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September 23, 2026

Free AEO Audit Setup Guide

Welcome to AEOTrack!

This guide walks you through running the free AEO audit for a website and understanding the result.

What the free audit is

Enter a website on aeotrack.io/audit and in about a minute you get two things:

  1. An AI-readiness score (0–100) for the homepage. The page is fetched and graded on its content structure, schema markup, readability and how directly it answers questions, grouped into SEO, AI readiness and accessibility, with a short summary and a prioritised list of fixes. This grades the page itself.
  2. A real answer from real engines. AEOTrack writes one question the site's buyers would ask (for example "best motor trade insurance for a small garage") and asks two AI engines — normally ChatGPT and Perplexity, with web search on. The result says whether each engine named the brand and, if not, which brands it recommended instead.

No account is needed, and no email is asked for before you see the result.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Open the audit page

Step 2: Enter your website

  • Type the domain (for example yourcompany.com) and click the audit button. The homepage is audited whatever path you paste.
  • AEOTrack's own domains are refused; everything else is fair game.

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 score.

Step 4: Read the result

The result page is headed "Here's how yourdomain.com performs" and has three parts:

  • AI-readiness score — the 0–100 grade with its summary and the category breakdown.
  • What the engines said — one card per engine with a plain-English headline: "ChatGPT named Acme when asked …", "Asked …, Perplexity recommended X, Y and Z — not Acme", or "Gemini did not name Acme when asked …".
  • Priorities — the fixes that would move the readiness score most, in order.

Step 5 (optional): Add your work email to see the per-engine detail

The list of brands each engine named and the passage it wrote sit behind a work email form on the result. Adding your email unlocks that detail on the page. Nothing is emailed — the report stays on its page, and the address lets the team follow up and links the audit to a trial if you start one. The same address on the same audit gets the same report back; disposable addresses are not accepted.

Sharing the result

Every audit has its own public page at aeotrack.io/audit/{id}, with a preview card for Slack, LinkedIn and email. Use the Share button on the result or copy the address. The page shows the score, the question, the engines and who was named — nothing about who ran it, and no email address.

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 every week — start the 14-day trial. It needs no card.

From the audit to a trial

Click Start tracking these questions 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 every engine on the plan. Your first score is usually ready within ten minutes of signing up. The Complete AEOTrack Setup Guide covers what happens next.

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 ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, and Google AI Mode from Pro.

Is the audit free?

Yes. No account and no credit card.

Why is my readiness score different from my AI visibility score in the app?

They measure different things. The audit's readiness score grades 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 confidence range. A well-built page can still be invisible, and that gap is what tracking shows you.

Are there limits?

A few, to keep the audit free: five audits an hour from one network address, three a day per email, and a platform-wide pause on new audits when the day's AI budget is spent (cached results still open). The message on the page tells you which one you hit.

Do I need technical knowledge?

No. Enter the website; AEOTrack does the rest.

Need Help?

If you run into trouble with an audit, email support@aeotrack.io with the website address.