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.
77
sites audited
51
average AEO score (of 100)
57%
pass AI crawler access
Score distribution
How audited sites are spread across the 0-100 readiness range.
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10
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20
6
30
25
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50
11
60
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70
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80
2
90
Where sites fall short
Average pass rate per AEO signal, lowest first. The biggest gaps are the biggest opportunities.
Schema & Structured Data3%
E-E-A-T Signals4%
Conversational Language4%
Citation Worthiness23%
Content Depth35%
Content Structure48%
AI Crawler Access57%
Technical Readiness73%
Meta Tags74%
OG & Social Tags94%
Citation readiness by engine
Average weighted readiness score for each AI engine across all audits.
ChatGPT
46
Perplexity
49
Claude
45
Gemini
55
AEO score by platform
Average score grouped by the CMS or framework detected. Sample sizes vary.
PlatformSitesAvg score
Next.js3552
Unknown2248
WordPress653
Ghost546
Shopify458
Astro361
Webflow146
HubSpot153
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