October 21, 2026
Run the free audit
What the free audit is
The free audit checks one website against one real buyer question. Enter a website and your work email on aeotrack.io/audit and in about a minute you see what two AI engines answered, in full, with every business they named and every page they read.
Two things run behind it:
- A real question to real engines. AEOTrack writes one question the site's buyers would ask (for example "best coffee subscription for home brewing") and asks two AI engines, normally ChatGPT and Perplexity, with their live web search on, the way your buyer asks.
- A site hygiene grade (0–100) for the homepage. The page is fetched and checked on its content structure, schema markup, readability and how directly it answers questions. The grade is labelled Site hygiene: a check of the homepage's code and content. It is not a measure of AI visibility.
The audit needs no account and no card. It does need your work email; disposable addresses are refused. A summary of the result is sent to that address once.
What you see after your email
For the one question, the result shows everything that was found, so you can check the verdict yourself in a minute:
- The question, word for word, and when it was asked.
- Each engine's full answer, as it was stored, with the model that wrote it. An answer longer than 6,000 characters is stored up to that point, and the result says so.
- Whether it named you. The verdict comes from the same matcher the app uses: your domain and the names your homepage gives the business (its title, its site name and its structured data) count as you. The form asks for no business name, so a name the homepage does not give is not looked for. A link to your site among the sources is not a mention, and a name the answer ties only to another company's website is not you.
- Every business it named, with a link to that business's own site when the answer cited one.
- Every page the engines read, with your own site's pages marked.
- Ask it yourself: a link that opens the same question in each engine that was asked: ChatGPT and Perplexity normally, and Claude when it stood in for one of them. Answers vary from one asking to the next; see Why results differ from your own chat.
What the free audit leaves to the trial
The audit is one question, asked once. The fixes and tracking are in the 7-day free trial (no card) and the paid plans:
| Section | In the free audit | In the trial or a paid plan |
|---|---|---|
| Did AI name you | Each engine's verdict and full answer, for one question on two engines | Your own questions on all five engines: 10 set up to start and up to 25 on the trial, checked daily while you use it |
| Named instead | Every business named for that question, with a link to its own site when the answer cited one | Every business, for each of your questions, over time |
| The pages AI read | Every page the two engines read for that question | Every page, for every question, ranked, with which ones to get onto first |
| Why AI does not name you yet | None: the answers and the pages read show who was named instead and where it came from | The reasons and the steps for your site, question by question |
| Site hygiene | The grade and how many checks passed in each category | Each issue with its fix |
| Your 6-week plan | None | The tasks in each week, built from your own answers, sources and competitors; see the Weekly plan |
| Score over time | None | Your score with its ± range, on every check |
The fixes are held back on the server: the free result never receives them.
Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Open the audit page
- Visit aeotrack.io and click Free audit, or go straight to aeotrack.io/audit.
Step 2: Enter your website and work email
- Type the domain (for example
yourcompany.com). The homepage is audited whatever path you paste. AEOTrack's own domains are refused; everything else is fair game. - Type your work email (for example
you@yourcompany.com). Both fields are required. Disposable or throwaway addresses are not accepted; if the address is refused, the reason is shown under the email field and the audit does not run until you correct it.
Step 3: Wait about a minute
While the audit runs you can watch the steps: fetching the homepage, analysing the page, writing the buyer question and asking the engines. Most audits finish in about a minute; a slow site or a slow engine can take two.
If the site blocks automated fetches, the audit stops with a walkthrough of what to unblock rather than a grade.
Step 4: Read the result
The result opens on the verdict for your site, then the question word for word, when it was asked and which engines were not asked. One card per engine follows: its verdict, the model, every business it named (with a link to its own site when the answer cited one), the opening of its answer with the full answer one click away, and an Ask ChatGPT yourself or Ask Perplexity yourself link. Under the cards is every page the engines read, with your own site's pages marked. Then comes one button into the trial, Track {your site} daily, free for 7 days, and Share this result. The site hygiene grade sits below, headed Site hygiene, not AI visibility, with how many checks passed in each category.
The site hygiene grade is a checklist of how easy the homepage is for AI engines to read. Whether they name you is in the answers above it, and, across all your questions, in the visibility score measured in the app.
Step 5: The copy in your inbox
A summary of the result is emailed once to the address you entered, so you have it later. The same address on the same audit gets the same result back.
Sharing the result
Every audit has its own public page at aeotrack.io/audit/{id}, with a preview card for Slack, LinkedIn and email. It shows the same result, including the answers, names and sources for the one question, but nothing about who ran it and no email address. Someone who opens your link is offered a free audit of their own site.
Running it again
Each website can be re-run once every 7 days. Inside that window, anyone who audits the same website gets the stored result back instantly, on the same page. To re-check sooner after making changes, and to see all five engines on your buyers' questions, start the 7-day free trial. It needs no card.
From the audit to a trial
Click Track {your site} daily, free for 7 days on the result and sign up. Onboarding skips the website scan, pre-selects the questions the audit generated and the competitors the engines named, and runs your first full check across all five engines. The audit's own question is pinned to the top of the question list and labelled From your free audit, so you can see its result across all five engines first.
Your first answers arrive about 7 minutes after you add your website (the median for new accounts), and the first-result email arrives at the same time. The Dashboard then leads with your top question, who AI names for it and each engine's answer. Your first 48 hours walks through what the Dashboard shows first; the Complete AEOTrack Setup Guide covers the setup steps.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which AI engines does the free audit ask?
Two: ChatGPT and Perplexity when both are available; Gemini or Claude fill in if one is not. The trial and every paid plan check all five engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok.
Is the audit free?
Yes. No account and no credit card. Your work email is required, and a summary of the result is sent to it once.
Can I check the result myself?
Yes, and that is the point of showing it whole. Read each engine's full answer and the pages it read, then use the ask-it-yourself link on each engine's card to put the same question to that engine (ChatGPT and Perplexity normally, Claude when it stood in). A fresh asking can name different businesses: answers vary, and your own chat has memory, a sign-in and a location. Why results differ from your own chat explains how to compare fairly.
The audit says I was not named, but my business is in the answer.
Open that engine's answer and look at how the name is written. The audit counts your domain and the names your homepage gives the business (its title, its site name and its structured data); the form asks for no business name. If the answer uses another name, such as an older name or an abbreviation, the audit has no way to know it. In the app you add it as a brand alias, and every stored answer is read again. A link to your site among the sources, with no name in the text, is not a mention; neither is a name the answer ties to another company's website. Still wrong? Email support@aeotrack.io with the audit link.
Why is my site hygiene grade different from my AI visibility score in the app?
They measure different things. The site hygiene grade says how well your homepage is built for AI engines to read. The AI visibility score in the app is measured from what the engines actually answer across all of your tracked questions, with a ± range. A well-built page can still be invisible, and that gap is what tracking shows you; not being named at first is the usual result, see Why AI does not name you yet.
The audit says competitors were named. What do I do first?
The engines named them because they are mentioned on the pages the engines read. Getting your business onto those pages is the first thing to work on; Get named: work the off-site plan explains how. The audit lists the pages read for its one question; the trial lists them for each of your tracked questions, ranked.
Are there limits?
A few, to keep the audit free: three websites a day from one network (a website you already checked that day opens again), ten audits a day per email address, and a pause on new audits if the day's AI budget is spent (results already on file still open). The message on the page tells you which one you hit.
Do I need technical knowledge?
No. Enter the website and your work email; AEOTrack does the rest.
What next
How the free audit, the 7-day trial and a paid plan compare, row by row: Free audit, trial or paid plan: what each one shows.
Need Help?
If you run into trouble with an audit, email support@aeotrack.io with the website address.