AEO Audit
A free Cloudflare-hosted auditor that shows what AI answer engines can retrieve, understand, and cite from any page.
Business benefits
- Shows teams what AI answer engines can actually retrieve from their public pages.
- Rolls repeated findings up to the template level so one fix can improve many URLs.
- Turns a sampled audit into a prioritised, practical improvement list.
Technical highlights
- Fetches raw HTML without JavaScript, cookies or login and refuses to grade unreadable responses.
- Separates training-crawler policy from the agents used to fetch live answers.
- Samples ten sitemap URLs across the estate and groups shared issues.
- Uses pacing, caching and fail-closed ceilings to keep public operating costs bounded.
Capabilities
Platform
Cloudflare Workers, edge caching, email alerts
Audit
HTML parsing, robots.txt, JSON-LD, sitemap sampling
AI
answer-engine access, bounded language-model summaries
AEO Audit makes the gap between a browser view and a crawler view visible. Give it a page and it shows the raw readable text, heading outline, declared entities, crawler permissions, and the changes most likely to improve the result.
The tool treats uncertainty as a result rather than hiding it. Challenge pages, origin errors, and other unreadable responses are explained without a fabricated score. Training crawlers and live answer-engine agents are assessed separately so an editorial choice is not confused with an accidental block.
The public service runs on Cloudflare Workers with sitemap sampling, shared-issue rollups, short-lived report caching, per-address pacing, account-wide ceilings, and a constrained model that summarises only the deterministic findings.
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