Understand your free check score and top three fixes

Your score and grade

Your result opens with one number: how easy your website is for AI assistants to read and quote, out of 100.

1. Look at the score at the top of your result, with your grade under it.

   

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2. Read the sentence under the heading. It sums up what the score means for your site, and the line below it says how many pages were read and when.

The grades are: A for 80 or more, easy for AI to read and quote; B for 65 to 79, mostly readable with a few gaps; C for 45 to 64, needs work; and D for below 45, hard for AI to read.

The six scoring areas

Score by area splits the total into six parts. Each area is scored out of 100, and each counts toward the total by a fixed share of the 100 points.

Crawler access, 15 points: whether AI crawlers can fetch and read your pages. It checks the rules in your robots.txt file, whether your firewall turns crawlers away, and two hidden page settings: one that tells search engines to skip a page, and a tag that names the main copy of a page.

Content depth, 15 points: whether pages have enough readable text to be quoted. Pages with fewer than 1,000 words are flagged.

Page structure, 20 points: one clear main heading, several section headings, enough paragraphs, and key points written as lists. The hint on the page also names structured data, but structured data is scored under Trust signals.

Answer-ready content, 25 points: plain definitions, specific numbers, comparisons, step-by-step instructions and an FAQ that an assistant can lift into an answer.

Trust signals, 15 points: a visible date, an author, your business details, links to outside sources and structured data.

Match to buyer questions, 10 points: whether your page titles and headings use the words customers use when they ask.

Which AI crawlers can reach your site

An AI crawler is the robot an AI company sends to read websites. If yours turns it away, the assistant behind it has nothing of yours to quote.

1. Read the box headed AI crawlers:. It says how many of the 17 crawlers can get in, for example AI crawlers: 17 of 17 allowed.

2. Scroll back to the top of the page. The list beside the address box (below it on a phone) is now headed Crawler access on and your website. An allowed crawler has a tick. A blocked one is red with a cross.

   

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A blocked crawler shows why: Blocked by your robots.txt file means a rule in your site’s robots.txt file turns it away, and Blocked by your firewall or CDN means your hosting or security service refuses it. Whoever looks after your website can change either one.

The 17 crawlers, by company: OpenAI (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Google (Googlebot, Google-Extended), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User), Anthropic (ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User), Microsoft (Bingbot), Apple (Applebot-Extended), Amazon (Amazonbot), Meta (meta-externalagent), DuckDuckGo (DuckAssistBot), Common Crawl (CCBot) and ByteDance (Bytespider). The check reads your robots.txt for all 17 and also visits your homepage as most of them.

Your top 3 fixes

1. Scroll to Top 3 fixes. They are ranked by impact, so start with the first.

   

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2. Check the Effort: tag beside each fix: Half a day or less, 1 to 3 days or About a week.

Each fix says what to change and why it matters. The emailed report adds how to make each fix. If nothing needs fixing, you see “We didn’t find anything urgent to fix” and your website.

What the score cannot tell you

The score measures how easily AI assistants can read and quote your website. It does not tell you whether ChatGPT or any other assistant recommends you. The page says so too: scores do not guarantee how any AI service ranks or recommends you.

To see what assistants actually say, you need tracking, which comes with a plan. What LegitGeo does explains tracking and Proof.

The free check reads up to 10 pages. Diagnosis, in your account, reads up to 25 and keeps your full fix list. See Check how ready your website is for AI assistants.