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Answer-readiness checker: is your page easy for AI to quote?
Scores a page out of 100 on the things that make an answer engine able to quote it correctly, with the fixes worth most points first.
Updated 30 October 2026
What it checks
- Search engines may index it (10 points)
- A clear title and description (8 points)
- One main heading (5 points)
- Headings phrased as the questions people ask (10 points)
- Each heading answered in its first sentence (12 points)
- Structured data that says what the page is (8 points)
- A visible or marked-up date (8 points)
- A named author or organisation (8 points)
- Lists or tables an assistant can lift (6 points)
- Links to sources for its claims (7 points)
- Specific figures, not generalities (6 points)
- Enough text to answer properly (6 points)
- The page language is declared (3 points)
- Reads as written by a person (3 points)
Use it from code or an AI agent
The same check is a free JSON API and an MCP tool. No key, no sign-up.
curl "https://aeolookup.com/api/aeo/answer-readiness?url=example.co.uk"MCP: add https://aeolookup.com/mcp as a remote server and call score_answer_readiness. API and MCP documentation.
Questions people ask
How is the score worked out?
Fourteen checks, each worth the points listed on this page, 100 in all. The weights are our editorial judgement, drawn from what AI search studies agree on: clear questions and direct answers, named authors, dates, sources, specific figures and fresh pages. They are not a published standard, which is why every check shows what it found.
What counts as a direct answer?
A first sentence under a question heading that answers it in 4 to 35 words, before any explanation. "A boiler service costs £80 to £120 in most of the UK" answers; "There are many factors to consider" does not. Assistants tend to lift that first sentence.
Will a high score get my page into AI Overviews or ChatGPT?
No score can promise that. Google says AI Overviews rank pages with its normal signals, and every assistant weighs authority and links we cannot see. A high score means the page is easy to quote correctly once it is found.
Why does it flag certain stock words and phrases?
Studies of machine-written text find a short list of words and stock phrases used far more often than people use them; the check names any it finds. Readers and editors have learned to spot them, and plain writing is easier for anyone, human or model, to quote accurately.