The free check covers the access side of AI search visibility: whether your website's settings keep AI search out. The full report measures how often AI answers to buyer questions mention you.
Same question, two engines
Web results
About 1,240,000 results
Your brand — the thing you do best
Google has ranked you first for years.
The tool everyone compares against
Simple boards for small teams
In Google results, yourbrand.com ranks first.
Why AI might miss you
Why ranking on Google and being named in AI answers are two different questions.
A search engine scores every page it can see and puts them in order. Being on the list is a matter of degree — page one, page three, somewhere.
An AI answer names a handful of businesses, sometimes with links to its sources. There is no page two: if you are not in that handful, that answer never mentions you.
Each AI engine picks its own sources, and your website's settings can let some in and keep others out. A site can rank first on Google and still go unnamed in AI answers.
Google ranks
ChatGPT cites
Ranking gets you on a list. Citation needs AI engines to be able to read you first.
Before content is even the question, there is a door: for some sites it was closed to AI engines years ago, without anyone noticing.
Which is good news: doors are cheaper to open than content is to write.
How it works
A Google ranking does not guarantee a place in AI answers. Website access, useful content and the sources an engine selects all play a part.
Your site
settings and content
AI engine
ChatGPT search · Perplexity · Google AI Mode
The answer
names the sources it trusts
See whether your website settings allow ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Google's search services, with search access kept separate from model training preferences.
See whether your homepage opens for us and how much text AI tools can read on it, with clear next steps for reviewing missing content.
In the full audit report, every problem comes with a plain-language fix, how much it matters and how well proven it is, so whoever fixes it knows what to do first.
What you learn
Understand your website findings, how buyers find you and what to improve next. The full audit report separates observed results from practical recommendations.
Which AI and search tools your website lets in or keeps out.
Quick-fix files or code tags sold as ways to get cited by AI. There is no reliable evidence they get you cited, so we don't sell them as a fix.
Discover
See which measured answers name your brand, with model knowledge and web-based answers shown separately.
Compare
See which saved competitors appear in answers to the same buyer questions.
Improve
Get specific next steps, supporting evidence and a clear way to check each improvement.
Optional Google Search Console connection
See weekly impressions and clicks for searches that include your brand name, alongside your measured AI mentions. Connect your own website with read-only access.
Example report
An illustrative report for a made-up domain, laid out exactly like your own report. Run yours at the top of the page.
This is the free check. The full audit report adds the fixes.
Illustrative example
Checked
In plain words
Your visitor rules restrict 2 of the checked search readers; review the affected findings below. The biggest problem: Your visitor rules restrict ChatGPT's search reader. This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Website readiness score
Access issues need attention
A checked setting or response may limit a search service; review the affected findings.
These findings cover website access and content. The full audit report separately measures whether AI answers name your brand.
Your visitor rules tell ChatGPT's search reader to stay out. This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Reported as: OAI-SearchBot blocked · This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your visitor rules restrict ChatGPT's search reader
This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Reported as: OAI-SearchBot blocked · This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your visitor rules restrict Perplexity's search reader
Perplexity leaves your pages out of its answers; a person's live request may still get through.
Reported as: PerplexityBot blocked · Left out of Perplexity's search index (a user's live fetch may still get through).
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your initial homepage has very little text
Limited initial text is a reason to review whether the homepage answers buyers' questions, not proof of a citation problem.
Reported as: Only ~61 words of server-rendered text · The initial homepage response contains fewer than 150 readable words. This content-review heuristic does not establish whether an answer engine can use or quote the page.
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
The full audit report includes every fix, ordered by the points it recovers, with the evidence line that triggered it.
Your rules keep out 6 of the 9 tools we checked.
Access
Your visitor rules restrict ChatGPT's search reader
This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Reported as: OAI-SearchBot blocked · This opts blocked pages out of ChatGPT search answers; navigational links and answers from model knowledge are separate.
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your visitor rules restrict Perplexity's search reader
Perplexity leaves your pages out of its answers; a person's live request may still get through.
Reported as: PerplexityBot blocked · Left out of Perplexity's search index (a user's live fetch may still get through).
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your visitor rules allow Google's search reader
This rule permits crawling; it does not confirm actual access, indexing or selection in Google answers.
Reported as: Googlebot allowed · Google Search + AI Overviews + AI Mode
Anthropic's training collector is allowed in
Your text may be used to train Claude models.
Reported as: ClaudeBot allowed · Anthropic model training only
Findability
Your page list includes reported update dates
Accurate dates can help Google decide when to visit a page again.
Reported as: Page-update dates are supplied · Change a page's date only when that page changes significantly, and leave dates on unchanged pages as they are.
Your page list was found
Search engines can use this list to discover the pages you want found.
Reported as: Sitemap found: 312 URLs · Parsed 1 sitemap(s), up to 5 children each.
The pages we checked from your page list all load
Responsive links give search engines a route to your public content.
Reported as: 8/8 sampled sitemap URLs respond OK
Homepage
Your initial homepage has very little text
Limited initial text is a reason to review whether the homepage answers buyers' questions, not proof of a citation problem.
Reported as: Only ~61 words of server-rendered text · The initial homepage response contains fewer than 150 readable words. This content-review heuristic does not establish whether an answer engine can use or quote the page.
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your homepage has no summary line
It is not a ranking factor, but without it engines fall back to whatever text they can find to describe you.
Reported as: Missing meta description · Not a ranking factor, but engines use it as fallback summary text.
Fix and evidence in the full audit report
Your homepage loads
A working homepage gives search services a page they can process.
Reported as: Homepage HTTP 200
Your homepage has a title
A descriptive title helps search services label the page; they may also use other visible text.
Reported as: Title present · Your Brand — project management for agencies
The checked Google listing and preview controls are clear
These settings leave Google able to use the page for listings and previews; other eligibility checks still apply.
Reported as: No snippet or index restrictions · No robots meta tag (defaults allow everything).
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FAQ
If an answer here ever stops being true, we change how we check first, then update this page.
Yes. A free account, no card and no sales call. Groptim checks your site and computes the report on the spot. The report is kept with your account so you can check again after you update your website.
Website access and content readiness. It is separate from Google search coverage and observed mentions in AI answers, which the full audit report shows on their own.
Because not all advice is equally proven. In the full audit report, every fix carries one of three labels. Documented guidance: the engine or search vendor documents it. Research-supported practice: large studies support it, but the engine has not confirmed it. Recommended next step: good practice without direct proof. The report lists the costliest problems first and shows each fix's label, so you can see how well proven it is before you act. The example report on the homepage shows them as Tier 1, 2 and 3.
No. Google says its AI features need no special files or structured data, and we found nothing in OpenAI's, Microsoft Bing's, Anthropic's or Perplexity's guidance for website owners saying their answers use llms.txt. Schema markup can help search engines understand a page (Microsoft Bing has said the same for its AI answers), so it is ordinary site hygiene. There is no reliable evidence that either one gets you cited, so we do not check for either one and do not sell either as a citation fix. If the evidence changes, the methodology changes with it.
Yes, in ChatGPT search. At OpenAI, the setting that opts you out of AI training is separate from the one ChatGPT search uses, so opting out of training does not opt you out of ChatGPT search. Answers ChatGPT gives from its trained knowledge, without searching, are a separate matter. When the free check can read your website's settings, it names any that tell ChatGPT's, Perplexity's or Google's search reader to stay off your homepage. It does not report training-only settings, so it cannot tell you whether you have opted out of training.
The free check shows website findings and their scoring impact. Buy a one-time pass to generate full audit reports with supporting evidence, guided fixes, measured visibility in AI answers and, where usable evidence exists, Google searches. Each full audit report or re-check uses one of your reports. Failed runs do not use one.
No. Both passes are one-time purchases, not subscriptions. Trial pass: 3 full audit reports for 24 hours. Starter pass: 20 full audit reports for 7 days. The time window starts when payment is confirmed, and unused reports expire when it ends.
Yes. Your completed paid reports and their PDF downloads stay in your account after the pass ends. You need an active pass with at least one full audit report left to generate another report or re-check.
Free account, no card. The free check does not measure whether AI answers mention you; the full audit report does that.