typed. Extractability is necessary and nowhere near sufficient.

Whether your brand actually appears in answers is a different question with a different tool: the AI Visibility Checker tests that directly.

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