CrawlPod

AI visibility · GEO tooling

Is your site readable to the AI that answers your customers' questions?

Paste a URL below for a free, instant check of whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can actually read, parse, and cite your site — no signup required.

  • 30 checks, published weights
  • 23 AI crawlers tracked
  • No account, no card

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CrawlPod scores how AI answer engines see your site, names the checks you fail, and ships the fixes as a WordPress plugin, two open-source packages, a Chrome extension, and a free web scanner.

Real, checkable, not marketing copy

Every claim on this page links to something you can verify yourself — no invented review counts, no fabricated customer logos.

npm & PyPI

MIT-licensed, source on GitHub.

WordPress.org

Live plugin listing, free tier, no account required to install.

Crawler registry

23 known AI crawlers across 13 vendors, versioned in the public registry.

Dogfooding

This site's own live score is public at /built-with — run against itself, same engine.

Semrush audited this site with JavaScript rendering disabled — the same constraint most AI crawlers operate under — and measured 100% crawlability.

A CrawlPod study scanned 50 homepages on August 10, 2026 (46 usable results): only 20 of 46 sites (43.5%) served /llms.txt, and every news site scanned (9/9) blocked at least one major AI crawler. Read the full study.

The problem, shown not told

Many AI crawlers don't run JavaScript. A page that looks complete in a browser can be almost empty to one of them — here's the same page from both sides.

What a non-rendering AI crawler receives

client-rendered page, no JS engine
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <body>
    <div id="root"></div>
    <script src="/static/js/bundle.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

What it needs to look like instead

server-rendered, direct-answer content
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <body>
    <main>
      <h1>AI Visibility Score: What It Means…</h1>
      <p>An AI visibility score measures whether
      answer engines can read, parse, and cite
      your site — out of 100, across six
      weighted categories…</p>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

What the scan checks

Most competitors don't publish how their score is calculated. The ai-visibility AI Readiness Engine weights six categories: crawlability (20%), structure (20%), entity signals (20%), citation readiness (15%), content (15%), and authority (10%) — 30 named checks in total.

Traditional SEO helps a page rank in a list of results; GEO (generative engine optimization) helps an AI engine read, understand, and cite a page inside a generated answer. They share a technical foundation — crawlability, clean HTML, structured data — but neither one guarantees the other.

Read the published scoring methodology, crawler registry and developer documentation. Primary references: OpenAI crawler docs, Anthropic crawler docs, the llms.txt spec, and schema.org.

Pick where your site lives

Every option below runs the same audit engine — the difference is where it runs and what it can fix for you.

Prefer a terminal? npx ai-visibility audit yoursite.com runs the same engine with no install — see the CLI reference. Compare all six products.

See exactly where your site stands

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Frequently asked questions

What is CrawlPod?

CrawlPod is a set of tools that check and fix how AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — read and cite websites. It's built around the ai-visibility package, available for Node.js on npm and Python on PyPI, with a WordPress plugin live on WordPress.org and a Shopify app in development.

What's the difference between GEO and SEO?

SEO optimizes for ranking in a list of links. GEO (generative engine optimization) optimizes for being read, understood, and cited directly inside an AI-generated answer, where there's no list of blue links at all. The technical foundation overlaps — crawlability, structured data, clean HTML — but the target output is different.

Do I need to install anything to get a scan?

No. The free scanner above checks a live URL you give it — robots.txt rules, structured data, server-rendered content, and more — with no install and no signup required to see the result.

Are the npm and Python packages free?

Yes, both. ai-visibility is MIT-licensed and free to use on npm and PyPI, with source on GitHub for each.

Is the WordPress plugin really free?

The free tier is free permanently, no trial or credit card — crawler access control, llms.txt generation, and a 7-check visibility score. Paid Pro, Business, and Ultra tiers add the full 9-check audit, brand protection, and advanced tooling, each with a 14-day free trial.

Does CrawlPod guarantee my site will be cited by ChatGPT or other AI engines?

No tool can guarantee a citation — AI engines choose what to cite based on factors outside any single site's control. CrawlPod addresses the things that are within your control: whether AI crawlers can access your site, whether your content is structured so it can be parsed and quoted, and whether your pages carry the metadata that helps an engine understand what they're about.