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.
102
sites audited
55
average AEO score (of 100)
62%
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
6
30
26
40
31
50
17
60
12
70
3
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 Signals5%
Schema & Structured Data6%
Conversational Language11%
Citation Worthiness22%
Content Depth48%
Content Structure58%
AI Crawler Access62%
Meta Tags76%
Technical Readiness79%
OG & Social Tags93%
Citation readiness by engine
Average weighted readiness score for each AI engine across all audits.
ChatGPT
51
Perplexity
53
Claude
49
Gemini
59
AEO score by platform
Average score grouped by the CMS or framework detected. Sample sizes vary.
PlatformSitesAvg score
Next.js5059
Unknown3151
WordPress653
Shopify555
Ghost546
Astro361
HubSpot153
Webflow146
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