CiteFuel Readiness & Sampled Visibility Score

CiteFuel's Readiness score is an internal measurement of checks that can support access, clarity, evidence hygiene, and technical eligibility. It does not estimate a universal probability of citation. The Readiness score aggregates signals across five categories — crawler access, optional llms.txt file hygiene, truthful schema markup, passage clarity & entity, and technical foundation — into a single 0-100 score with severity-tiered sub-scores. Your published score then blends that Readiness reading with a separately sampled Visibility layer (positive brand presence across the readings that completed), plus disclosed evidence gates.

Readiness and real visibility are different. A site can perform well in classic Google while a specific crawler is blocked or while sampled answer engines rarely mention the brand. Conversely, fixing an optional file or earning a higher internal Readiness score does not prove that visibility improved. Compare repeated prompt cohorts, search rankings, qualified traffic, and conversions alongside the score.

CiteFuel's audit runs 26 distinct checks drawn from publicly documented AI crawler behavior, normal search guidance, and CiteFuel's own editorial rubric — every check and weight is published at /methodology. The free audit returns your score and a severity-tiered gap list, plus an optional starter llms.txt and one suggested passage rewrite. Generated artifacts require factual review and do not force an engine to index, rank, recommend, or cite the page.

How to use

  1. Enter your domain above and complete the verification.
  2. CiteFuel crawls your robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap, and homepage — and compares responses to requests labeled with documented crawler user-agent strings.
  3. Your score appears in ~90 seconds with a breakdown by category.
  4. Each gap shows an internal severity label and a reviewable remediation suggestion.
  5. See current plans for the available reviewable artifact bundle and commercial terms.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a good GEO readiness score?

CiteFuel grades its own measured checklist on the bands published on the methodology page. A high score means the measured checks performed well; it is not an external engine score or a promise of ranking, recommendation, or citation.

Is this the same as an AEO score?

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and GEO overlap. CiteFuel inventories access, content, entity, and technical signals and separately samples observed presence. It cannot determine whether an external engine will cite a page.

How is CiteFuel's score different from HubSpot's AEO Grader?

HubSpot's grader evaluates brand perception at the domain level. CiteFuel audits at the page level, tests actual crawler access against your live robots.txt, and generates output files — not just a brand health assessment. Full comparison: CiteFuel vs HubSpot AEO Grader.