AI Citation Readiness Checker
Free, no signup. See whether a page gives an answer engine something clear to retrieve and cite. Citability is scored separately from retrieval evidence, and page content stays in your browser.
Before
A detailed page that is unindexed or answers only after a long introduction.
After
A retrievable page with a direct first answer, named evidence, and self-contained chunks.
| Signal | SEO | Answer readiness |
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Important | A retrieval gate |
| Direct answer | Helpful | Core citability input |
| Freshness | Contextual | Per-model multiplier |
Pasted content is analyzed in your browser. A URL is sent only to the protected fetch endpoint; paste content takes priority. After a successful URL check, only its domain is remembered locally.
| Bucket | Weight |
|---|---|
| Retrievability: rank / authority / indexation / freshness / technical / AI access | 30 / 20 / 15 / 15 / 10 / 10 |
| Citability: relevance / coverage / quotability / authority (information gain not evaluated — no comparison corpus; its weight redistributes across the rest) | 30 / 20 / 20 / 15 |
General preserves the base checks. Named profiles add their dated required signals; unavailable pack fields remain not evaluated.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing you paste is uploaded or stored. Page content and scoring stay in your browser. Anonymous run-level outcome counters may be used for aggregate research; URLs, domains, IPs, and identifiers are never included, and no statistic is released below 100 runs.
Sample report Built-in deterministic example
The Try an example button uses a dated, attributed paragraph answering “What does a canonical tag do?” and deliberately leaves all external evidence blank. Its honest output shape is:
Citability: a numeric local score
Retrievability: not evaluated — add rank, authority, and indexation
Citation likelihood: not computed
✓ Direct answer near the start
✓ Visible update date
✓ Author or reviewer signal
The example does not freeze a fabricated citation probability. The live deterministic engine calculates the citability number from the supplied paragraph while the retrieval gate remains closed.
How to use it
- Paste one page’s visible text or HTML and enter the exact question it should answer.
- Optionally enter rank, authority, and indexation evidence on a 0–100 scale. Leave unknown values blank.
- Select Grade page, or use the built-in example to see the output shape.
- Improve the weakest content checks, then re-run. Do not fill retrieval fields with guesses merely to obtain a citation-likelihood number.
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Local data
Saved targets, named lists, and recent check summaries remain only in this browser.
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What the results mean
- Citability — a weighted combination of lexical chunk relevance, answer coverage, quotability density, and supplied authority. Information gain needs a comparison corpus this browser-only tool doesn't have, so it is reported as not evaluated and its weight is redistributed across the checks that are actually measured, rather than assumed.
- Retrievability — a weighted score only when rank, authority, and indexation evidence are all present.
- Citation likelihood — retrievability multiplied by citability; not computed when the retrieval gate is incomplete.
- Pass / warning checks — visible content patterns for an early direct answer, update date, author or reviewer signal, plus selected profile signals.
- Consumer-product context — dated qualitative priors shown as context only; every product remains not evaluated because this checker did not query it.
How it works
The local engine extracts readable blocks, creates roughly 300-token chunks, ranks them against the target question with lexical retrieval, and scores answer-shaped sentences and quotability. The scoring module combines those values with the visible weights shown above. Unknown rank, authority, or indexation remains the literal state not evaluated; the multiplication step will not run until all retrieval evidence exists. Information gain is always not evaluated — this tool never compares your page against a corpus of competing pages, so it cannot measure whether your content adds anything new; that weight is dropped from the citability blend and the remaining weights are renormalized rather than assumed.
Features
- Text or HTML input processed in the browser.
- Separate citability and retrievability stages.
- Visible weights and a strict missing-evidence gate.
- Three actionable page checks plus a question-specific chunk match.
- Built-in example that demonstrates a deliberately uncomputed outcome.
Limitations
Lexical overlap misses synonyms and semantic matches. The content checks recognize simple wording patterns rather than meaning, and technical/access values currently use fixed assumptions. Rank, authority, and indexation are user inputs and are not verified. Information gain is never evaluated — this tool has no comparison corpus of competing pages, so it cannot check whether your content adds anything new; it does not fill that gap with a guessed number. Dated consumer-product profiles are contextual industry priors, not provider disclosures or observations from this run. The report cannot predict a citation for any query or product.
AI answers may continue to reflect cached or previously retrieved material for days to weeks after a fix. Recheck over time before treating an unchanged answer as proof that the fix failed.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between citability and retrievability?
Citability describes whether the pasted page contains a relevant, answer-shaped passage. Retrievability uses external evidence such as rank, authority, and indexationStoring a crawled page in the search index so it can appear in results. Crawled is not the same as indexed — Google selects what to keep, and indexing isn't guaranteed.. A page can write a strong answer that an engine never retrieves.
Why is citation likelihood not computed?
Citation likelihoodAn AI citation is the visible source link an AI answer engine shows next to its generated text — the clickable reference that credits the web page it used. A citation's presence is a separate thing from whether the cited page actually supports the statement, and from being retrieved (read behind the scenes) or merely mentioned (named without a link); citation is driven more by brand mentions and being retrievable than by traditional ranking. is gated. If rank, authority, or indexation is blank, the tool reports those inputs as not evaluated and refuses to turn missing evidence into a numeric prediction.
Is this an AI visibility score?
No. It is a transparent page-content heuristic plus optional user-supplied retrieval evidence. It does not observe an answer engine, prompt set, citation corpus, or live model behavior.
Why are consumer AI products listed as not evaluated?
The checker analyzes only the supplied page. The dated product profiles provide context, but no product-specific prompt or citation observation occurred, so the tool does not manufacture per-product scores.
What should I do with a warning?
Read the specific check, then improve the page only when the recommendation fits the query and remains accurate. A direct answer, meaningful date, and qualified author signal are useful when they are genuine, not when added mechanically.
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Common issues & how to fix them
- Warnings Direct answer is not near the start Fix: Place a concise, accurate answer immediately after the relevant question or section heading.
- Warnings Visible update date is missing Fix: Show a truthful published or updated date and revise the content when the subject has materially changed.
- Needs review Retrieval evidence is missing Fix: Supply rank, authority, and indexation evidence before treating retrievability as evaluated.
- Warnings Claims lack citation support Fix: Attach authoritative citations directly to factual claims that readers need to verify.
- Warnings Citability score is low Fix: Rewrite the strongest answer passage to be direct, self-contained, specific, and supported by evidence.