Find out if AI can read your site
A crawler that cannot read a page cannot use it. Citanto checks the technical and content prerequisites that affect machine readability before you invest in content.
What the audit checks
Citanto gives your site an AI-readiness score across clear categories: access for AI search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bingbot), indexing directives, whether your content is visible without JavaScript, structured data, entity signals and technical hygiene. Blocking training crawlers such as GPTBot is a separate choice and never lowers the score. These are prerequisites for an AI system to read and use your pages; they do not guarantee that it will.
Finds the silent blockers
A site can look fine to a person and still be hard for crawlers to read or use: a page that renders only with JavaScript, a robots.txt that blocks AI crawlers, a homepage marked noindex. The audit lists these blockers so you can fix them before investing in content.
An AI-readiness score you can act on
You get an AI-readiness score from 0 to 100, a per-category breakdown and the findings behind it, ordered by severity. Technical blockers such as blocked AI search crawlers, content visible only with JavaScript or a noindex homepage cap the score until they are fixed. The score covers prerequisites on your site, not your presence in AI answers, which Citanto measures separately in the paid plans.
How it works
Drop your URL
No setup, no credit card. The free AI-readiness audit starts from your homepage, robots.txt and sitemap.
We inspect the signals
Crawler access, JS dependency, structured data, entity, content and technical checks on your homepage and up to 15 pages listed in your sitemap.
You get a scored report
An AI-readiness score, a per-category breakdown and the findings to fix, ordered by severity.
You fix and re-check
Fix the blockers, then run the audit again to check the prerequisites.
Check your site's AI readiness. Free.
Citanto reads your homepage, robots.txt, sitemap and up to 15 pages listed in your sitemap, then checks crawler access, structured data and content signals. See the observed gaps and what to fix first.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI-readiness audit?
An AI-readiness audit checks whether AI crawlers can access and understand your site: crawler access in robots.txt, indexing directives, content visible without JavaScript, structured data, entity signals and more. Citanto scores these by category so you know which technical prerequisites to fix first. A high score does not guarantee citations.
Is the AI-readiness score a visibility score?
No. It checks technical and content prerequisites on your website. Mentions and citations in AI answers are measured separately, in the paid plans.
Why does AI-readiness matter before content?
Crawler access and readable HTML are prerequisites: a page a crawler cannot fetch or read cannot be used in an answer. The audit surfaces blocked crawlers, JavaScript-only pages and a homepage marked noindex before you invest in more content.
Is the audit free?
Yes. The AI-readiness audit is free and needs no credit card. It reads your homepage, robots.txt, sitemap and up to 15 pages listed in your sitemap, then returns an AI-readiness score by category with the observed findings.