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ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews quote pages they can lift a clean answer from. This checker scores a page on nine structural signals and tells you what to fix first.
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Answer engines quote pages that state the answer first, in short sentences, under headings that match the question. The checker measures that structure with nine rules over the page's HTML — no AI model, so the same page always gets the same score.
Supply chain software buyers now start shortlists in ChatGPT and Perplexity. If a vendor page buries its pricing model, integrations or deployment time in marketing copy, the engine cites an analyst or a competitor instead.
| Check | Weight | What scores well |
|---|---|---|
| Answer-first openings | 15 | The page and each H2/H3 section open with a direct sentence under ~25 words, not a wind-up. |
| Question-style headings | 12 | At least half the subheadings are phrased the way buyers ask (“How much does a WMS cost?”). |
| FAQ / Q&A blocks | 12 | Real questions answered in one or two sentences, ideally marked up as FAQPage. |
| Structured data (JSON-LD) | 12 | JSON-LD that says what the page is — Article, FAQPage, HowTo, Product or SoftwareApplication. |
| Scannable lists & tables | 12 | A list or table for every ~400 words; engines quote list items and table rows verbatim. |
| Heading hierarchy | 10 | Exactly one H1, and a subheading every 250–300 words. |
| Concise sentences & paragraphs | 10 | Sentences under ~20 words and paragraphs under ~120. |
| Concrete data & specifics | 9 | Numbers, percentages, prices and dates — about two per 100 words — with their sources. |
| Title & meta description | 8 | A 30–60 character title and a 70–160 character meta description. |
Bands: 80+ AI-ready · 60–79 solid · 40–59 needs work · under 40 invisible.
How easily an answer engine can lift a self-contained answer from a page and attribute it. ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews favour pages that state answers early, structure them under question-shaped headings, and back them with specifics.
Nine checks, each scored from 0 to 1 and weighted so the weights total 100. A check that cannot apply — schema or meta tags on pasted text — is left out and the score is taken over the checks that remain, so a draft is not marked down for missing head tags.
No. The score measures extractability, not authority. Engines still choose between extractable pages on reputation: links, brand mentions and how often independent sources repeat the same facts. A low score, though, usually means the page is passed over even when it is the best source.
The checker reads the HTML the server sends, as most answer-engine crawlers do. Copy rendered in the browser after load is invisible to it — and often to them. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes both.
Pasted content is scored in your browser and never leaves it. For a URL check, the page is fetched once to score it and nothing is kept.
