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CiteReady checks in ~10 seconds whether AI assistants can actually crawl and cite your site.
Grounded in available product and source data
Ranking first in Google search results doesn't mean an AI assistant can actually read a page — that's the specific gap CiteReady, a free AI search readiness audit, is built to measure, checking whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews can crawl and cite a site at all.
Four weighted categories make up the score: AI Crawler Access (30%) checks whether bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot are actually allowed in through robots.txt, since a blocked bot means total invisibility regardless of content quality. Content Citability (30%) — the other heaviest category — looks at heading structure, paragraph length, and Q&A formatting, the traits that decide whether a passage is short and clear enough for an assistant to quote directly. Structured Data (20%) and Technical Foundation (20%) round it out, covering JSON-LD schema, FAQ/HowTo markup, HTTPS, canonical tags, and the emerging llms.txt standard for machine-readable AI discovery.
What makes the audit worth trusting for tracking progress is what it deliberately avoids: no language model and no randomness are involved in scoring, so the same page returns the same result every time, and a fix can be verified by simply re-running the check. Every individual signal comes back as pass, warn, or fail with a specific recommendation attached, rolled into one 0-100 score rather than four disconnected numbers to interpret separately.
Free covers 3 audits a day with the full report and all checks, no signup required. Pro adds automatic weekly monitoring with score history across up to 5 tracked sites, multi-page audits covering up to 10 pages per sitemap run, and access to CiteReady's underlying API bundled with 20+ other SpryTools APIs under one key at 10,000 calls a month. On data handling, the site states audits run on demand and results return straight to the browser — nothing gets stored, and Pro accounts keep only an email and a hashed API key for billing.
Generative Engine Optimization — the site frames it as the AI-era counterpart to SEO, where the goal shifts from ranking first in a list of links to being the specific source an AI assistant quotes when answering a question.
Yes — traditional search ranking and AI citability are measured by different signals entirely, so a page can rank first on Google while being effectively unreadable to an AI crawler that's blocked or can't parse its structure.
Only on Pro — since nothing from an audit persists server-side by default, a Free user has to manually re-run and save each report to compare over time, whereas Pro's weekly monitoring builds that score history automatically.
No — scoring is stated to be fully deterministic with no language model or randomness involved, so an unchanged page returns the same result every time, which is what makes it reliable for confirming a fix actually worked.
Ongoing visibility versus a single point-in-time check — Free covers single-page, on-demand audits, while Pro adds automatic weekly re-audits with score history across up to 5 sites, catching a regression before it quietly costs AI-driven traffic.
