Why isn't AI citing your content?

The blind spot

You published a thorough guide. It ranks page one, it reads well, your team is proud of it. Then a buyer asks ChatGPT for the best option and it cites a thinner competitor instead — because that page front-loads its stats and yours buries them, or because Google-Extended is blocked in a robots.txt line nobody remembers adding. There's no error to catch. You just aren't in the answer.

Two things decide it: whether a crawler can read the page — 69% of AI crawlers never run your JavaScript, so a client-side-only page can be blank before a word is read — and whether your content gives an engine more to cite than the pages it already trusts. Content Analyzer checks both: it fetches your URL the way each engine does, checks live which ones already cite it, and benchmarks every signal against the pages they cite instead.

From URL to punch list in minutes

1. 01 · Paste

   Any URL + your keyword

   Drop in your page, a competitor's, a PDP or a blog post, plus the keyword you want to be cited for. It handles static HTML, server-rendered, and client-rendered React.

2. 02 · Analyze

   Two scores, checked live

   It fetches the page as each AI bot, diffs the JS vs no-JS render, and checks live which of six AI engines cite it. Then it pulls the pages those engines do cite and benchmarks yours against them, signal by signal.

3. 03 · Fix

   A prioritized punch list

   You get a Citability and an AI Readability grade, the HIGH-impact actions with the gap quantified, and a one-click content brief to rewrite against. Hit Rerun to watch the grade move.

• 01What does the Citability Score actually measure?

  It's a grade from A to F (backed by a 0–100 score) for how likely an AI engine is to cite the page. It rolls up the on-page signals AI engines reward — answer capsules, question headings, structured lists, sourced statistics, data tables, freshness — and benchmarks each one against the pages those engines actually cite for your keyword. Alongside it, a separate AI Readability grade covers whether a crawler can even reach and render the page. Two scores, because being citable and being readable are two different problems.
• 02Will fixing these signals actually get me cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity?

  There's no guarantee — AI citation is probabilistic. But the benchmark isn't a generic ideal: it's measured against the pages those engines are already citing for your exact keyword, so closing the gaps moves you toward what's demonstrably winning. And because Content Analyzer checks each engine live, you can ship a fix, hit Rerun, and watch whether a 'not cited' flips to 'cited' — instead of guessing.
• 03How is this different from a Lighthouse or SEO audit?

  Lighthouse grades performance and technical SEO for Google and human visitors. Content Analyzer grades AI citability — answer engine optimization (AEO): it fetches your page as the AI bots, diffs the JS vs no-JS render the way a non-JS crawler sees it, and benchmarks your content signals against the pages AI cites. Different question, different output — a green Lighthouse score tells you nothing about whether ChatGPT can read or will cite you.
• 04What's the difference between Content Analyzer and GEO Scan?

  GEO Scan asks whether AI engines currently cite your brand for a keyword — a live visibility check across a prompt set. Content Analyzer zooms into a single URL to explain why that page is or isn't citable and hand you the fix. Use Scan to measure where you stand, Analyzer to fix the page that's falling short.
• 05Does it check whether AI bots can actually crawl my page?

  Yes — and that's a separate check from the per-engine citation result. The AI Readability module is an AI crawler checker and a robots-txt-for-AI audit built into every page grade: it probes your page against the major AI bot user agents — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and CCBot — and reports which are blocked and where the block lives: robots.txt, an X-Robots-Tag header, an llms.txt directive, or a CDN firewall rule. It also diffs the JS and no-JS render, because most AI crawlers don't execute JavaScript.
• 06Does it need access to my analytics or account data?

  No. Content Analyzer only fetches publicly accessible URLs — the same way an AI crawler would. It never needs your analytics, your CMS, or your account data to grade a page.
• 07Can I export the analysis as a report?

  Yes. Every analysis downloads as a PDF with the full grade, the per-engine cited / not-cited result, the signal benchmark, the AI-readability matrix and the prioritized fixes. Clean enough to attach to a proposal, detailed enough to debug.
• 08What does Content Analyzer cost?

  Content Analyzer is included from the Starter plan ($49/mo) up. A free account covers the AI visibility tracker and Agent Readiness so you can start without a card — see the pricing page for current tiers.