The State of AEO
How ready is the web to be cited by AI? These benchmarks come from every audit run on CiteRank, aggregated anonymously. No individual site is identified.
131
sites audited
57
average AEO score (of 100)
64%
pass AI crawler access
Score distribution
How audited sites are spread across the 0-100 readiness range.
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0
0
10
5
20
7
30
27
40
37
50
31
60
18
70
4
80
2
90
Where sites fall short
Average pass rate per AEO signal, lowest first. The biggest gaps are the biggest opportunities.
E-E-A-T Signals4%
Schema & Structured Data5%
Conversational Language16%
Citation Worthiness18%
Content Depth56%
AI Crawler Access64%
Content Structure66%
Meta Tags79%
Technical Readiness84%
OG & Social Tags94%
Citation readiness by engine
Average weighted readiness score for each AI engine across all audits.
ChatGPT
53
Perplexity
54
Claude
51
Gemini
60
AEO score by platform
Average score grouped by the CMS or framework detected. Sample sizes vary.
PlatformSitesAvg score
Next.js6761
Unknown4154
WordPress850
Ghost546
Shopify555
Astro361
HubSpot153
Webflow146
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