AEO Analyzer

AI Engine Optimization Intelligence

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Getting Started

5 min read

What is AEO?

AI Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of optimizing your website so that AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI features can better understand, index, and cite your content.

Why it matters: As more users get answers from AI assistants instead of traditional search, having your content cited by AI becomes crucial for visibility and traffic.

AEO vs SEO

While SEO focuses on ranking in traditional search results, AEO focuses on:

  • Being cited - Getting mentioned in AI-generated responses
  • Being understood - Helping AI extract accurate information
  • Being trusted - Signaling credibility and expertise to AI systems
  • Being accessible - Allowing AI crawlers to access your content

How Analysis Works

AEO Analyzer evaluates your website across 93 individual checks grouped into 6 dimensions. Here's what happens when you run an analysis:

1. Content Crawling

We fetch your page using Firecrawl, extracting both raw HTML and cleaned content for analysis. This simulates how AI crawlers see your site.

2. Technical Analysis

We check robots.txt permissions, sitemaps, SSL, Core Web Vitals, and other infrastructure elements that affect AI crawlability.

3. Structure Analysis

We evaluate your HTML structure, Schema.org markup, heading hierarchy, and semantic HTML usage that helps AI understand your content.

4. AI Content Analysis

Using GPT-5.2, we evaluate E-E-A-T signals, content quality, semantic richness, and citation potential of your content.

5. Score Calculation

Results from all 93 checks are weighted by dimension and combined into your overall AEO score and grade.

Analysis Types

Single Page Scan
1 Credit
Analyze one specific URL in depth
Smart Scan (Multi-Page)
1 Credit/Page
Discover and analyze multiple pages across your site

Single Page Scan

Best for analyzing specific pages like your homepage, key landing pages, or blog posts.

  1. Go to Scan from the navigation
  2. Enter the full URL (including https://)
  3. Click Analyze
  4. Wait for the analysis to complete (~30-60 seconds)
  5. View your detailed report

Smart Scan (Multi-Page)

Best for getting a complete picture of your site's AEO health across multiple pages.

  1. Go to Smart Scan from the navigation
  2. Enter your domain
  3. We'll discover pages via your sitemap
  4. Select which pages to analyze
  5. View results in your Site Dashboard

Credit System

Credits are used to run analyses. Each page analysis costs 1 credit.

Free Tier
5 Credits
Try AEO Analyzer with 5 free page analyses
Pro Plan
100 Credits/mo
Monthly credits for regular monitoring
Enterprise
Custom
Volume pricing for large sites
Credit tip: Use single page scans to test fixes on specific pages, then run a full Smart Scan to verify site-wide improvements.
Understanding Reports